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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 6:25 pm)genkaus Wrote: How 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.
Actually, that’s not a good starting place since such a conception of God is as a thing among and apart from other things. A better starting point is where all monotheistic traditions agree; God in His fullness is ineffable. Just as God is not a thing among other things as mentioned above, knowledge of God is not some piece of information that you can store alongside other facts. It is like knowing oneself as a knower, a kind of gnosis that is immediate and intimate. People gain this type of knowledge about God from either general or special revelation or both.
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RE: What proof would it take for me to believe in god? - by Neo-Scholastic - September 19, 2014 at 3:47 pm

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