RE: Pull up a chair
March 18, 2014 at 9:27 am
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2014 at 9:32 am by Fidel_Castronaut.)
(March 17, 2014 at 8:13 pm)discipulus Wrote: Everything you said about your wife being faithful, I can say about God being faithful to me, hence I trust Him.
IOW, I have no good reason not to trust Him. In a sense, you even exercise faith in believing she exists. Why? Because once again, you are trusting in and relying on your cognitive faculties and five senses to present you with an accurate rendition of what reality is despite NOT being able to prove said faculties are reliable.
The means by which you engage in your relationship with your wife, and the means by which I engage in my relationship with God are thus quite similar!hock:
You're bastardizing logic and you know it with the above word salad.
You're attempting to form an equivalence between the unknowable of an imagined deity (a god, whatever that is) and using the pretence of nobody being 100% sure that your sense of self and others is real to mean that not seeing god is exactly the same as seeing your [insert 'thing'].
You've created an experiment where there is no out aside "god is as imaginary as your wife, and because your wife is real then so is my god!", when actually it's just you shoehorning a deity into a twisted logic that ignores the EVIDENCE of a reality in which your god thing has absolutely no testable or verifiable data for it's existence. all that good ol' false equivalence prepositionalism again.
And besides, even if reality as we know it turns out to be an illusion, how does that make your version of whatever god it is you worship more real?