Re: Stuck Between Agnosticism and Christianity
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I believe in god but not in hell
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Can you elaborate? Q3 & Q4
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I dont know if it's useful, I've been down this road with you before - it seems to involve lots of unrelated questions with the odd 'that is not a knowledge statement' thrown in. I dont understand the way you use words, so am not confident we're going to have much of a fruitful discussion. Nonetheless...
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Q3. What is a 'god'? Please define what it is and how it works.
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By God I mean the intelligent creator of the universe with no physical or temporal existence, able to do everything it is possible to do and able to know everything it is possible to know.
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Q4. How do you know?
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I dont claim knowledge of god - I have a belief (which I dont regard as a choice but rather a discovery about myself). The only evidence for that belief is a subjective experience which seems to me to be communing or sharing a moment with someone else - the obvious physicalist explanations dont seem "right" to me, but I accept a high probability that I am wrong.
You didnt ask, but the choice of which religion I follow is largely irrational - something I reluctantly accept as a necessary evil.
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