RE: What would change your mind?
February 21, 2017 at 8:54 pm
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2017 at 8:58 pm by Kernel Sohcahtoa.)
(February 21, 2017 at 12:46 pm)hyperchord24 Wrote: I hope this is the right place to post this and I wonder if the subject has been broached before. What could God do to prove his existence? Everyone runs around saying, I can't see him, so sorry. If you asked a christian, they'd say the bible proves his existence. Forget that. What sort of things would he have to do to prove it. Show his face from the heavens? Flood the earth? End all suffering? What could make you change your mind?
Greetings, hyperchord24, and welcome to AF. IMO, I'd also ask the following question: at what point is a belief system no longer valid, and when does it become a projection of someone's personal truths and thought patterns?
Now, in the spirit of the bolded examples in the quote above, suppose such a lifeform showed up on Earth and was able to do all of the things in your post along with doing anything that it wanted (it could tap into your brain and know every thought that you've conceived of in your lifetime): it could perform any miracle, whether it be biblical, scientific, or things that we haven't even conceived of yet. Now, what if this life-form said that it was not a God and that the religious beliefs of humanity's theists are wrong: it could actually demonstrate this with its knowledge, advanced abilities, and etc. Furthermore, suppose it told humanity that humanity's way of understanding reality was extremely limited but it was willing to teach them to think in new ways. Collectively, do you think humanity would be open-minded enough to learn from it and put their pre-conceptions on the sideline?
