tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-216091202961011385.post3508770502316563121..comments2023-10-25T06:06:52.300-07:00Comments on Honest Search for Truth: What is Inside of the Box?Joshua Willmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141590324355987426noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-216091202961011385.post-60104102511742982962012-10-28T10:21:33.344-07:002012-10-28T10:21:33.344-07:00I was inspired to write this post by people who ar...I was inspired to write this post by people who are religious, know little or nothing about arguments for or against God's existence, and claim 'it is impossible to know' to avoid searching. Statements I have heard include, "If there were an answer wouldn't everyone have found it already?" "It's just a faith thing," and "There is no way to know if God exists, so just believe in Jesus because he feels right."<br /><br />That is the type of person I was responding to with this post! Thus, I would agree with you that they are hanging on to their faith by a few threads.<br /><br />An argument could be made that we will never know 100% whether or not God exists. I am for examining the evidence and then choosing the most likely option. Still being in the evidence phase myself, I have decided what to think yet. But I do think it is possible to know, or at least find a 'best' answer.Joshua Willmshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00141590324355987426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-216091202961011385.post-74410193989764024832012-10-28T10:13:17.261-07:002012-10-28T10:13:17.261-07:00Hi Mel!
I think you are correct. The person making...Hi Mel!<br />I think you are correct. The person making the statement absolutely makes a difference! This post was largely inspired by religious people who knew little to nothing about arguments for or against God's existence. I think that they claim that it is impossible to know so that they can stay within their comfort zones. Perhaps they are simply to lazy to search. I think we would both agree that people such as these have no right to make such a claim!<br /><br />JTSJoshua Willmshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00141590324355987426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-216091202961011385.post-34590878308722967452012-10-27T19:54:08.116-07:002012-10-27T19:54:08.116-07:00What sort of people make this claim, Josh?
The re...What sort of people make this claim, Josh?<br /><br />The reason I ask is that the claim that "we will never know whether or not God actually exists" seems to say one of three things: god doesn't exist, deism is true or something fancy about the nature of knowledge.<br /><br />If it's the last of these, then it is based on what people mean by "knowledge". If we allow a less strict definition of the term "know", such that a high probably of something being true means it's true, then I'd have thought that we could conceptially arrive at an answer.<br /><br />If it's one of the first two, then the claim is just pointing to the fact that the god hypothesis is unfalsifiable. Science can, and does, chip away at secondary claims that X, Y and Z are impossible without god, but the effect of this is merely to make a theist god more like a deist god - less and less involved in the day-to-day operations of the universe.<br /><br />I suspect that this claim is often made by secular people, rather than believers ... if it's made by believers, they are hanging onto their faith by little more than a couple of threads.<br /><br /><br /> neopolitanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02501854905476808648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-216091202961011385.post-81892352503578379142012-10-27T10:10:15.143-07:002012-10-27T10:10:15.143-07:00Having searched for decades, my conclusion is that...Having searched for decades, my conclusion is that it is impossible at this time to know if a higher power as definded by any religion exists; we have to measure it to comprehend it, and I'm not sure anyone knows exactly what to measure or would agree on it if someone did have a clue about what to measure and how. So, I think it depends on the individual making the statement "It is impossible to know if there is a god" that adds weight to the statement. <br />-MelodyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com