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Why Are Things Believed ?

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@fmf said
The claims people make about "historical truths" related to supernatural causality are just opinions, whether they are yours or mine.
Historical truth is truth; adding modifiers doesn't alter it.


@kellyjay said
The declaration of limitations of what everyone could know is an assertion you
must repeat several times a week as if it's an unquestionable truth. It assumes
quite a bit as if you know all the variables that would make that true.
We are just sharing our opinions, KellyJay.


@kellyjay said
Historical truth is truth; adding modifiers doesn't alter it.
The claims people make about "historical truths" related to supernatural causality are just opinions


@kellyjay said
The declaration of limitations of what everyone could know is an assertion you
must repeat several times a week as if it's an unquestionable truth.
Well, it's my opinion, that much is true, but it's not "unquestionable". I answer questions about it all the time.


@fmf said
The claims people make about "historical truths" related to supernatural causality are just opinions
Historical truths either are or are not, the qualifier 'supernatural' doesn't alter what
occurred.


@kellyjay said
Historical truths either are or are not, the qualifier 'supernatural' doesn't alter what
occurred.
Well, supernatural causality is what we are talking about. The claims you make about "historical truths" related to supernatural causality are just your opinions. The same goes for mine.


@fmf said
Well, supernatural causality is what we are talking about. The claims you make about "historical truths" related to supernatural causality are just your opinions. The same goes for mine.
When something happened, it happened; opinions don't matter.


@kellyjay said
When something happened, it happened; opinions don't matter.
If you claim a supernatural phenomenon happened, then that is your opinion. Neither of us can objectively demonstrate "the truth" of it.

Your claim that it is a "historical truth" is your opinion.

If a Muslim claims Gabriel talked to Muhammed in a cave and passed on explicit messages from God, and then he says "When something happened, it happened; opinions don't matter", his claim ~ that Gabriel talked to Muhammed in a cave is a "historical truth" ~ is just his opinion, as would be your claim that "he didn't".


@fmf said
Well, supernatural causality is what we are talking about. The claims you make about "historical truths" related to supernatural causality are just your opinions. The same goes for mine.
There was this guy born a manger because his parents had nowhere else to go,
a preacher of righteousness, who was publically killed in the most gruesome and
humiliating way possible. He had a small handful of followers that changed the
world, these guys refused to recant their stories about Him, which cost most of
them their lives, had they been lying, why would they die for a lie, they knew was
lie?

We count time by Him, BC, and AD; more books are written about Him than any
other, the best-selling book ever, the Bible, has Him as the central figure in it, God
becoming a man, and you claim there is no evidence; these are only my opinion?

You are willfully blind.


@kellyjay said
There was this guy born a manger because his parents had nowhere else to go,
a preacher of righteousness, who was publically killed in the most gruesome and
humiliating way possible. He had a small handful of followers that changed the
world, these guys refused to recant their stories about Him, which cost most of
them their lives, had they been lying, why would they die ...[text shortened]... al figure in it, God
becoming a man, and you claim there is no evidence; these are only my opinion?
Yes, I am familiar with the Christian narrative with regard to Jesus and the success of Christianity over the last 2,000 years, but these things don't demonstrate that supernatural causality is a "historical truth".


@kellyjay said
You are willfully blind.
I don't think I am "willfully blind", KellyJay. And I do not think, nor do I claim, that you are "willfully blind" just because your beliefs are different from mine.


@fmf said
Yes, I am familiar with the Christian narrative with regard to Jesus and the success of Christianity over the last 2,000 years, but these things don't demonstrate that supernatural causality is a "historical truth".
I guess rising from the dead doesn't mean what it used to.


@fmf said
I don't think I am "willfully blind", KellyJay. And I do not think, nor do I claim, that you are "willfully blind" just because your beliefs are different from mine.
As I said, the moral compasses within man all point in different directions, comparing
yourself to me or anyone else does nothing; our points of view are not fixed on
anything, they go as we want them to, or we can even ignore them or turn them on
and off if we desire.


@kellyjay said
I guess rising from the dead doesn't mean what it used to.
If you believe that Jesus rose from the dead, then that is your prerogative. Whatever other beliefs that you have that stem from your belief that Jesus rose from the dead are also your prerogative. If they give you solace and create meaning in your life, so be it.

But the beliefs of 1.8 billion Muslims don't make the supposed supernatural appearance of Gabriel to Muhammed in a cave a "historical truth" just as the beliefs of 2.2 billion Christians don't make the supposed supernatural resurrection of Jesus a "historical truth".

The only objective "historical truths" here are that Muslims and Christians have been making these claims for hundreds of years.


@kellyjay said
As I said, the moral compasses within man all point in different directions, comparing
yourself to me or anyone else does nothing; our points of view are not fixed on
anything, they go as we want them to, or we can even ignore them or turn them on
and off if we desire.
If this is the moral judgement that you make pertaining to my moral compass ~ through the perspective that your moral compass equips you with ~ then I am fine with it.