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Struggles by Non-Christians
Can a skeptic on the fence have a personal encounter with God?
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<blockquote data-quote="SkepticOnTheFence" data-source="post: 77438178" data-attributes="member: 448937"><p>This would be terrible news for Alex O'Connor (and for me). Watch this relatively short clip:</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]IB1Eo94-_FI[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p></p><p>What specific "version" of Christianity are we talking about here? What would be a "minimal" version of Christianity? I'm asking because my expectations about what is possible and what can be expected to happen can change significantly depending on the theological commitments that are implied in the word "Christianity".</p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm not sure if I fully comprehend this. Are you saying, in other words, that you were able to believe X, by not believing A, B, C, D, E, F? I fail to see how belief in X follows from ceasing to believe other stuff. First of all, in order to cease to believe other stuff, you would need to discover reasons that undermine the previous reasons you had to believe other stuff (unless you never believed other stuff in the first place or some sort of <a href="https://iep.utm.edu/doxastic-voluntarism/" target="_blank">doxastic voluntarism</a> is true, which I'm skeptical of). Moreover, even if you manage to cease to believe other stuff, I don't really see how removing credence from "competing voices" (other stuff) can automatically increase credence in X, where X here would be "Christianity" (which, again, faces the problem of defining what "Christianity" means).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SkepticOnTheFence, post: 77438178, member: 448937"] This would be terrible news for Alex O'Connor (and for me). Watch this relatively short clip: [MEDIA=youtube]IB1Eo94-_FI[/MEDIA] What specific "version" of Christianity are we talking about here? What would be a "minimal" version of Christianity? I'm asking because my expectations about what is possible and what can be expected to happen can change significantly depending on the theological commitments that are implied in the word "Christianity". I'm not sure if I fully comprehend this. Are you saying, in other words, that you were able to believe X, by not believing A, B, C, D, E, F? I fail to see how belief in X follows from ceasing to believe other stuff. First of all, in order to cease to believe other stuff, you would need to discover reasons that undermine the previous reasons you had to believe other stuff (unless you never believed other stuff in the first place or some sort of [URL='https://iep.utm.edu/doxastic-voluntarism/']doxastic voluntarism[/URL] is true, which I'm skeptical of). Moreover, even if you manage to cease to believe other stuff, I don't really see how removing credence from "competing voices" (other stuff) can automatically increase credence in X, where X here would be "Christianity" (which, again, faces the problem of defining what "Christianity" means). [/QUOTE]
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