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Author Topic:   What you want to know about Christ.
jar
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Message 239 of 300 (431500)
10-31-2007 3:38 PM
Reply to: Message 238 by iano
10-31-2007 3:27 PM


How do you know it is God?
Interpret my experience? How do you 'interpret' the experience of looking at the computer screen on front of you right now. Or do you not interpret it at all and simply take for granted that what you are observing is the case: that there is truly a computer screen on front of you. Not an imaginary screen created by a demon. Or your own mind simply imagining a screen on front of you. Avoid assuming empiricism as arbitrator of what is real/not real and we will go far
A silly assertion. That the computer screen exists can be verified by a number of specific tests. We can check the power usage, the radiation emitted by it, take pictures of it, ask others to look and see if it is really there.
The key point to all of those tests is that they are independent of the individual.
What similar list can you provide that will let someone decide if it is God speaking to them or a Demiurge?

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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jar
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Message 245 of 300 (431577)
10-31-2007 10:45 PM
Reply to: Message 244 by iano
10-31-2007 10:37 PM


Re: I'm forever blowing bubbles
More nonsense.
The questions posed in MANY posts in this thread, most lately in Message 239, still remain.
Do you have any response other than jabberwocky?

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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jar
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Message 247 of 300 (431592)
10-31-2007 11:36 PM
Reply to: Message 246 by iceage
10-31-2007 11:12 PM


Re: How could he know?
Actually I don't know how anyone could answer this question concerning a faith in an invisible deity.
Well, I think that there is at least a possible answer, but it is one that many, particularly "Born Again" types, dislike.
The answer is to test the message against reason, logic and reality. It cannot tell you for sure if it is God, a Demiurge or just your own conscience, but it can test the message.
The next question is usually, "If the content is valid but the source unacceptable, should the content be accepted?" Personally I say "Screw the source."

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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