RE: If there was a loving God, would you accept him?
April 22, 2014 at 3:59 pm
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2014 at 4:14 pm by Coffee Jesus.)
(April 21, 2014 at 3:58 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I have a question along these lines. Say our knowledge of God was an innate type, would you accept it as credible, or would you only take his existence seriously if he proved his existence in some empirical fashion?
I think this is the question I asked myself when I left Islam. Do I need proof outside innate experience or is innate knowledge a possible proof of his existence? I chose the latter. Then I asked myself to whether I had this knowledge or not.
You have innate knowledge of your own mind, and you have empirical, logical knowledge of the world of the senses—the world of space, time, and causality. The only things we understand intuitively, like time and space, are the things our ancestors needed to understand to survive, but it turns out that our intuitive understanding of time and space is really an oversimplified best-fit model.
You might find this interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regress_problem