Quote:Yes, I do know that God exists. Whether or not you believe me and whether or not I can share that knowledge with you has no bearing on that knowledge. I am a gnostic Christian. I know God exists.
You 'know' no such thing. You merely believe it. Why? Because there are explanations for the phenomena that cause you to believe in God that are equally as good as the God-derived explanations. When you're faced with two equal sets of explanations and opt for one over the other (especially in view of lack of evidence for Godism and in spite of the overwhelmingly strong evidentiary support for naturalistic explanations) you've opted for belief over knowledge. Epistomologically, that's always been a weak stance to take.
That being said, I don't doubt the sincerity of your belief. That is to say, I don't think you're having us on or anything of that sort. I think you hold your beliefs deeply and seriously but at they end of the day, that's all they are - beliefs, not knowledge.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
