I'm a little late to the party, but I'll respond.
Intuition is horrible justification to believe something. People have intuitions constantly, they almost always fail to model reality.
Think of all the ridiculous claims that people believe based on intuition instead of demonstrable evidence, reasoned argument and valid logic. Their intuition is just as strong as yours.
Major logic fail. You're assuming the conclusion in your premise.
Well, at least you admit that you believe because it makes you feel good. I guess that some form of honesty. It's certainly not intellectual honesty.
Some of care too much whether our beliefs are true, or at least likely to be true. The best way to assure that, is by basing them on demonstrable evidence, reasoned argument & valid logic.
Sure it's baseless. Your basing your belief on a feeling, not evidence.
No, the best argument to falsify it is that there is no evidence and reasoned argument to support your intuition based belief.
You haven't provided any knowledge of 'God'. All you've done is told us you have a 'feeling'. Your claim that you have intuitive knowledge that 'God' exists is meaningless.
(June 6, 2012 at 4:37 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: In different threads, I'm always asked, to why I believe what I believe. I think it comes down to an intuition I have about God that I feel is genuine knowledge. This is what it really comes down to.
Intuition is horrible justification to believe something. People have intuitions constantly, they almost always fail to model reality.
Think of all the ridiculous claims that people believe based on intuition instead of demonstrable evidence, reasoned argument and valid logic. Their intuition is just as strong as yours.
Quote:Now if God exists, to me, it makes sense that he would give us intuitive knowledge of himself rather then make it into some philosophical argument most of humanity is unaware of.
Major logic fail. You're assuming the conclusion in your premise.
Quote:Now I believe I have this intuitive knowledge and that I am holding on to it, because I chose to.
Well, at least you admit that you believe because it makes you feel good. I guess that some form of honesty. It's certainly not intellectual honesty.
Some of care too much whether our beliefs are true, or at least likely to be true. The best way to assure that, is by basing them on demonstrable evidence, reasoned argument & valid logic.
Quote:So while it is a choice, I don't believe it's a baseless one.
Sure it's baseless. Your basing your belief on a feeling, not evidence.
Quote:The best argument to falsify it, is the problem of evil/suffering. However, I've explained in a theodicy thread, why I don't think this disproves a benevolent Creator.
No, the best argument to falsify it is that there is no evidence and reasoned argument to support your intuition based belief.
Quote:I also feel aside from this, there is other arguments that either strengthen that their is a powerful creator or prove ultimate greatness exist. There is also other intuitions that strengthen belief in a Creator.[quote]
if you're referring to Kalam's Cosmological arguemtn, T.A.G. or the ontological argument, they all fail. They all contain at least one logical fallacy that invalidate them.
[quote]But I would say none of those are reasons, and I feel at the end, the strength of faith in God is really to rely on that properly basis knowledge of God and to be patient with it.
You haven't provided any knowledge of 'God'. All you've done is told us you have a 'feeling'. Your claim that you have intuitive knowledge that 'God' exists is meaningless.
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.
