Is this a good argument against personal experience with God?(People that claim they have talked to god)
I was just thinking today that you could never know you were talking to God.(God being all powerful all knowing all good) but only a being powerful to convince you that he was God.
You Can Never Know You Are Talking To God
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You Can Never Know You Are Talking To God
by BillWaltonSexUniversity » Thu Feb 12, 2004 1:04 am
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by Marshall McDaniel » Thu Feb 12, 2004 2:30 am
I think it was John Locke who said you can never be sure that it's not the devil that you were talking to.
"..All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself. The difficulties I meet with in order to realise my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilise my activities, my capacities.."GASSET"..For enjoyment and innocence are the most modest things: neither want to be looked for. One should have them-but one should look rather for guilt and pain!.."NIETZSCHE"..The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.." CAMUS
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by Uccisore » Thu Feb 12, 2004 2:58 am
The best argument I've heard agaisnt personl experience with God says basically that since God isn't a physical object with locality, there is no rational way to say that two God-experiences are experiences of the same thing, like there is when we see the same tree twice, or the same person. I don't agree with the argument, but it's still pretty good.
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