RE: Why knocking is so important.
August 12, 2014 at 11:36 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2014 at 11:56 am by Simon Moon.)
(August 12, 2014 at 11:23 am)Drich Wrote: Ah, no. A/S/King is an objective process that has one examine and quest for the truth of God.
If I do not currently presuppose a god exists, how am I to 'examine and quest for the truth of God'?
How is this any different than 'faking it 'til I make it'?
The biggest problem with your A/S/K 'method' is that no matter how much we tell you that we tried, you have a built in, ready to go reason why it didn't work.
"You didn't try for long enough"
"You weren't sincere enough"
Or whatever...
Since you are so convinced, it has to be something we are doing wrong, and nothing to do with the real possibility that you are simply wrong, and that you have been convinced for bad reasons.
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.
