Not just modern society, there has always been people who lie, and those skeptical of those liesYes that is one of the fallout of modern society who don't put value in a persons word or being honest anymore.
My dad used to say; “trust but verify”A lot of people get caught out. But that doesn't mean that people don't tell the truth and we can trust them.
I disagree! Too many people will greedily consume any sweet lie that flatters them, but will reluctantly nibble ever so skeptically at a truth they find bitter.The thing is those who are not truthful usually don't get away with it and are found out. But the truth will stand in the end and we can learn lessons and be confident about that truth.
No; just those who wrote those particular books.Then we would have to say that everyone from Jesus to the witnesses, and disciples to all the non-biblical people and events all being lies.
Christians are the richest and most powerful people on Earth! I call that self gainThat means Jesus or whoever lied has fooled the world. They are all deluded or liars. Now I know that people can be deluded and lie about all sorts of things usually for self gain. But what benefit would there be for this hoax.
Christ is a title; not a nameWe know that something pretty significant happened that changed our world and reality a little over 2,000 years ago by a man named Christ.
If your religion is true, that would mean all the other religions are a false scam regardless of the smoke they’ve caused. If you can believe 2/3 of the world’s population (percentage of world’s population that are not Christian) can be scammed by a lie, it shouldn’t surprise you that someone can believe 1/3 (percentage of population that are Christian) can be scammedI think where there's smoke there's usually fire. There has to be some truth as this impact has lasted and when its a scam or some crazy person, Charles Mason comes to mind there are telling signs eventually.
When is faith used in science?That's because you are narrowing what truth is down to empirical measures. As you have acknowledge there are truths that cannot be tested by the science method. We use faith with just about everything in some ways even when it comes to science.
Matter is material, which is defined as something that occupies space. Science does not claim matter was actually caused.Science can tell us that the world is made of matter but it cannot tell us what that matter is, what ultimately caused it and what it represents in the greater scheme of things.
Science does not claim reality is only made up of matter, that is a question not addressed by science.But by claiming that reality is only made up of matter science is actually making an ontological claim about reality and that's beyond science and a metaphysical position.
Love is a feeling. It does not need to be proven, and it is only as real as your imagination.All the methods you mention to measure the truth can be described as science measures. But as you have acknowledge there are different ways of finding a truth. Like we couldn't test, analyze, pull apart love.
Imagine testing and analyzing your partner to see if they loved you and have been faithful. I don't think the relationship would last long. But many people believe their partners love them and are faithful without any scientific support.
I disagree. They do know how light works and how our vision allows us to experience colorsWe can study and analyses the color red and find out all the physical processes involved. But that doesn't explain how we experience red. Yet it is true that we have conscious experiences of colors. But we cannot test for this.
People calling for justice want evidence presented, picked apart, analyzed, and studied. They believe when this happens, the injustice will be made justI disagree that the truth never asks to be believed. I think we have all seen people protesting an injustice calling out for the truth sometimes for years.
Do you not see the contradiction here? How can you believe 66% of the worlds population (who are not Christian) believe a lie when it comes to religion, yet on the other hand claim most are pretty good at discerning the truth? I'm not gettin this; make it make sense to me.Dylan wrote a song about it with the song Hurricane. I don't think liars and the guilty can maintain any false declaration of truth as they don't even believe themselves and it eventually comes out in one way or another.
Though we can be mistaken I think we are pretty good at discerning the truth most of the time because that is what allowed us to live as a society.
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