RE: The Problem of Imperfect Revelation: Your Thoughts?
July 17, 2013 at 3:55 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2013 at 3:56 pm by Simon Moon.)
(July 17, 2013 at 3:18 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: You're jumping the gun a little Simon. Objective evidence is impossible, subjective evidence is not. If you research metaphysics you may see that this is fundamental.
Subjective evidence as in, "I had a personal experience with God"?
If so, that is the most unreliable type of evidence.
Not to mention that people that believe in different gods than you, claim to have subjective evidence for their gods.
Quote:Unlike most other faiths Christianity is based upon logic and reasoning. You have evidence in the form of biblical text.
If by logic and reasoning you mean the philosophical arguments for the existence of god (Kalam, ontological, teleological, etc), I'm not impressed, they are all fallacious.
The Bible isn't evidence. The Bible is the claim.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
