RE: Why is faith important?
March 12, 2013 at 5:24 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2013 at 5:26 pm by jstrodel.)
(March 12, 2013 at 5:15 pm)ThomM Wrote: IF EVERYONE who had such experiences came back with the SAME or VERY SIMILAR stories - that might be different.
And that fact that SO MANY people have had such testimonies that support their personal beliefs - points to the fact that it is self induced - and not the result of an outside reality.
You are basing your argument on the assumption that if people had contact with some powerful entity, there would be one entity, and it would be honest.
Do you have any evidence for this?
What about a different scenario. What if there were many different entities that were powerful and manifested themselves different ways, but their existence was not necessarily tied to being a deity but they were somewhat like human beings.
If this was true, then it is possible than the beings could lie and manipulate people.
Why believe that all spiritual beings are God?
But if you see a trend, where you see the vast majority of the world believe in one God, Yahweh, and you see human history seems to be dominated by believers of this religion, and you know the moral character of this being is pure, and you see the power of this being to do miracles, it is reasonable to believe that this being who represents himself as the one true being is.
The other beings are just other spirits that exist, but history declares that they are real and a major part of the human experience.
