Then you are asserting now that human beings are not capable of knowing whether God exit or not, and you couldn't even prove this assertion.
I was always asserting this, and the fact that I can't prove it actually lends credibility to my assertion. But even more credibility comes to my assertion from that fact that those who claim that we CAN "know God" can't prove their assertions, either.
There are things which no body can deny as a fact, such as soul and death but we can still feel it even though we can't see it, and that's how we feel God.
There are many who can deny the existence of a "soul", and the fact of death doesn't become a fact because of anything we feel, but because of direct objective observation. We can know that our death is almost certainly inevitable because we can observe it in others.
There is no certain knowledge with those who deny or have doubt about the existence of God, and therefore, have no right either to prove or deny Him, because anyone without knowledge will have just doubts.
Doubt is irrelevant to the discussion. We have doubt because we cannot have absolute knowledge of anything. But this discussion isn't about absolute knowledge, it's about relative knowledge. To possess relative knowledge of something, one must have some form of direct objective experience of it. Since we human beings do not have direct OBJECTIVE experience of "God", that we can identify as such, we cannot possess knowledge of God. And the reason that objective experience in necessary, is because the question of God's existence is defined as God existing regardless of and independent of our conceptions of God.
The only way to verify that God exists as an independent phenomenon, is to experience God as such: objectively. And no one has ever verified having done so, because we are too limited to do so.
My teacher,
Abdul Rahman Al-Aqil said in his book "You will never be an atheist" the followings:
Lets assume that faith doesn't considered to be a valid proof for the sake of the argument, yet, there is alot of reasons why we have to believe in God, and how we can get this knowledge about him.
1- The need for a dogma, and this need will be known through a practical proof, and that's a plain philosophy for our religion, Islam.[/QUOTE]I see no reason that anyone would "need" to believe in the existence of God, unless they were mentally or emotionally ill. In which case I believe that other solutions could be found and that would be effective. The simple practice of faith, without the object of a deity, would work for such a person just as well as the practice of faith with a deity.
2- "Just in case": lets assume that someone have a doubt about God existence, but at the same time, he believe--just in case--to spare himself from any sort of the so called punishment--assuming that what the believers believe in is true. This theory is well known in the west by Pascal's Wager which states that "it is a better "bet" to believe that God exists than not to believe, because the expected value of believing (which Pascal assessed as infinite) is always greater than the expected value of not believing".
Pascal's Wager has long since been debunked. Basically, it's a "what if" question. And what if questions are limitless. "What if the Heaven's Gate people were right and Jesus really was waiting for us all in that space ship behind the Hale-Bop Comet?" If so, then we've missed the mother-ship and are doomed to hell. You see what I mean? The threat of the possible "what if" scenarios are limitless, and are therefor meaningless. We have to live by what we know, because what we don't know is boundless.
3- The importance of the psychological dogma: Dr. Henry C. Link, famed New York psychologist, urges religion as a practical cure for social maladjustment and other ills. When in faith and understanding we realize that we are all children of God, despite race or nationality, and that without prejudice we all have equal access to the person and power of God, we are better able to take our places among men.
But we don't have any access to "God". All we have are ideas about what God might be like if God exists, and no way to test these ideas because God is an "omni-dimensional phenomena" and we are not. So we really have no way of cognating "God" as we typically define God.
If God stood right in front of me, and said "I am God", how could I possibly test and verify this assertion? There is no way for me to do so. No matter what "God" did or said I could still be suffering from some mental disorder causing me to have hallucinations. Or this phenomenon could be some space alien that has advanced technology beyond my comprehension. Or I could be experiencing a demon. Or this could be some different phenomena all together, that I am completely unable to recognize or label. And there would be no way for me to prove or disprove ANY of these OTHER possibilities, because from my perspective I would experience them all exactly the same way.
I simply am not capable of verifying the existence of God. And neither is anyone else, because they are just as human, and just as limited as I am.
Your logic is flawed because it based on your experience "only" as it appear to me with one religion or more, and you are not aware of all kind of beliefs in God because what you might encountered might be a belief in a "customized god" but not God, and by default, your assertion, that human beings don't have this knowledge of God and can't be aware of it is invalid because you are not fully aware of what all human beings know or are capable of.
My logic is NOT based solely on my experience, but on my observations of the experiences of others, as well. And in fact, I defy you to find ONE SINGLE HUMAN BEING, anywhere, who can prove that they can know that God exists. You can't do it. No one you know can do it. No one throughout all of human history has ever done it. And I can't do it either.
This is the evidence I present to back up my assertion that we humans are not capable of verifying the nature or existence of God. You keep saying this isn't good enough, but I notice that you have not yet proven that God exists, or even proven that you can know that God exists. All you do is remind me that I can't prove that God does not exist, which was never my intent, and which only serves to support my assertion, anyway.
Is anyone free to murder people? its a free choice to do that action, isn't it?
You are confusing the value of the action with the recognition of choice. The recognition of the choice is always good. The actions chosen as a result of that awareness of choice are not always good.