RE: What one thing would disprove Christianity to you?
December 27, 2012 at 12:45 am
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2012 at 12:46 am by Undeceived.)
(December 27, 2012 at 12:03 am)genkaus Wrote:Then they would no longer be nonmaterial. If some "miracle" force healed people every time you did a certain procedure, we would call that force natural. The scientific method measures repeatable phenomena. If an event is repeatable, it must be natural.(December 26, 2012 at 2:44 pm)Undeceived Wrote: No, really. I want to know how the scientific method tests nonmaterial entities. Could you offer an explanation?
By testing their effect on material things. D'uh.
(December 27, 2012 at 12:03 am)genkaus Wrote:The source is internal, either by God living in us or by our being made in the image of God. And we gain the fruits as we age. Does a person become more natural as they age, or less natural?(December 26, 2012 at 10:47 pm)Undeceived Wrote: I believe I answered this above, but to reiterate: We know the feelings come from God because they are not natural to the human psyche-- love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. We don’t create them, the Spirit of God living within us does.
Except, we do know that they are natural to human psyche because we have a pretty good idea regarding their sources withing the human mind and we have the ability to artificially manipulate them to some extent. If the source was anything external , then that would not be possible.