(August 19, 2014 at 12:42 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: IMO, the Word, or Divine Logos, is not a set of texts. It is the living and primary emanation from the First Principle. Reason applied to experience points to the First Principle. When someone understands the First Principle, then they can recognize the correspondences between spiritual and physical reality in any text that has them. The only test is someone's ability to discern spiritual truths.
Provide evidence that this is nothing more than your confirmation bias.
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.
