It's easy to say that a being that you have had no encounter with does not exist, and everyone who claims to believe in it does so purely by faith. I think people miss who and what God truly is because they have a set way of how they perceive truth and trying to have an encounter with a being that expounds those human limits is written off as illogical or false. I believe there is a one
true God and there is a consistence with people who have had the encounter that I have, even without meeting. I also believe the Bible gives a consistent portrayal of God that lines up with other encounter I have had as well. I know they likely could not have created in my mind because in some instances I would have the encounter and then collaborate with others and the Bible and it would prove consistent. I don't mean to preach, I'm just sharing my experience. I'm open for any discussion
I have often pondered a priori truth in respect to logical truth like the number 1, but especially in respect to formal logic applied to the "We hold these truths to be self-evident" arguments. What worries me is that everybody except the insane agrees that 1 + 1 = 2. But no one seems to agree in formal logical truths that Kant might claim as Reason with a capital R. If it is the case that there are no a priori ethical truths, then then ethics collapse into nihilism, which I don't want to happen
Your conception of God is interesting, that God is INFORMED by a priori truths rather than truth is informed by God. I don't know how many times I've come across Christians who say, "We'll God doesn't have to adhere to earthly logic because God's logic is higher." Did I get this right?
As an Atheist I kind of think God as symbolic of some a priori truth, but not God as a literal reality. Are you saying God is a physcial substance informed by logic? A physical god is less plausible.
It's easy to say that a being that you have had no encounter with does not exist, and everyone who claims to believe in it does so purely by faith. I think people miss who and what God truly is because they have a set way of how they perceive truth and trying to have an encounter with a being that expounds those human limits is written off as illogical or false. I believe there is a one
Agent3 2 years ago
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true God and there is a consistence with people who have had the encounter that I have, even without meeting. I also believe the Bible gives a consistent portrayal of God that lines up with other encounter I have had as well. I know they likely could not have created in my mind because in some instances I would have the encounter and then collaborate with others and the Bible and it would prove consistent. I don't mean to preach, I'm just sharing my experience. I'm open for any discussion
Agent3 2 years ago
I have often pondered a priori truth in respect to logical truth like the number 1, but especially in respect to formal logic applied to the "We hold these truths to be self-evident" arguments. What worries me is that everybody except the insane agrees that 1 + 1 = 2. But no one seems to agree in formal logical truths that Kant might claim as Reason with a capital R. If it is the case that there are no a priori ethical truths, then then ethics collapse into nihilism, which I don't want to happen
Melampus3 3 years ago
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Your conception of God is interesting, that God is INFORMED by a priori truths rather than truth is informed by God. I don't know how many times I've come across Christians who say, "We'll God doesn't have to adhere to earthly logic because God's logic is higher." Did I get this right?
As an Atheist I kind of think God as symbolic of some a priori truth, but not God as a literal reality. Are you saying God is a physcial substance informed by logic? A physical god is less plausible.
Melampus3 3 years ago
THANK YOU!
In Genesis, yes. God created light, but then SAW that it was good. Land and water. Genesis 9 God SAW that it was good.
Gen 12: Vegetation. God SAW that it was good. Sun and moon, Gen 18:God SAW that it was good.
Only after Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil did anyone see anything as Evil.
good4usoul 3 years ago