RE: Benevolent Creator God?
August 4, 2021 at 11:39 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2021 at 11:41 pm by vulcanlogician.)
(August 4, 2021 at 11:26 pm)tackattack Wrote:(August 4, 2021 at 8:27 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: How do you know that these experiences were caused by a god?
I do not know that it necessarily was a God, Thor or just some unexplained particle in the universe. I intuit it most likely is God. I have a definition of what I believe God is. It is an inadequate definition, but sufficient for relative classification. Nothing I’m aware of that is naturalistically or materialistically meet that definition. If zenelbub meets that definition when he comes to claim it was him, then as I said before I would reassess my definition of God and zenelbub.
Interesting. I think your position qualifies as reasonable. (Not in a more reasonable/less reasonable than X sort of way. Just in a "basically reasonable" sort of way.)
I don't have these "intuitions" of God that you have, though. I mean, I've had certain feelings (in church or while chanting mantras) that I formerly used to think might be intuitions of God, but skeptical analysis has led me to question those assumptions.
Also interesting is you saying that a meeting with Zenelbub would probably change your mind about things. But it WOULD TAKE such a meeting to change your mind.
... I feel the same way about God. At this point, it would take something like an in-person meeting to sway me away from agnosticism toward theism.