RE: About other gods-question for theists
June 27, 2014 at 11:58 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2014 at 12:09 pm by Jenny A.)
(June 27, 2014 at 10:40 am)orangebox21 Wrote:(June 23, 2014 at 11:10 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Yes but why believe the Bible instead of the Koran? Or the Book of Morman?A good question.
From a spiritual perspective, God has elected me, regenerated me, and given me belief. This is nothing I did on my own, nor nothing I deserve, but rather it is the work of God that no man may boast.
I think that what you have there is self delusion. Those who believe in Allah, are similarly self deluded. The point is that those who think they have found internal confirmation of god, are only seeing what they want or expect to see. That's why Muslims, Jews, Mormons, Christians, Hindus, etc. all look inside and come to such very different conclusions about god.
Quote:From a logical perspective, the Bible, the Koran, and the book of Morman all claim the Biblical God to be true. The Koran and the book of Morman then go on to deny the truth of the Biblical God. The Bible remains logically consistent with it's position, the Koran and the book of Morman do not.
This boils down to:
A says B is right.
C says B is right.
A and C are sometimes wrong.
Therefore B is right.
That's nonsense.
It's also based on a couple of false premises. First neither the Koran nor the Book of Mormon say that the Bible in inerrant, only that within certain limits it contains truth. Mormons say the Bible is right insofar as it correctly translated and preserved over time. The Koran is less kind.
Second, The Bible is full of logical contradictions. And the Old Testament is largely negated by the New, or at least so many Christians who don't want to stone rape victims tell me.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.