God and the human mind

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What event or state of mind convinced you of the existence of God

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I found truth in not only the Bible, but in what I noticed in the world around me...

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and if you questioned this event/state of mind what eventually convinced you of the validity of the experience?

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Not only did I have a renewed cause, I felt total bliss while praying, and was excited to live. I was truly a "sleeper" before this.

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Did you in anyway investigate into the possibilty of self-deception and other means of fooling yourself such as confirmation bias,wishful thinking,selective thinking,post hoc reasoning etc..?

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Actually I have not stopped doing this, a man of wee faith I guess, I have not found anything particularly "wrong" with what I believe in to date, I have come to the conclusion that I will never...Living "outside of the box" contrary to what many of you might believe was only possible through me becoming a true follower of God. I went with the flow before this you might say, I was a sleeper, an idiot. But this forum has done a lot and I am truly grateful, I have become so much more knowledgeable from simply watching and debating here.This message has been edited by prophex, 09-02-2004 10:17 PM

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"Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."Ephesians 5:14

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Ok so could you give us some idea as to how you determined that errors such as confirmation bias,wishful thinking,etc..were addressed by you that you might rule them out?

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By the support of others, especially my brother, messenjah.Realization, realizing that my doubts were wrong, and most of the time mistakes. Making sure that the bliss I had first achieved by believing in God remained. That it does.

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"Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."Ephesians 5:14

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And please explain how they/he answered issues concerning confirmation bias,wishful thinking,etc..

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Being themselves, having stronger faith.

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"Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."Ephesians 5:14

Get to the point, sidelined.

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"Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."Ephesians 5:14

[quote]My point,my point...Oh yes I need you to tell me if you applied critical thinking to the belief system you accepted. For instance The law of Truly Large Numbers.Confirmation bias.Begging the question.Selective thinking. [quote] What I will tell you is that I applied enough "critical thinking" to obtain what my faith is today to find the final conclusion... Truth.

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"Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."Ephesians 5:14

Questioning the Bible, God's existance, logically looking at the Bible, but all of this becomes extremely useless, a waste of time... I have found this through taking the difficult route to knowing God, but I have not yet scratched the surface...

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"Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."Ephesians 5:14

Again, the point?

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"Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."Ephesians 5:14