RE: Toaster strudel alliance takes on drugs, atheists and liberalism
March 17, 2013 at 5:32 pm
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2013 at 5:40 pm by Ryantology.)
(March 17, 2013 at 4:56 pm)jstrodel Wrote: That is what you think, from your understanding of theology.
I disagree. God is knowable. When two people who are spiritually mature talk to each other, you can see the Holy Spirit flowing. God's presence can be clearly known.
Of course, you may object that I can create a concept of "evidence" in which your beliefs cannot exist. That may be so, but I care very little about that standard of evidence, except as it relates to your soul.
Any information I have that I cannot conclusively verify by sources independent of myself is not 'knowledge'. I can verify that others have had experiences which they may describe as similar to mine, but no more than that. It fails as proof on several levels:
1. It does not verify the existence of any god.
2. It does not verify the existence of your specific god.
3. It does not verify that any such episode is communication from any god.
4. It does not verify that any such episode is communication from your specific god.
5. It does not verify that any such episode is communication of any kind.
6. It does not verify that any such episode cannot be caused by else entirely.
7. There are alternative explanations which can be verified scientifically.
8. The contents of your message will certainly be contradicted by other, similar claims.
9. How can anything be known which cannot be physically observed and is so vastly contradictory?
There is no 'knowledge' here, and to attach that label to your stupid, crazy delusions is an insult to everyone who actually labors to discover the truth.