(July 29, 2016 at 11:57 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote:(July 29, 2016 at 11:54 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: Oh, yes, you can, because that is exactly what happens when you don't understand something. You don't (yet) believe in it.
If you don't understand what "God" means but it means "mount Everest" then that would be a definition of God you believed in before you knew what it meant, because you've always believed mount Everest exists.
Calling mount Everest a God however, isn't something you would do, so when asked "do you believe in any gods?", you wouldn't answer that in the affirmative if you didn't think of mount Everest as of a God(or anything else, for that matter), no matter how the questioner thinks of the same mountain.
