RE: the case against the case against god
December 8, 2014 at 4:01 pm
(This post was last modified: December 8, 2014 at 4:02 pm by Mystic.)
(December 7, 2014 at 11:56 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(December 7, 2014 at 1:53 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Even if there isn't a consensus on how to approach spirituality, it doesn't follow there is no way to know something via spiritual experience.
No one has ever been able to give a coherent definition for the term 'spiritual' or 'spirituality'. Are you up to the task?
How would you go about testing whether some knowledge gained through a 'spiritual' experience is true? How could you tell you are not just fooling yourself? How would you know that you are not just misinterpreting some natural brain state?
A coherent definition for the term doesn't need to be used, because we know what is meant by it's use over time like how we learned most words (not through a dictionary). Some things like love are experienced and are better known through experience, and can't really be put in precise words.
You're always assuming that God doesn't exist when you ask these questions how we would know. If God doesn't exist, there obviously would be no way to know as it would be a falsehood. In the case of God existing however, it seems odd, to say, it's impossible that he gives us knowledge of himself or makes us able to witness the spirit existing.
If a spirit exists, why wouldn't it be possible for us to know we are beyond material and aren't just a product of chemical reactions inside the mind?
That would be a reality of who we are, why wouldn't be able to recognize that reality of who we are?
