(September 20, 2014 at 9:44 am)C4RM5 Wrote:(September 20, 2014 at 9:29 am)Stimbo Wrote: So how might we go about finding out whether such claims are true?
Like I just said you can not really prove or disprove it as it is personal experience.
Really? You can't think of any way of telling truth from lie, or fact from fiction? And that's leaving aside basic burden of proof anyway.
This is all very strange, because you then go on to say that what convinces you of the biblical accounts of Jesus etc is evidence. Notwithstanding that the gospel writings are the claim, not the evidence (evidence in this context would be verifiable corroboration from contemporary third-party sources), do you not see an incompatibility between these two positions?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'