The assumption of a God (Revelation, worship, quotes, faith)
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Look, God-worshipers don't really know there is a God or not -- it's a totally faith-based act to believe: they bang their heads on the ground praying, pay for their religion, ready themselves for anything their religion calls for ... but, no one really sees nor hears from God. Worse, despite all the religious acts, there's no miracles, just faith.
It's not exactly an assumption. It's based on an authority: revelation. Since it's based on an ultimate authority, it's no more an assumption than the findings of science, which are also based on some ultimate authority.
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Look, God-worshipers don't really know there is a God or not -- it's a totally faith-based act to believe:
Yes, the knowledge of God is a faith-knowledge, but it's also based on objective revelation. So, strictly speaking, it's not totally faith-based.
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they bang their heads on the ground praying, pay for their religion, ready themselves for anything their religion calls for ... but, no one really sees nor hears from God.
Those with ears to hear do, in fact, hear God's "voice."
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Worse, despite all the religious acts, there's no miracles, just faith.
Yes, the knowledge of God is a faith-knowledge, but it's also based on objective revelation. So, strictly speaking, it's not totally faith-based.
Contradiction. Objectivity isn't up for debate.
I don't see where the contradiction is. And although objectivity isn't up for debate, it does factor in to this since the claim was made that believing is "a totally faith-based act." It is not totally faith-based. That implies--wrongly so--that faith is blind and not based on any objective reality whatsoever.
I don't see where the contradiction is. And although objectivity isn't up for debate, it does factor in to this since the claim was made that believing is "a totally faith-based act." It is not totally faith-based. That implies--wrongly so--that faith is blind and not based on any objective reality whatsoever.
Objective=concrete, set in stone, ergo, no faith.
You either have faith or an objective truth. You can't have both.
Those with ears to hear do, in fact, hear God's "voice."
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So what does God sound like? Deep voice? Rough voice? What kind of accent? Old english, with lots of "yea's" and "Veriles", or perhaps a Yiddish accent? Maybe he speaks in the accent of the prayer?
I assume God talking to you is easily distinguishable from random thoughts popping into your head....
So what does God sound like? Deep voice? Rough voice? What kind of accent? Old english, with lots of "yea's" and "Veriles", or perhaps a Yiddish accent? Maybe he speaks in the accent of the prayer?
I assume God talking to you is easily distinguishable from random thoughts popping into your head....
Notice that I put the word "voice" in quotes. It is not a literal voice as you interpreted it.
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