I'd just point out that most arguments for theism don't support god of revealed religion even if I assume for the sake of argument mere theism.
Example Wrote:Miracles and religious experience provide a starting point for another argument for a theistic God. It is supposed that miracles and religious experiences can only be explained by the postulation of a theistic God. Let us understand a miracle as a divine intervention in the natural course of events. Even if such events occur, they need not be understood in a theistic way for miracles could be interpreted in terms of polytheism or in terms of a finite God. Thus, the cure of Mr. Jones' cancer might be the result of the intervention of a finite God or of several gods. Even Jesus's resurrection and the virgin birth might result from the interventions of polytheistic gods or a finite God.
There is nothing about miracles per se that requires a theistic interpretation[10] and the same thing can be said of religious experience. Let us understand a religious experience as an experience of the immediate presence of a supernatural being. Even if one can eliminate all naturalistic explanations of such experiences, it does not follow that the only interpretation of them is a theistic one. Certainly experiences occurring in the context of nontheistic religious suggest other interpretations. But even experiences occurring in the context of theistic religions such as Christianity might be interpreted in other ways.[11] For example, was the Lady of the Grotto as seen by Bernadette the Virgin Mary or a finite God?
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
