RE: Question about "faith"
September 27, 2020 at 2:30 pm
(This post was last modified: September 27, 2020 at 2:36 pm by Simon Moon.)
(September 26, 2020 at 5:40 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(September 26, 2020 at 5:08 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Provide a method to falsify your god.
My denomination claims that God created man as mortal, having no soul or spirit independent from the body. At death the person merely decomposes.
If you falsify this proposition, by showing man does indeed have a soul, it would refute the existence of my particular God. I would have to join Hinduism or Islam, or any other religion with a soul-predicting God. Or at the very least reinterpret my churches beliefs to account for the information.
Oh yeah...
Use the unfalsifiability of another claim, to falsify yours.
There's a reliable method [end sarcasm].
And I'll bet you think you have a good epistemology, right?
(September 27, 2020 at 12:29 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: If we know souls are immaterial, that alone begins to give information about what they are not (material) and what they are (immaterial).
Since when do we [i]know[/know] that?
Please provide one example, that is demonstrable, of soul.
Quote:If they are said to be a component of human beings, then we know they are inconsistent with chairs and rocks, and consistent with people. We can ask what happens to people in the absence or presence of a soul (death/resurrection) and whether or not it plays out.
There isn't anything demonstrable, that can be pointed to in a definition of a soul, that can not be explained by the mind. And since there are no demonstrable examples of minds existing sans physical brains... You got nothing.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.