RE: Theists, what does faith mean to you?
August 14, 2015 at 9:21 am
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2015 at 9:42 am by Tartarus Sauce.)
(August 13, 2015 at 7:26 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I can know a writing is beyond my own capability, despite being able to appreciate it's greatness. If this is true, why can't I know a writing is beyond all human capability just because I can appreciate it (to a degree).
Because, as I said in my previous post, appreciation is not the determinating factor of possible authorship, capacity for thought is. If the idea can be communicated and comprehended by a human mind, it is possible for it to be thought about by a human mind. If a human mind can think about an idea, it is wholly within the realm of possibility that the idea was generated within a human mind.
Is there a single idea within the Quran that transcends our capacity for thought? You couldn't even point to it if there was one, it would be completely undetectable or incomprehensible to you. Every belief you've generated about Islam are from ideas you've pondered over with your own thoughts. You attached thoughts to these ideas because you understood them and crafted your own interpretations. Could you do that with an idea we as humans couldn't even comprehend?
Unless you're willing to argue for other criteria that can limit the capacity for human authorship, stating that it is impossible for a book full of ideas we can comprehend and think about to have originated from a human source is not only lacking in supporting evidence but is also a nonsensical and self-defeating proposition.
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