(February 8, 2015 at 5:56 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote: So Lek, please do tell how you *know anything whatsoever* about anything outside out little scientific boxes? Anything at all...
Nobody "knows" anything. We think we know because we can experience it with our senses and others can experience it as well. It may be something totally other than what we have determined it to be, but we don't know that because our physical senses are limited. We do have the ability to reason about things and develop beliefs based on that reasoning. I have reasoned because of statments in my last post that something exists beyond the natural world - therefore the supernatural. I don't "know " this, but I believe it, and I live my life as if it is true. Also, because of what I stated in the last post, I believe that the universe was created from something supernatural. I have read the bible, which was written over a period of centuries by numerous authors, who carried on the story of a coming messiah who would save us from the evil world in which we exist. I know about no other religion that exists or has existed that the same amount of continuing revelation.
Lastly, I myself have always been interested as much in the "whys" as in the "hows". I firmly believe that there is reason for our existence and the existence of the cosmos. Science doesn't answer that question and leaves me deeply unsatisfied. I'm not content to believe that we are just born for no reason and die and that's it. I do care about the reason why we exist in this sometimes happy and sometimes happy world. One thing I "know" is that no one is always happy and content.
We can't verify what I know until we die. I sense God being with me, but I also can't prove that till later also. Based on my prior statements I believe that's reasonable, and that's what I'm going with. Just like you guys say - "we don't know now, but I'm confident that someday it will be proven." I do have one consolation that you don't have, though, and that is that you'll never be able to say "I told you so" if you're right, but I will. Otherwise we're all don't exist anymore, so who cares? There could be some great scientific discovery that could change my outlook, but I'm definitely not changing now.
