RE: Theist Posters: Why do you believe your God exists?
March 6, 2017 at 1:40 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2017 at 1:50 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
For me the question is not why I believe; but rather, how anyone could not believe. I have related my journey in detail elsewhere, Why I Believe in God. Lately I have been re-cultivating my existential awareness of reality in light of all I have learned from the patristic fathers. Martin Buber called it the I-Thou relationship. It seems to me that non-believers have either never experienced Being-As-Such as something sacred or have, but attribute it to something mundane. Many atheists will say that they know all the proofs and find them unconvincing. In contrast to them, I know all the objections and all seem either irrelevant or unreasonable in light of what seems so obvious to me.
It seems rather odd when a proposition like "'God exists' is true" can be considered either true or untrue because it is a belief, whereas its negation, "'God exists' is not true", cannot be either true or untrue because it isn't considered a belief.
(March 6, 2017 at 11:45 am)Stimbo Wrote: 5. Even were that true, this is a burden of proof shift coupled with an argument from ignorance.
It seems rather odd when a proposition like "'God exists' is true" can be considered either true or untrue because it is a belief, whereas its negation, "'God exists' is not true", cannot be either true or untrue because it isn't considered a belief.
