RE: Natural Selection Seems Insufficient
Yesterday at 1:37 pm
(This post was last modified: Yesterday at 1:43 pm by Angrboda.)
(Yesterday at 1:13 pm)Jal Wrote:(Yesterday at 1:01 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Question: if your thinking is invincible, why is there any possible reason to discuss your beliefs with other people?
Boru
There's a very subtle point left unspoken as yet. Conscience doesn't usually demand 100% certainty, except on questions of massive import (viz. Should I kill that person?)
The Inward Witness of the Holy Spirit spoke to the prophets with absolute clarity, that is, 100% certainty.
Not so with us regular Christians like me. In fact I self-published a theology book arguing that the New Testament, especially Paul, urges all Christians to achieve prophethood and considers them spiritually immature until then (e.g. 1Corinthians 14:1).
In other words the typical Christian, like me, believes the gospel at an invincible 90% certainty. (Most Christians like to pretend it's 100% certainty, which dishonesty frustrates me to no end).
Since I am not 100% certain, I need to be honest in my conversations with people, viz., "It's just my opinion that God exists and that the Bible is true, but I can't be totally sure."
So we're back to where we started. You complain about one kind of invisible forces that explains things parsimoniously, while believing in a less parsimonious invible God that you believe but do not know exists. I don't see how you've moved the ball at all. At the end of the day you have a double standard in spite of the inward witness. I don't need to have an inward witness to know that having a double standard violates any semblance of claim to be acting in good conscience that you might care to make.
Your previous response to the accusation of a double standard was to attempt to show that your dismissal of invisible forces was not arbitrary, a claim which failed on account of the reasons given by Hume and other defects. So it appears that we have come full circle.
Approaching truth with a double standard is not morally defensible as a matter of conscience, attributable to inward witness, or a structural aspect of a relationship to a heavenly father. This is a you problem.
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