(October 20, 2015 at 5:02 pm)Faith No More Wrote:(October 20, 2015 at 3:48 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: For God to meaningfully show himself, wouldn't it have to be supernaturally for anyone to accept it? But if it is supernatural, aren't we even less likely to accept it? It's a kind of conundrum. I see this man in the room, floating off the floor, knows things about me and then shows my deceased relative to me. I either accept that this is God and he is real or I accept that I've gone barking mad. If i tell others, they would of course assume I'd gone barking mad. So if we are overly skeptical of the supernatural how could a God meaningfully reveal himself?
That's the burden people claiming the supernatural have to carry. There's no way to determine between the supernatural and some unknown natural cause. Since we know the natural exists, we have to make less assumptions to accept that it is an unknown cause.
On top of that, we know from neuroscience that the brain is highly flawed and can have severe problems parsing reality. Any experience of the supernatural needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt.
That's precisely my point. So how could God meaningfully reveal himself to a non-believer with everything you just mentioned? Couldn't whatever you describe just be explained away?
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