RE: If you were ever a theist...
January 2, 2016 at 9:59 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2016 at 10:16 pm by Mystic.)
(January 2, 2016 at 9:31 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: I feel like I'd understand you better if I understood the bolded sentence. If I understand you correctly, you may be right. A 'proof' as you use the word may turn on the audience being in a closed system (like math and logic) of a uni-culture with a common tradition regarding the 'sacred'. Perhaps it is because that is condition is fading away that the appeal of such attempts to persuade too is also fading.
The heart needs to be sincere to God and in search of tranquility in a path of devotion to the treasured Being. If it is apathetic, it will not care to perceive the truth. If it is averse to it, it will reject evidence. It must be willing to submit to it, or otherwise will reject the signs that it's really up to the heart to perceive. It will even if reminded, close it's submission to the truth of it, and act as it's not true or evident or manifest. If it's prideful towards the path of submission, it will mock it. The uncleanness I believe is the source of doubt in God. It must be somehow stopped from controlling the belief of the soul, only then can we begin the quest to purify ourselves and root it out. I would say knowledge of God and perception of signs, has to be accompanied by love of the beauty of God and her Names.
Love of God to lovers of God helps them reach out and connect to the source, realize their connection, and increase in seeing power of her light and majesty.
Anyone who remembers God and is not in awe of by her majesty, essentially lacks faith in Her. It cannot be simply an intellectual acknowledgment of her existence.
All arguments for God will make use of spiritual truths, in which, it's up to the heart to perceive. If the heart acts averse it will close it's eyes to the reminder of the holy spirit and face of God in the soul and ignore the command of God in the soul.