RE: Is God really real or are people simply deluded?
March 12, 2015 at 11:02 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2015 at 11:03 pm by JuliaL.)
(March 12, 2015 at 10:24 pm)Godschild Wrote: I do not claim, I know God exists. I am infallible about know God exists and why shouldn't I be, He proved to me He's real, as promised. Oh, so a person has to be fallible in all parts of his life to have a meaningful discussion, fine, good to know you are. I'm fallible in most parts of my life, but when God proves Himself to a person He leaves no reasons to doubt, sorry you can't accept this.
Look up Cartesian Demon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon
Unless you have the power to resist an arbitrarily powerful being yourself, you cannot know that the being which has proven to you that it is God is actually God. The arbitrarily powerful being has clouded your mind to think it is God. Hence your 'knowledge' is false or at best, uncertain.
You may counter that, like Sye-Ten whasisname, an ALL powerful God could confirm Her identity unambiguously. However, unless you and She have an answer to the hard problem of solipsism, She cannot know that She is all powerful and not simply misinformed. How does She know She is not a brain in a vat?
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
