(October 9, 2013 at 9:12 am)enrico Wrote: The only way out this problem is to be able to control your mind so hallucination and false truth are not allow to control you
Describe an infallible method for determining what is accurately perceived divine communication and what is hallucinated. Without such a method, you've just taken the problem for a short, circular walk.
The question illustrates the problem relying on personal revelation poses for the faith full. It's personal, and so it's useless to anyone else as a yard stick for truth, and might just as well not get mentioned. That is is mentioned on a regular basis indicates few theists stop to think about the implications of taking seriously any messages coming in on the spiritual antenna - how do you know it's real and how do you know, if it's real, that it's from a deity, and if it is from a deity, how do you know it's from your particular deity?
"It told me it was God, my God, and it said it must be true because my God doesn't lie."
Fail. Try again.
Sometimes people answer the Crocodillemma in the affirmative - that they would kill, and those people scare the pants off me, but at least they are not hypocrites. Thankfully, most people answer in the negative, but this allows me to dismiss any weight they claim to put on personal revelation as a plank in their faith.
