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Rational belief
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RE: Rational belief
I don't think it's possible to prove God through logical analysis. Why? Because to do that we have to know certain things and/or qualities of God which are not possible to know, and therefore, we can't be too sure if all the premises are true or not. We have to understand all of God's attributes before we try to form any statements about Him. However, that is not possible since this is something beyond our knowledge. I know that many thinkers have already created proofs for God's existence but then they were refuted by other arguments. I don't think I'll be at successful at finding a proof by myself either.

Trying to prove to God through logic seems to go around in circles only. But maybe it's one of those which is true but you can't prove it to be true. Something to do with Godel's incompleteness theorem I guess.
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Rational belief - by theVOID - September 19, 2010 at 9:43 pm
RE: Rational belief - by padraic - September 19, 2010 at 9:54 pm
RE: Rational belief - by theVOID - September 19, 2010 at 10:06 pm
RE: Rational belief - by tackattack - September 19, 2010 at 10:42 pm
RE: Rational belief - by Captain Scarlet - September 20, 2010 at 4:22 pm
RE: Rational belief - by Rayaan - September 20, 2010 at 5:51 am
RE: Rational belief - by theVOID - September 20, 2010 at 5:42 pm
RE: Rational belief - by DeistPaladin - September 20, 2010 at 7:20 pm
RE: Rational belief - by theVOID - September 20, 2010 at 8:25 pm
RE: Rational belief - by DeistPaladin - September 20, 2010 at 11:29 pm
RE: Rational belief - by theVOID - September 21, 2010 at 6:57 pm
RE: Rational belief - by DeistPaladin - September 22, 2010 at 8:23 am
RE: Rational belief - by theVOID - September 22, 2010 at 4:42 pm
RE: Rational belief - by DeistPaladin - September 22, 2010 at 5:16 pm
RE: Rational belief - by gargantuan - September 20, 2010 at 6:37 am
RE: Rational belief - by chatpilot - September 20, 2010 at 7:44 am
RE: Rational belief - by gargantuan - September 20, 2010 at 8:38 am
RE: Rational belief - by DeistPaladin - September 20, 2010 at 4:36 pm
RE: Rational belief - by padraic - September 20, 2010 at 10:07 pm
RE: Rational belief - by theVOID - September 20, 2010 at 10:18 pm
RE: Rational belief - by Saracen - September 21, 2010 at 12:56 am
RE: Rational belief - by gargantuan - September 21, 2010 at 7:58 pm
RE: Rational belief - by Saracen - September 22, 2010 at 12:01 am
RE: Rational belief - by Entropist - September 22, 2010 at 12:41 am
RE: Rational belief - by radames - September 22, 2010 at 7:45 pm
RE: Rational belief - by gargantuan - September 22, 2010 at 10:31 pm
RE: Rational belief - by Minimalist - September 22, 2010 at 10:42 pm
RE: Rational belief - by radames - September 23, 2010 at 4:01 am
RE: Rational belief - by Minimalist - September 23, 2010 at 10:58 am
RE: Rational belief - by LastPoet - September 23, 2010 at 12:03 pm
RE: Rational belief - by radames - September 23, 2010 at 1:35 pm
RE: Rational belief - by Minimalist - September 23, 2010 at 2:01 pm
RE: Rational belief - by jason56 - September 23, 2010 at 8:42 pm
RE: Rational belief - by Minimalist - September 23, 2010 at 10:18 pm
RE: Rational belief - by padraic - September 23, 2010 at 10:35 pm
RE: Rational belief - by jason56 - September 23, 2010 at 11:54 pm
RE: Rational belief - by Skipper - September 24, 2010 at 9:21 am
RE: Rational belief - by gargantuan - September 24, 2010 at 8:47 am
RE: Rational belief - by radames - September 24, 2010 at 12:46 am
RE: Rational belief - by Minimalist - September 24, 2010 at 9:30 am
RE: Rational belief - by gargantuan - September 24, 2010 at 1:59 pm

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