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Originally Posted by daking
Some nice answers. Unfortunately i dont think weve had one yet from a 'hard core' beleiver, i wonder what it would take for a moderately evangelical or moderately fundementalist to stop beleiving.
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i'm sorry you didn't receive the response you thought you might get... but i'm close to as hard-core a believer as you'll find.
i have a problem with the argument that disbelief is warranted by a lack of logical proof all by itself. i think it's somewhat vain to think that because the concept of God doesn't fit into your reason, then he must not exist. if history teaches us one thing, it's that human reasoning has limits... very severe and costly limits. why do we deny the existence of something that, by definition, must be bigger than our minds on the grounds that our intellectual faculties cannot verify existence?
now i'm not suggesting that our logical/rational processes are bad and should be ignored... just that i feel they're sometimes given too much credit in solving problems that are beyond their scope. you may doubt the existence of God based on your logical/rational understanding, but don't kid yourself into thinking that somehow you or anyone else has disproved the existence of God... logic cannot extend itself with confidence into that realm.