(February 11, 2011 at 7:35 pm)Matthew Wrote: I believe that a basic belief in God is rational because it is justified externally by God's revelation rather than internally by the reasons one has for holding it. So basic belief in God is not unsupported - it is supported by God and not by arguments.As a xtian theist, your claim is not that there is this anonymous god but the xtian god. I cannot see how it is a basic belief given that many different gods have apprently revealed themselves. Is belief in Ganesh also properly basic, he is well known to the personal experiences and lives and hindus? We know we can apply such beliefs to nature becuase the nature is at least part of existence (and I would argue the totality). Self evidently existence, exists; but that is very far from being the case with a god.
It is a belief that is arrived at immediately by God's revelation rather than by argument.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
