Comments on: How Do We Know We Are Right? http://themisunderstoodgod.com/2009/11/08/how-do-we-know-we-are-right/ Website for Darin Hufford author of The Misunderstood God Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:36:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Gavin Wright http://themisunderstoodgod.com/2009/11/08/how-do-we-know-we-are-right/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Gavin Wright Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:43:47 +0000 http://themisunderstoodgod.com/wp/?p=37#comment-199 i think that spiritual life is much more important compared to our earthly life.*~, i think that spiritual life is much more important compared to our earthly life.*~,

]]> By: 111 http://themisunderstoodgod.com/2009/11/08/how-do-we-know-we-are-right/comment-page-1/#comment-191 111 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:27:28 +0000 http://themisunderstoodgod.com/wp/?p=37#comment-191 In a lecture entitled “Are there Objective Truths About God?”, philosopher William Lane Craig address this form of relativism. Objection #1:The Challenge of Verificationism The first challenge is that religious claims cannot be verified using the 5 senses, and therefore religious statements are objectively meaningless. Consider the statement “Only propositions that can be verified with the 5 senses are meaningful”. That statement cannot be verified with the 5 senses. If the statement is true, it makes itself meaningless. It’s self-refuting. Objection #2: The Challenge of Mystical Anti-Realism The second challenge is that religious claims, and claims about God, are neither true nor false. Consider the statement “No statements about God can be true or false”. That statement itself is a statement about God. If the statement is true, then it is neither true nor false. It’s self-refuting. Objection #3: The Challenge of Radical Pluralism The third challenge is that each person invents an entire reality of their own, and that there is no mind-independent objective world shared by individuals. Consider the statement “There is no objective reality shared by all individuals”. That statement is a statement that applies to all individuals. If the statement is true, then it only applies to the speaker’s subjective reality, not to everyone else. It’s self-refuting. Conclusion Craig ends the lecture by arguing that it is OK to think that other people’s views are false. It does not follow that just because Christians think other people’s views are wrong that they am going to mistreat other people In a lecture entitled “Are there Objective Truths About God?”, philosopher William Lane Craig address this form of relativism. Objection #1:The Challenge of Verificationism

The first challenge is that religious claims cannot be verified using the 5 senses, and therefore religious statements are objectively meaningless.

Consider the statement “Only propositions that can be verified with the 5 senses are meaningful”. That statement cannot be verified with the 5 senses. If the statement is true, it makes itself meaningless. It’s self-refuting.

Objection #2: The Challenge of Mystical Anti-Realism

The second challenge is that religious claims, and claims about God, are neither true nor false.

Consider the statement “No statements about God can be true or false”. That statement itself is a statement about God. If the statement is true, then it is neither true nor false. It’s self-refuting.

Objection #3: The Challenge of Radical Pluralism

The third challenge is that each person invents an entire reality of their own, and that there is no mind-independent objective world shared by individuals.

Consider the statement “There is no objective reality shared by all individuals”. That statement is a statement that applies to all individuals. If the statement is true, then it only applies to the speaker’s subjective reality, not to everyone else. It’s self-refuting.

Conclusion

Craig ends the lecture by arguing that it is OK to think that other people’s views are false. It does not follow that just because Christians think other people’s views are wrong that they am going to mistreat other people

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