When you're a teenage boy and your religious leaders tell you that if you fight against unbelievers in the name of Allah, you are guaranteed eternity in Paradise with virgins galore, that's hard to turn down.
That implies that beliefs are untrue, which is a false assumption.
Nikkism isn't a religion, so I don't see your point.
Since it doesn't exist, I guess not:shrug:
How are you reaching that conclusion? 99.99% of the world's population follow a religion that they did not found...
By saying that your religion or beliefs are not false, then you are implicitly saying that they are true; so your religion does appear to have truth as a requisite.
I don't have my own religion, and religions don't "belong" to any one person in the first place (aside from perhaps their...
If by this tongue twister, you mean: more prayers answered = prayer works, then yes, I guess that would be true, but it would be really hard to actually do that study, don't you think?
That doesn't answer my question...is your religion true or not? Or at least, do you believe it to be true?
It's one of the hard truths of being a human being; you don't have to invent your own religion to discover that.
Hi May! I don't think I've ever spoken to you before on here? Are you a Jehovah's Witness?
Out of curiosity, how would one become part of that "great crowd"?
Sorry, didn't mean to ignore you! Yes, ask away.
Your examples offer a sort of quandry in terms of what you mean by divine revelation. Written Scriptures are physical, objective, public things; dreams are subjective and incredibly personal, private things. Those are two very different forms...
And that kind of illustration is exactly what I think invalidates the use (or, at least, exclusive use) of "gut" or "spiritual" feeling over and above intellect and use of logic and objective evidence. Which one of you has really been spoken to by the Holy Spirit, you or Victor? Both...
Whether you consider it anthropomorphic or not, that is irrelevant to the point I was making...it is illogical to say that God creates things (thus defining God as a creator of some sort) and then say that God is undefinable.