(January 22, 2019 at 6:02 pm)Dr H Wrote:(January 20, 2019 at 4:37 pm)Aegon Wrote: I have a good friend who acknowledges that, logically, God's existence seems unlikely. But on an emotional level, she makes a conscious choice to believe ...
Yeah? How does that work?
Because I can't consciously force myself to believe something that I don't believe.
Either I believe it, or I don't.
I could choose to act as if I believed, for any of a variety of good or bad reasons.
Not quite the same thing.
I think what Aegon's friend meant is that if one were to go by logic and reasoning alone, then one would have to conclude that God's existence is unlikely. Nevertheless, his friend intuits that God exists and therefore continues to believe.
I see nothing confusing about that. And in fact, I find this to be rather honest, compared to all the theists who say there is evidence for God and/or that faith is somehow logical. Wish more and more theists were like the former instead of the latter.
