(March 16, 2020 at 2:22 pm)Drich Wrote: don't need to... falsifiability demonstrable claims are reserved for science projects. God is not a science project. the study of God has it's own set of balances and standard that have to be met. As no one can summon God or make him appear on demand. However God himself has promised to respond to those who meet him on his terms. This can be actively proven in the fact that only 4% of the world's population think as you do. At some level across the world and generations people have reached out and someone or something has reached back on some level.
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This is one of the main flaws with A/S/K in the first place.
How am I supposed to 'meet him on his terms' if I do not see any rational reasons to believe 'he' exists in the first place? You are asking me to force myself to believe something, I am unable to believe.
But even if I am able to convince myself that I do believe Yahweh/Jesus exists, and I then perform A/S/K, how do I know any results I receive are not just confirmation bias?
Sorry, but any god worthy of that title, would know better than to require that bit cognitive dissonance. He would know A/S/K is lousy epistemology, and would be indistinguishable from gullibility.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
