So…massive cognitive dissonance, then? You know that science is nothing more than the effort to accurately describe reality. You know that is has systems in place that make the possibility of widespread error on points like the age of the earth or evolution ridiculously unlikely at this point. You know that if reality is even remotely close to real, that the bible isn’t remotely close to accurate in its descriptions of reality.
You even know that personal subjective experiences are utterly untrustworthy as evidence, and that only a complete moron would trust a book - or spirit - that said “I’m God/God-sent. Trust me!”
Frankly, nah. If you had such awareness and knowledge, you have expunged it to make room for your irrational and unsubstantiated theories. You are thus absolutely correct that any science degrees you have are now rubbish, becuase you no longer have the knowledge and abilities that they state you possess. You can now boast only in your own ego, and your own imaginings.
After god has come out and slaughtered all those who will not bow their knee and proclaim his soverignty, then sure, there will be objective evidence and reason for rational people to believe in him. Until then, it is impossible to come to know him. You can come to know the inside of your own imagination…but without outside evidence, there is no way whatsoever to discern the voice of God (should it exist) from the voice of the Devil (should it exist) or from the voice of your own overactive imagination (which we know exists)
And more to the point, you still can’t verify that the text of the bible has any supernatural origins whatsoever, especially not by references to its own text. You cannot verify its godliness objectively or personally - because ‘personal’ verifications are more likely your subconscious telling you what you want to hear than some homonculous doing the same.
Your first sentence is nonsense - I know what truth is; I can look it up in the dictionary and everything. You might try that sometime.
I know my parents from objective evidence. Every interaction I have had with them was theoriecally observable by third parties (and often were actually observed by third parties). My parents have never interacted with me via ‘personal’ evidentiary methods like sending me emotions, visions, dreams, or hallucinations.
Oh, I know I sound like a fool to you; most people sound like fools to holocaust deniers on that subect too. The thing is, of course, that I have facts and reality backing me up, and you have…selected quotes from an old book of doubtful veracity.
You mean, to put in the words of that book that you cannot possibly know is the Word of God, of course.
And nobody’s saying that the bible isn’t saying it’s true. We’re just quite reasonably doubting its credibility. Which is pretty shaky, what with the contradictions with observable reality, and the internal contadictions, and all that.
Mm-hmm. I have an invisible dragon in my [nonexistent] garage too. We’re both special!
In the astronomically unlikely event there’s this invisible dude standing in front of me at all times (even when I’m showering? Ewwwww), then I sincerely hope if he does one day make himself visible to me, he makes himself visible to everyone else too. Because if it’s just me, I’ll know I’ve gone insane. It’s a sure sign, you see.
And dang, if he was visible and in front of me at all times, it’d make driving really unsafe. I couldn’t see where I was going!