iambiguous wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 7:32 pm
"Again, from my own frame of mind, this is what I call a "general description intellectual contraption".
Or, given this thread's subject, a "general description spiritual contraption".
Me, I'm only really interested in those who believe "in their head" that an omniscient God does in fact exist.
Their own God, for example.
Now, if they take a Kierkegaardian "leap of faith" to this God, fine. After all, for any number of personal reasons rooted [in my view] in dasein, particular individuals are able to do this.
And I certainly respect their leap of faith because what can I possibly know about the lives they lived predisposing them to?
Instead, it is those who go beyond an existential leap of faith -- or a "wager" -- and insist that they
know that their own God does in fact exist that most intrigue me.
And that He is in fact omniscient.
That's when the discussion shifts [for me] to these factors:
1] a demonstrable proof of the existence of your God or religious/spiritual path
2] addressing the fact that down through the ages hundreds of Gods and religious/spiritual paths to immortality and salvation were/are championed...but only one of which [if any] can be the true path. So why yours?
3] addressing the profoundly problematic role that dasein plays in any particular individual's belief in Gods and religious/spiritual faiths
4] the questions that revolve around theodicy and your own particular God or religious/spiritual path
This and reconciling God's omniscience with human autonomy.
Then back to the part where others move on to someone else if they are not interested in taking up the concerns that most interest me.
Given particular sets of circumstances that precipitate conflicting assessments of right and wrong, good and evil, true and false.