RE: Do you wish there's a god?
March 27, 2019 at 5:52 pm
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2019 at 5:56 pm by Acrobat.)
(March 26, 2019 at 11:23 am)Simon Moon Wrote: I have no barrier that prevents me from belief.
I am able to believe anything that is supported by: demonstrable and falsifiable evidence, reasoned argument, and valid and sound logic.
If your version of a god was able to meet the above criteria, I would be compelled (by my intellectual honesty) to believe it exists. But please note, just because I would then believe it exists (if the case for its existence met the above criteria), does not mean I would be compelled to worship it.
Of course you have barriers to beliefs, after all you’re not a robot, but a biological human being, in which our beliefs shape who we are and how we interact and relate to the world.
But here’s a question do you want to believe?
If so I think it’s pretty easy to believe that we’re a part of a created order, that life has a narrative arc, possessing a moral order, in which we recognize right and wrong, that the sheer beauty and excessiveness, complexity and depth of life, our desire for meaning, truth, goodness, a sense of something more, provide an adequate enough basis for anyone looking to believe to believe.
It’s only not sufficient for those who desire not to believe.