God, Energy and Matter

[Lek]

I think nobody could tell you how it is reliable because they can't demonstrate to you in words how they know.  Someone who has had faith in God and then had a mystical experience of God would say that their faith was shown to be true by that experience.  We really don't know if faith gives us knowledge until we encounter the God in which we have faith.  So, as far as it applies to your criteria, the answer is I don't know.  If you're using your criteria you won't gain knowledge of God or the supernatural.  You've already ruled it out.

So...

You do understand, that if you can't demonstrate how something is reliable, that would make it.... wait for it... unreliable.

If a god exists, and has the ability to demonstrate to me that it does exist, then it would certainly have the ability to know how to do so, despite my criteria.

So, either it doesn't have the ability to demonstrate it exists, *doesn't care to demonstrate to me it exists, or does not exist.


*Despite several decades of being a sincere believer, praying for this god to let me know it exists, reading dozens of books on apologetics, etc, etc,