(January 9, 2017 at 12:19 am)Godschild Wrote: I haven't heard from any of them as I have the God of the Bible. So, no. If there were other gods I would expect competition for me. My God has said, there are no other real gods and since I've not heard from any others I have no reason to doubt.
If people only ever 'heard' from one god, then such private and personal experiences would convince everyone. But so many people also have no reason to doubt, yet believe in a different god, or a different version of your god. It seems that there is a lot of competition out there. I am confident that very few of the people who have such a firm conviction are expecting to hear from any other gods, which is curious in light of the many different experiences and outcomes.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould