RE: In need of a more humbleness. Why condemning the Theistic position makes no sense.
September 21, 2014 at 1:48 am
(September 20, 2014 at 9:46 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: But the Atheist position is not that there is no God. It's that they don't believe in God. So from this stance, you would have to either claim:
1) God doesn't exist
2) If he exists, he has not made himself known to anyone.
And if you want to remain logical, you would have to prove these.
Now believers claim to know God via faith, but how does an Atheist know 1 or 2? Via faith? no. So it makes no sense.
Therefore it makes more sense to keep one's stance and keep an open mind that a Theist might have a legitimate experience.
That would be a more humble approach and it's the better one in my honest opinion.
My bolding. I can't follow you that far but I can grant that it is for you to decide if the experience is legitimate. I will offer no rebuke given that I have no perspective from which to trump your own. Quite the contrary really.
