Do those who have religious experiences understand that I do not doubt that your experiences were absolutely real and that many people have them.
Where we part company is that I think that they are not as a result of the supernatural but of the very real world in which we live, that although they may be powerful to you there is no external reality to which they correspond.
Therefore stories of unevidenced religious experiences no matter how convincing to you will not persuade me that a god, or ghosts for that matter, exists.
2007-01-08 04:55:46 · 8 answers · asked by fourmorebeers 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Travis, it is an attempt to forestall more questions asking people to believe in god becasue of personal revalations.
2007-01-08 05:02:12 · update #1
We can believe in all sorts of things that we do not experience directly precisely because they do not appeal to the supernatural. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
If my Aunt in Australia claims to have a headache i would not need confirming evidence, if she claims to have been abducted by space aliens or have actually seen the FSM then I'm afraid I'd need a little more.
2007-01-08 05:07:15 · update #2
Did you actually have a question, or did you just feel the need to get that off your chest?
Have you ever stopped to consider that very real world in which we live is simply a physical manifestation of that which we call God?
2007-01-08 05:00:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Other peoples experiences usually impact people enough to believe them ONLY if it doesnt have to do with the supernatural. There are countless things that people believe without having experienced them solely on the fact that other people have experienced them. No one needs to have a headache to know headaches exist, nor do they need to fall in love to know love exists. People dont need to catch a stomach virus, to know one is going around, or get a hangover etc etc etc.
For some reason, people tend to put filters up only when it comes to the supernatural. Why is that? Is it psychological? Before you ever had a headache, did you believe they didn't exist? What would be different in the case for the supernatural?
2007-01-08 05:04:04 · answer #2 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are entitled to believe what you wish. But just like someone's religious encounters won't persuade you to believe that there is a God...you can get every man, woman, child, scientist, and anyone else you please and none of you can explain the world's existence to me...you cannot go and point out to me every step to the world's formation the reasons behind it....God is the reason..and its okay for you to have different beliefs...but nothing you say could ever convince me that God isn't real...how can you say God isn't real...you wake up brand new every morning...when you are down to your last and don't know what move to make next..who do you think gives you the courage and wisdom to make a move!! come on...i am all for natural rights but GOD IS GOD and HE is and will forever be...they who do not follow are lost!!!
2007-01-08 15:35:19 · answer #3 · answered by PrInCeSs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'd be straightforward, I by no ability understood why someone's sexual orientation become some thing except a private be counted. i do not realize homophobes and that i do not see what the hell distinction it makes what someone does of their own mattress room with yet another consenting human being. Why is it one of those enormous deal and why is it rammed in our faces each of the time? Do you extremely imagine what Obama says will make ANY distinction to a 300lb, redneck, beer guzzling retard on a Saturday nighttime out with the best 'Ole Boys?
2016-12-28 09:51:11 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am not a religious person(to carnel-man-made) .If God proved Himself He would not need faith i am a very staunch Christian, experiences we have come from God; if you have ever noticed in your life you can see where He has started one event(the ball rolling)and continuously leads to another reaching a certain stage in your life.He has a plan for you and if you look back you can see how it has reached where you are today the supernatural as well as the real world is God, ghosts are a figment of someones imagination,perhaps it could be that they need them
2007-01-08 05:23:55 · answer #5 · answered by loveChrist 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
But even with the scientific reasoning of evolution, how do you explain how evolution happened? How do you write off that everything had to come from somewhere? Look at a hand. See how it moves. See all it's abilities. See how was made...you want to tell me that's just a "happening" of nature. And don't use that we came from apes....look at their hands. Everything had a beginning, except God. He's always been and always will be.
2007-01-08 05:00:08 · answer #6 · answered by jerrys_love 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's fair. Because all of your irreligious experiences will not persuade me that there is not a God.
2007-01-08 05:00:57 · answer #7 · answered by Wilson 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You still turn me on!
:)
Talk soon, xxxxxx
2007-01-08 05:17:07 · answer #8 · answered by CURVY 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋