(July 20, 2012 at 1:24 am)Jeffonthenet Wrote:(July 20, 2012 at 1:20 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: You ignore the possibility that you could simply be mistaken. Honesty doesn't guarantee that you are correct. No skeptic is going to take only your word for anything out of the ordinary, no matter how honest he believes you to be.
If I had an atomic watch it was highly unlikely that I was mistaken. Likewise, it could be that one could have a bona-fide experience of God and with it would come the certainty similar to that of having an atomic watch. I cannot produce the experience and likewise I cannot produce the watch.
So with the possibility that you might be lying, or simply mistaken, seeing that you are unable to demonstrate your claim, why should someone who disagrees with you believe your claim?