(November 21, 2011 at 5:16 pm)Rayaan Wrote:(November 21, 2011 at 5:01 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: Do you understand Rayaan that a theist can only believe, or claim to know or think he knows god/allah is real? You probably do.
No, a theist can only believe at the extent of his own intuition and inductive reasoning, but he cannot know that God is real.
Of course, this might make sense to himself while others may think that he is delusional.
(November 21, 2011 at 5:03 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Just out of curiosity, do you apply the same standard to gnostic theists?
Yeah, because I don't think that any theist actually know that God exists (unless maybe if they saw Him or something, which I can't prove either).
It must be quite unnerving to believe in god all the time yet not know for certain he's real. I'd be constantly worried I was wasting my life away believing something that turned out not to be true.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
