14 Mar '07 11:21>
Originally posted by knightmeister
I'm curious as to how you might be so privy to the subjective experience of theists first of all.
I'm not privy to their experiences, I'm merely stating that they are subjective, are you denying that each Christian has a totally different experience of god?
Secondly what you are saying is not true . Many Christians share very similar experiences of the intimacy and faithfulness of God's love for example.
That's immaterial, if they differ in their experience it is enough to show that the differences exist and so no one has a claim to a true and absolute god.
What you are saying is just a truism. Our experiences of nature are very sublime and individual and we all find different aspects of nature appealing but one would not say that nature is not a unified whole or that nature does not exist because of this.
Nature is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of empricial presence, we can all measure and agree on the measurements of what we find in the natural world, it is an objective world.
Individual perspectives and experiences do not prove a fragmented reality , it just shows we can all experience things in different ways uniquely.
I'm not attempting to prove a fragmented reality, where did you get that from?
I'm curious as to how you might be so privy to the subjective experience of theists first of all.
I'm not privy to their experiences, I'm merely stating that they are subjective, are you denying that each Christian has a totally different experience of god?
Secondly what you are saying is not true . Many Christians share very similar experiences of the intimacy and faithfulness of God's love for example.
That's immaterial, if they differ in their experience it is enough to show that the differences exist and so no one has a claim to a true and absolute god.
What you are saying is just a truism. Our experiences of nature are very sublime and individual and we all find different aspects of nature appealing but one would not say that nature is not a unified whole or that nature does not exist because of this.
Nature is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of empricial presence, we can all measure and agree on the measurements of what we find in the natural world, it is an objective world.
Individual perspectives and experiences do not prove a fragmented reality , it just shows we can all experience things in different ways uniquely.
I'm not attempting to prove a fragmented reality, where did you get that from?