How God is Experienced:
God, as experienced, seems to have something to do with a projection of a person’s highest values. When a person is thinking about what is most important, and what is most real, he is, in a sense, thinking about God. — Brendan Golledge
If the material world follows the rules of logic, then in order for anything to happen in the material world, it must have been caused by another thing. — Brendan Golledge
Let's assume for the sake of argument that God does not exist at all outside our heads. Then a good analogy for the first section would be something like, "What experiences we have that caused people previously to believe in the existence of phlogiston," or "Phlogiston, as experienced." — Brendan Golledge
I did not like the quote from Wittgenstein because it was another comment that made me think that the poster had not read anything in my essay. — Brendan Golledge
I'm not sure what it is that moves a person to share observations and speculations regarding God, but I doubt that doing so has ever succeeded in accomplishing anything except, in some cases, convincing someone to accept a belief in a particular kind God or fostering disagreement over whether God exists or if God does exist, what God is in that case. — conceive
As an example of phenomenological truth, Genesis says that humans don’t live in paradise, that we don’t live in paradise due to our own actions, that men have to eat by working, that women have pains in childbirth, and they have to look to their husbands. Those things are obviously true to anyone who has lived as a human. The stories used to explain how that came about are not literally true, but the end result does not differ at all from the common human experience, or else it would not have been considered such a meaningful story for so long.
I would highly recommend looking at Jordan Peterson’s Biblical lectures to see a modern take on Biblical wisdom. — Brendan Golledge
:up:... another comment that made me think that the poster had not readanything in my essay[my entire, overly long, OP]. — Brendan Golledge
Jordan Peterson — Brendan Golledge
I thought of another thing I could have put in the essay. I have heard that from the psychological perspective, the conversion from polytheism to monotheism meant that people imagined themselves to be one (at least in ideal) whereas they had not thought like that before. — Brendan Golledge
But If we believe in just one God that is to be properly worshipped, then our best and highest selves (what a Christian probably identifies as his conscience) is just one, and everything not in alignment with that needs to be reformed or cut off. — Brendan Golledge
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