The $5,000,000 ID Research Challenge

If this hypothetical creator of yours is so knowledgeable then anyone listening to him sufficiently should have access to enough knowledge and insight to both preach effectively and successfully tackle any debate. If you have been listening to your hypothetical creator and he has told you that your statement above is an effective form of preaching I can only question just how knowledgeable this creator of yours really is. Well hypothetically a hypothetical human could obtain as much knowledge as a hypothetical creator.Or are you suggesting that the absence of such a knowledgeable human is evidence that such a knowledgeable human could not possibly exist......?

Well why don't we test this belief in divine wisdom? That could form the basis for a research project could it not?Let's take someone who believes that they are in communication with the divine (e.g. yourself apparently) and see whether they can demonstrate the validity of this belief by extracting some knowledge from the divine that it would otherwise not be possible for a mere human to have access to.What do you think?

Why is it is possible to "listen to the Spirit" in such a way that the ability to preach transcends "your own intellect and opinion" but not possible to "listen to the spirit" and similarly overcome the restrictions imposed by one's intellect and opinion when it comes to anything remotely useful or testable? Well I think it's a deeply flawed position on the problem of evil that has little relevance to this topic.

But that is precisely what I am proposing be researched. You have claimed that preaching requires access to something beyond one's "own intellect and opinion".I am suggesting that if you can communicate with this intelligent being such that you are able to transcend your "own intellect and opinion" then rather than merely preaching why not apply this ability in such a way as to conclusively demonstrates that you can actually transcend your "own intellect and opinion".Why not use this ability of yours to reveal a testable truth that your intellect and opinion could not possibly have arrived at? This would give far more objective credence to claims of communicating with the "divine" than any amount of preaching wouldn't it? Why are hypothetical humans any more (or less) limited than hypothetical creators? Well as an initial problem that leaves someone who acknowledges the philosophical possibility of a creator but who sees no reason to think such a thing actually exists in some sort of communion limbo.But if you are genuinely in communion with some sort of superior being why not demonstrate this ability of yours in a testable way (e.g. that described above)?