Theist Posters: Why do you believe your God exists?

[Mister Agenda]

But the negation is another proposition.

1. Proposition - gods exists
2. Proposition - gods do not exist

I do not have to take the contrapositive position when responding to the first.

There is only one proposition on the table. What is your stance with respect to P1, "God exists"? Either P1 is true or P1 is not true. As per the law of the excluded middle you have only two choices.

You keep mentioning that law like you understand it but you keep misusing it. It is true that gods either exist or do not. It is not true that I have to take the position that gods do not exist if I don't take the position that gods do exist. It is true that you are in possession of all your limbs and extremities or you are not, that does not mean I have to take the position that you do not if I don't take the position that you do. I don't know which is true so I don't have to take either position, and furthermore, I shouldn't take either position. I may set odds based on something like demographics to say it's 98% likely that you aren't missing any limbs or digits, but to assert it as true would be gambling, not logic.

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Not in the the least. The correct term would be foundationalism. Rational inquiry requires a commit ment to the efficacy of resson that is not itself justified by reason.., I.e. faith. Boru was ridiculing the idea that faith has no place in reasoning when if fact relying on reason is itself based on trust.

I'm not big into commitment. Logic earned my trust by being useful. Using faith and trust interchangeably in a thread about why people believe God exists smacks of equivocation.