Do people believe in God from second they are born or they learn it ? — Override
Would you agree that ? — Override
What i meant by questioning "is belief of God coded in our DNA?" is trying to find out if this belief is some kind of an instinct that we inherit from past. — Override
Without belief in God it's going to be difficult to explain that vision I had of the future and what that voice was that saved me from a (probably) fatal snake bite. — Dredge
So would you agree that as soon as we understand that there is a very high order around us that is very far from human capacity to create we start believing in God or we start believing in God, or we learn to believe in God in another way, like outside factors which i have mentioned in my previous message and justify it this way. — Override
Well, I guess it comes down to what you want to believe. If i said, "i saw a fox at he golf course yesterday", you probably wouldn't demand evidence or get annoyed that I have made such a claim. But when I say, "I had a vision that showed me the future" or "a myterious voice saved me from a fatal snake bite", suddenly you're demanding evidence, etc. The difference is, seeing a fox doesn't have implications of God's existence, but having visions of the future and hearing a lifee-saving voice does.
On the one hand it's a good idea to approach claims of miracles with a healthy degree of skepticism, but on the other hand, to deny outright that miracles occur is to deny a certain aspect of reality - simply because you find the possible theistic implications of that reality intolerable. — Dredge
I would first like to comment on Premise 1. I do not think that anything which has an effect on humans or the world necessarily exists. Let’s say you used this argument on a mythical creature such as a unicorn. — Abecedarian
A book exists. The white pages of that book exist, too. The letters, in black ink, on the pages also exist. So do the words, the sentences and the paragraphs.
Does the narrative given in the book exist?
Does the narrative given in the book exist?
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