(September 24, 2019 at 5:07 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(September 24, 2019 at 4:31 pm)Lek Wrote: If I hear 100,000 people say they believe in God because they sought him and he impressed them with his existence, then I follow the same path and he impresses himself on me, then I believe them. When he still keeps me in the faith daily, I continue to believe.
And yet, you have never been able to provide an accurate method for telling the difference between:
1. someone who claims to have had a god reveal his existence to them, but misidentified an unusual, but otherwise natural experience as a god
2. someone who claims to have had a god reveal his existence to them, but they were actually delusional
3. someone who claims to have had a god reveal his existence to them, but had some malicious aliens cause him to have this experience
4. someone who claims to have had a god reveal his existence to them, and it was actually a god
I can't make that call for someone else. I may not really love my wife, but could just think I do because I want to be married, or it might just be an illusion. I can't prove to you or anyone else that I love her, but I know I do. I'm not going to leave her and come back if I manage to prove it by some other means. .