Uh... Praise be to Odin.
I hope I haven't come across in that manner.
I am simply attempting to say it is possible to know something by personal experience that is impossible to prove to anyone else, but that also doesn't mean its any less true.
Being a Christian is not arrived at by head knowledge.
Whether I am in a Chemistry class wanting to know what is in a solution or trying to determine the existence of God, I will never know unless i invest some time in the matter. I can read my Chemistry book all day long and unless I start titrating I will NEVER know what is in that bottle. I can read the Holy Bible, I can read the Koran, or any other sacred text but unless I DO something, I will never know the truth of the matter.
I generally agree with the emboldened sentence as stated. But of what value is that. I think the only usefulness is limited to trying to show people you're not crazy for what you believe. And believe me, I'm not trying to say you or any other religious people are crazy. I don't believe that. But it doesn't do anything to convince me that you're right either.
It doesn't logically follow that if you believe something with maximum confidence, it must be true, or if I doubt it hard enough, it's false. Your belief or my skepticism in themselves aren't logical indicators that your belief is true or false. A better indicator of what is true or false is the quality of what we based our conclusions on. If you tell me that you really believe it, and you really have faith, I'm going to be skeptical. But if you tell me that you've seen God yourself, and you can provide evidence that you really saw him, that's more convincing.
It's about time....the Christians have crusaded into the Islam thread.
You mention Crusades as a noun. I used it as a verb. We missed forming a covalent bond on the matter.
You guys are battling epistemology (lots of nice books on the subject).
Wow. Popper, Descarte, Hume, Kant, Plato
Just off the top of my head. Probably the best but you really have to chew through it is Kant. I would lean toward Descarte.
You mention Crusades as a noun. I used it as a verb. We missed forming a covalent bond on the matter.
You guys are battling epistemology (lots of nice books on the subject).
wanting a text that would be used in a PHIL 200 level class as an overview compare/contrast
You mention Crusades as a noun. I used it as a verb. We missed forming a covalent bond on the matter.
You guys are battling epistemology (lots of nice books on the subject).