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"Does God exist?" Only someone, already in God, can know!
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I find this a quite eloquent use of nervous tension, admittedly circular.
Allow me to demonstrate that you do not retain the point, by the Grace of God.
Certainty is not knowledge.
Certainty is defined by a position within the truth, the knowledge of which (truth) is given by the Peace of God (a balance between pleasure and pain).
If you do not know your position, you cannot be certain. If you cannot be certain you cannot have Peace. If you cannot have Peace you cannot have the Peace of God. If you cannot have the Peace of God, you cannot have the Knowledge of God, since you are not in God or God would give you either. Ergo you have a choice to be in God that would give you certainty, whether or not you had knowledge, given time (which you may exchange for Peace, being sufficiently calm). Therefore if you take God as certainty, and assume it is also knowledge, without exercising your Choice for further Peace or Knowledge, you either want Peace but can't keep it for lack of knowledge or you want knowledge without certainty, since the position you have taken on the Choice that would grant it to you, is that the Certainty which Knowledge should have given you, is now in the Knowledge you continue to want (without position, because you deny God). EDIT: I admit this is dense, but I have made the argument as literal as possible in the event that you do not accept that Certainty is not Knowledge on the basis of common sense (common sense which obviates the need for complicated explanations. Read on! I make it simpler.)
You cannot have position, and deny God.
Also, just because you keep wanting Certainty when you think of Knowledge, does not make the Certainty of knowing God in God, knowledge that is equivalent with Certainty.
If it were true that you could have certainty every time you had knowledge, you would always know your name and never anybody else's.
Ergo Certainty is not knowledge and your argument is false. That is not a problem if you can forget about it.
I forgive.
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You retain resistance to the Devil, for the purpose of remaining where God wants you to be (that you may continue to give his Name Glory).
The fact that you resist the Devil, to whom the Name of God is Death, means that when you come to give Glory to the Name that has brought the Devil to Death (which you want to do because he tried to kill you, or steal from you, or destroy you) you cannot help but love.
If you love, God can be anywhere He wants to be, and if you fear, that means he can be everywhere, and so if He can be everywhere, then you are "in Him".
The rest is belief.
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The opposite (believers to non-believers) does not (automatically or otherwise) make the argument (that was opposed, eg. "God exists") a valid dispute (a reason to deny the claim).
I regard your comment about schizophrenia as speculation.
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And if your personal experience was partly delusional, you wouldn't know it.
But it wouldn't be necessary to know, if you could remember the Name of Someone who Does, like Jesus.
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English for english does not equal "answer".
Not only have you tried to explain something that is not rational (my undeclared motivations), you have not mentioned a single thing that would show you are sane (like the concepts I gave you to explain something you have declared you "know" has no meaning).
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Your answer above fits YOU precisely, are you posting while looking in the mirror?
I have not tried to explain anything, I have simply requested an explanation from you because you continually post nonsense. Obviously you either have a cognitive disability or perhaps maybe you are under the influence of narcotics?
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You have mentioned drugs twice now. A psychiatrist under the influence of the Devil could easily assume you lack self-control.
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What desire do you have to judge me?
Am I a fool that I use your words, with wise structure and yet you understand nothing?
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You are a fool for not explaining the reason for your apparent delusion. That is why I can only assume intoxication or cognitive malfunction within you. You have failed to answer all my questions and insist on causing more confusion when clarity is requested.
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There is only one simple answer, yes or no.
Nobody knows.
The first person who knows will be famous indeed.
Until we know we can only believe or in my case lack a belief.
If you really want to believe the answer is yes, then its possible that all sorts of personal experiences may help reinforce your belief to yourself.
I can speak from experience.
What you are explaining is a personal experience that supports your belief, but even an infinite amount of belief will not allow you to know.
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One can only truly know God, I have discovered, by Devotion. And that God is Shree Krishna, together with his consort, Radharani.
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No one can deceive as good as Krishna. If Krishna truly wishes to deceive someone, that person can NEVER know the truth. And you do not know the truth.
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How do you know Krishna isn't deceiving you and I'm actually right?
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You didn't answer my question... How do you know you aren't being scammed by Krishna, or any other God posing as Krishna
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