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What proof would it take for me to believe in god?
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RE: What proof would it take for me to believe in god?
(September 17, 2014 at 12:03 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Finding evidence for something depends of the nature of that for which someone is looking, yes? In the case of God, people must decide what type of god. If the type of god you seek is just one thing among the multitude of things, then even I would say no amount of evidence would be sufficient. The god that appears before you could be like Marley’s ghost or some powerful extraterrestrial.

As a panentheist (not to be confused with pantheist) the God that I worship is more fundamental, similar to Plotinus’s One, Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover and Aquinas’s Necessary Being. This means that knowledge of God is deduced from reason applied to experience. As such God does not appear as any particular thing; but rather, is understood as the fullness of reality to which all particular things owe their existence.

ow about we start with the thing most gods seem to have in common - intelligent agents without material existence who can nevertheless affect the material. Once you have evidence that that is possible, then we can go further.
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RE: What proof would it take for me to believe in god? - by genkaus - September 17, 2014 at 6:25 pm

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