(May 24, 2017 at 2:27 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:
SteveII Wrote:[to Harry NEvis] Well, instead of sitting on your hyper/pseudoskeptical ass and simply asserting millions of people's experiences are not real, why don't you find someone who has experienced suffering and God's peace and ask them. Find an article somewhere and post a comment.
He says, with no consciousness of irony, while dismissing the experiences of the 5 billion people who aren't Christians....
Ad populum, appeal to pity, and plain old wrong.
I am not sure that most other religions have a personal God wishing to have a one-on-one relationship with you. Setting that aside, how do you know that the experiences of a personal relationship is the same or similar between religions? Christians believe that we have the knowledge of God imprinted on our souls (Rom. 1.20; 2.14-15). Experiences in other religions would have this common denominator.
I can see how a skeptic would not be able to distinguish between different religions, but that in no way implies that a Christian can't have an authentic experience that give him/her warrant to think their belief is true (properly basic).
