Amazingly I still have the will to live!
(joke)
With respect, you're quoting from the atheist common book of cliches without addressing what I actually said, IMO.
Cherry picking would be a problem if you ascribed to a particular belief and then stepped outside the acceptable parameters of that belief. I don't do that.
You speak about personal opinion and experience, and later on feelings. I wasn't talking about any of those.
Personal opinions: For the opinion to be personal it'd have to be unique to you. As the rationalisations are common to all Christians (I can only speak with authority for Christianity), then this doesn't hold true.
Personal opinions and experience not being evidence: You asked about reasoning other than evidence, so I don't know why you're bringing that up again.
Feelings: Feelings may be 'nice' but I consider them to be of no importance.

With respect, you're quoting from the atheist common book of cliches without addressing what I actually said, IMO.
EvF Wrote:Q. What other rational reason(s) other than evidence (if there was any) are you thinking of, for belief in God?
fr0d0 Wrote:A. All religions postulate definitions of God/ god/ gods/ etc. All these are independent reasoning around the subject. Weighing up those definitions, you can work out which seem true to you, and which don't. Some ideas are easily discarded, some you can stack on the maybe pile, and some you can keep as solid reasoning. Now I've struggled through this process, and come to the conclusion that although the Christian Bible is entirely interpreted by humans, so potentially flawed. I find it 100% solid reasoning, so far.
Cherry picking would be a problem if you ascribed to a particular belief and then stepped outside the acceptable parameters of that belief. I don't do that.
You speak about personal opinion and experience, and later on feelings. I wasn't talking about any of those.
Personal opinions: For the opinion to be personal it'd have to be unique to you. As the rationalisations are common to all Christians (I can only speak with authority for Christianity), then this doesn't hold true.
Personal opinions and experience not being evidence: You asked about reasoning other than evidence, so I don't know why you're bringing that up again.
Feelings: Feelings may be 'nice' but I consider them to be of no importance.