As many people have said in this thread, it isn't that our presuppositions are blinding us from the truth, it's that the claim is not verifiable and so ultimately unprovable for us.
I'm an atheist, but if there were evidence or proof of God out there somewhere, I'd want to hear it. I don't like being wrong, and I certainly don't want to be wrong about this if my "eternal soul" is at stake.
The problem with such personal claims is that they don't apply to me whatsoever. If a person came to me and said they could talk to God, I have no way of determining whether they are actually talking to God or just making things up (or being delusional). Until we have the ability to read thoughts (which is probably possible in the future), we have no way of testing the claim.
I'm not going to believe something on faith alone, because I see faith as ultimately pointless. It might be the truth, sure, but then it might not be. At least with testing claims we can verify what is true and what isn't.
I'm an atheist, but if there were evidence or proof of God out there somewhere, I'd want to hear it. I don't like being wrong, and I certainly don't want to be wrong about this if my "eternal soul" is at stake.
The problem with such personal claims is that they don't apply to me whatsoever. If a person came to me and said they could talk to God, I have no way of determining whether they are actually talking to God or just making things up (or being delusional). Until we have the ability to read thoughts (which is probably possible in the future), we have no way of testing the claim.
I'm not going to believe something on faith alone, because I see faith as ultimately pointless. It might be the truth, sure, but then it might not be. At least with testing claims we can verify what is true and what isn't.
