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However you want to frame it, when the animal origin ego of the human becomes sufficiently dissatisfied with itself, then and there great potential comes into being for the faith candidate. That was my experience. It may one day happen to you, then you will understand.
Yes, you are often confused. Taking things on faith always leads to confusion. I'm talking about any consciousness at all Colter, be it a god, a person or a chipmunk. The issue of metaphysical primacy has specifically to do with the necessary relationship between consciousness and existence. Do the object of consciousness conform to the subject or is it the other way around. Existence cannot hold primacy and not hold primacy at the same time and in the same respect. That's a contradiction. That is why any argument for a creator god is instantly self refuting. If even one consciousness enjoys primacy over it's objects it means that consciousness has primacy.
The statement that these are narrow terms is laughable since all of the concepts involved are the most basic, most fundamental concepts there are. "existence" denotes everything that exists, everything that has existed and everything that will exist in the future. "Consciousness" denotes all consciousnesses. "objects" means any object of consciousness whether it is an entity, action or attribute or some other class of existent that hasn't been discovered yet.
No, these are not narrow terms. They are so fundamental that an error involving them renders a whole worldview false. This is the fatal flaw of theism and Platonism and Kantianism and many other worldviews. Maybe you should actually learn what the fundamentals are of your own worldview first and then you will avoid contradicting yourself so much.
Yes, that is how I wish to frame it, based on personal psyche and personal psychological need.
And, I was once in a similar position as yours regarding believing in the Christian God. Been there, done that and acquired new knowledge and understanding, that made that belief, impossible to reconcile any longer with reality.
Different strokes, for different folks.
If I understand what you are saying, one has to believe in the deity to experience the miracle that makes you have faith in the existence of said deity... Your belief is circular
In case it was missed, Colter
Even the apostles doubted so falling away isn't uncommon. However Christianity is primarily Paul's Pagan remix religion about Jesus. My faith is in the original pre-cross gospel, the religion of Jesus.
.....then along came the Urantia revelation, the new bible for the foreseeable future until the next Son arrives.
Unless your belief is wrong, in which case, it might eventually die out. Personally, I think we'll be the end of our own species before that point though
Well, the UB has already been validated in several areas. The next great world crisis may humble mankind and cause it to return to the Fathers way.
How has it been validated?
You can read some of the reports here: Urantia News - Verifying History and Science in The Urantia Book
Because you know, the site that directly profits from said text couldn't possibly be biased in its favor
UB the news is run by a reader named Halbert Katzen, its a non profit site maintained by donations from readers. Its separate from the Trust that sells the book. BTW, the book is free online.
That´s probably an answer (and possibly even a good one) to some question you´d like to be asked, but certainly not an answer to the question you wrote it in response to.There is something beyond the I AM because God so willed it.
Profit doesn't mean actual money all the time. In short, the site benefits from promoting that text, it is biased, and if you honestly can't tell that site is biased, you need some help with sources
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