(July 21, 2022 at 10:52 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I can understand why someone who has had a profound religious experience such as attributed to Paul on the way to Damascus may find it convincing, but I don't understand why they think other people ought to find it convincing.
It's no different to me than a person very close to me who believes in ghosts (but not the christian god). She believes such because of experiences she has had personally of seeing/interacting (or at least she believes she has). That's fine for her, but as I've told her, does nothing for me. She's free to believe what she wants based on her powerful personal experience, and I also cannot disprove those experiences, but that's no reason for me or anyone else. To her credit, she accepts this. I wish the same could be said for theists amongst my friends and family who are convinced their personal testimony should be enough to bring me back on its own. That's actually why I started this thread as OP - to see if there were convincing apologetics I was missing, outside of personal experience.