(September 21, 2015 at 9:15 am)emjay Wrote: @Rational AKDhello. the argument presented isn't necessarily an argument for Christianity. really it's an argument for monistic idealism, though a separate and easy argument can show how idealism implies theism. but that's the most you can take the argument's implications. this argument didn't convince me to become a Christian. I was first a Christian, but I was a dualist. this argument convinced me to become an idealist and abandon dualism. I have separate reasons that I am a Christian, which are off the topic of discussion.
Hello. I think your theories are very interesting but how are they connected with Christianity? It's one thing to say we're all figments of God's imagination and living in a simulation, but why this God and this religion rather than any other? I guess what I'm asking is which came first in you, Christianity or this theory?
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
-Galileo
-Galileo