| Secular Agnosticism | | | | own motive and desire to be right in the sight of God. |
| There are two contexts to this word that are | | | | Religious Agnosticism is Not Orthodox |
| generally understood. One makes reference to those | | | | While fully acceptable to the New Paradigm |
| who believes that it is impossible to know anything for | | | | Neo-Evangelical take-over of Christendom, |
| a certainty, and particularly whether or not there is a | | | | Agnosticism is not acceptable to Historic Christian |
| God. | | | | Orthodoxy. This belief takes from the elders of |
| | | | the Church the right to speak with authority or to |
| The other is within Christianity and identifies that person | | | | become involved in discipline or enforcement on |
| who believes that since truth is in the spirit and not the | | | | matters involving sanctification in the corporate life of |
| letter, it is impossible to know for a certainty what a | | | | the Church. Orthodoxy believe that it is the spirit and |
| commandment means in terms of specifics. Example: | | | | not the letter of truth that is important, modesty has |
| The Bible says, "Let the woman be modestly | | | | obviously changed through the centuries, and that the |
| appareled." Since modesty means something different | | | | utmost in liberty should be granted to the woman and |
| in terms of style and length of dress in every culture | | | | her husband or father, or whoever else is legitimately |
| and age, we may teach this commandment as true, | | | | involved in her decision making. Even so, the spirit of |
| but we may never know for sure when a woman is | | | | truth is not agnosticism, it means something real and |
| modest or immodest in her dress. This must forever | | | | tangible, and there are times when it is clear that the |
| remain an issue of conscience for the individual | | | | spirit of truth has been violated. |
| woman, who herself can never know anything but her | | | | |