Originally posted by ChessPraxis
I could cite Biblical passages, but that wouldn't prove it to you I am sure. So let's call it faith, something you might be lacking.
To know something you must be able to demonstrate that you know it.
The bible is not evidence of gods nature.
And you can't know anything by faith.
So basically you are saying that you don't know that you god wouldn't/doesn't/hasn't deceived you.
You just like to think that your god wouldn't deceive you...
In much the same way that you like to think that your god actually exists.
EDIT: And I lack faith intentionally.
Faith
(the belief in the truth of a proposition without evidence to justify that proposition or in the face of evidence that
contradicts that proposition) is demonstrably the worst possible way of choosing what to believe short of discovering
the truth and the deliberately believing the diametric opposite of that.
Belief based on unquestioning and unquestionable faith is the core problem with all religion and superstition.
Faith based beliefs are a complete anathema to any and all rational thinking people. By definition.