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Okay. I must have been thrown off by the insults, condescending tones, and proselytizing from earlier.No.
I am here to attempt to respectfully dialogue with people who have views different than mine so that I may help and edify and encourage and in turn be helped edified and encouraged by being able to help edify and encourage others.
Okay. I must have been thrown off by the insults, condescending tones, and proselytizing from earlier.
He of course, is not.Well, if "God" is simply a product of your imagination, I suspect the latter.
You keep saying this, but fail to produce evidence that he's nothing more than a figment.He of course, is not.
Which of course, is code speak for "we don't have any evidence for what we believe."By the way, it may help you understand where I am coming from if I tell you that when it comes to epistemology, I am an adherent to the reformed epistemology school of thought as opposed to the foundationalist or evidentialist school.
You keep saying this, but fail to produce evidence that he's nothing more than a figment.
Which of course, is code speak for "we don't have any evidence for what we believe."
So you believe. But, why should I concern myself with something that is indiscernible from something you have simply imagined?He of course, is not.
Is that a fancy way to say "special pleading"?By the way, it may help you understand where I am coming from if I tell you that when it comes to epistemology, I am an adherent to the reformed epistemology school of thought as opposed to the foundationalist or evidentialist school.
If the arguments are to be against theism, I start with the premise that they are all wrong.
So you believe. But, why should I concern myself with something that is indiscernible from something you have simply imagined?
Is that a fancy way to say "special pleading"?
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Isaiah 26:3
If I do what God says and receive what God has promised i.e. the fruit of the Spirit, then I have confidence before God and man.
God is love. Whatever helps me to love my fellow man, whatever conviction, whatever thought, whatever unction, I can be sure it is of God.
Sure.
It is possible that my experiences are fallible.
I observe the fruit produced from my experiences and compare it with God's word. If the fruit of my experiences are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, self-control, meekness, selflessness, and humility, and an acute awareness of my total helplessness without Christ working in me to will and to do His good pleasure, then I am persuaded my experiences are of God, for these are the fruits Christ bore while on earth. As He honored His Father, so I honor Him.How do you propose to find out?
Could those things not be produced apart from that?The fruit of the Spirit is produced in my life. The experiences I have cause certain things to be produced in me. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, meekness, humility, selflessness and self control among others.
Before Christ was my Lord, I did not produce these things. Now, the more I spend in God's awesome presence and in His word, the more I become like Him.
Ask and you shall receive.
And yes I can introduce you to Christ. He is a person. Your willingness to meet Him on His terms is of course a prerequisite.
Actually, that wouldn't be a good idea...You can go back through my posts one by one if you like. I am sure you will find instances where I support certain beliefs with evidence.
Evasion is the norm for you.A claim which I refuse to demonstrate to be true when the one asking me to do so cannot tell me why they want me to.
I observe the fruit produced from my experiences and compare it with God's word. If the fruit of my experiences are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, self-control, meekness, selflessness, and humility, and an acute awareness of my total helplessness without Christ working in me to will and to do His good pleasure, then I am persuaded my experiences are of God, for these are the fruits Christ bore while on earth. As He honored His Father, so I honor Him.
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