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there is a Jain theological term, Anekantevada, ... which means "no one correct point of view"... that every attempt at verbalization of the Truth, is but a partial truth..
Anekantavada... goes hand in hand,... in a way with Kurt Godel... the mathemetician... and a lot of ways of thinking that have come out of modern quantum physics.... to paint a picture that... there is not a one aristotelian truth...syllogistically arrived at...as Aquinas or Descarte invisioned
just as Euclidean Geometry, Hyperbolic Geometry, and Ellliptical Geometry,... are mutually contradictory... and yet coexist.. and all adequately describe space... within the limitation of accuracy of measuring instruments...
just as light itself is a self-contradictory thing which behaves as waves and as quanta or particles....
for the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh... and others... dogmatic theological systems... are no different than geometrical axiomatic systems.... they contradict one another... they are internally consistent in the context of their own assumptions... and they co-exist with one another
a very wise person once explained to me (when I was 25,... and firmly convinced that Greek Orthodox Old-Calendarist Christianity was the One true faith... and that protestants and catholics were demonicly deluded)... this wise person explained... in essence...
that to actually understand a religion... (if for example one claims an interest in understanding Hinduism).... one must actually BECOME a devout Hindu...... or Moslem (if we are talking Islam).... but doesnt that make a strange kind of sense....
perhaps you have heard of the Sufi religion... Sufis consider themselves Moslems in every sense of the word... but Orthodox (non-sufi) moslems consider them heretics... and blasphemers....
the basic Orthodox moslem objection is that the Sufi seeks to realize a complete union with Allah... while still in this life,.. in this human body...
once... a Sufi saint.... who had realized such a union, and exclaimed out-loud "I AM ALLAH".... and was condemned to death by the Orthodox moslems... for blasphemy... but as he was led to the gallows ..
he calmly said to his executioners... "If I had had your experiences... i would have no other alternative than to execute a person such as myself... but... if you had had my experiences... you would have no other alternative than to exclaim 'I AM ALLAH'
so, you can see, even in this Sufi martyrs words...
something of the Kurt Godel type of...
finite axiomatic system co-existance
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