RE: Why I'm not an Atheist and believe in what I believe.
June 9, 2012 at 11:28 am
(This post was last modified: June 9, 2012 at 11:37 am by Mystic.)
(June 9, 2012 at 11:07 am)Tempus Wrote: Clearly at least slightly confused - why use such an error prone method of communication?
I'm a little confused by what you meant here. Perhaps you can clarify.
Quote:Basically if a god exists it's a fact of reality.
And if we have knowledge of him, it's based on reality. This the point I am making.
If Ultimate Greatness exists, it seems all this spiritual knowledge I'm talking about is not only possible but logical to assume would exist with his existence.
For example, if there was a conclusive philosophical argument to prove God in 10 years...and you know for certain this was a true argument and every philosopher and logician agreed upon the argument. I don't think it would be rational to believe that God was not knowable until that argument came a long. I think it's more rational to believe God made his knowledge properly basic in the soul the same as morality, were he to exist.
As I stated earlier:
To assert God exists and has given us knowledge of himself, so I made right decision would be circular reasoning. To assert God doesn't exist or that he exists but hasn't given knowledge of himself, so I made wrong decision would be circular reasoning.
It rather just comes to honestly asking yourself if it's genuine knowledge. And here I respect either Atheist decision that we don't know or Theists decision that we do know.
I myself believe I do know.
(June 9, 2012 at 11:21 am)Ace Otana Wrote: I'm glad you use the words 'I think'. Many like to state it as if it's a fact.
Well I think it's a fact, but it seems impolite in a discussion forum in a debate to state things as facts, when the other side is debating it.
(June 9, 2012 at 11:21 am)Ace Otana Wrote: How can one know there is a god? How can you tell that it's not a delusion?
You see to me this is a fallacy. Their can be a relationship between God and the soul or mind or conscious that establishes this knowledge. It's possible.
The question should be, "Is there one?" Not "how can there be one".