I can't verify your experience.strawman wrote:I think the problem is that people talk about knowing Jesus without doing him.People don't really know what they don't do.totally subjective and based on emotionality rather than objective doctrine
I do believe that your experience
is valid
for yourself but It may not be valid
for all.
All
Religions
maybe valid
or none of them maybe valid.
There's too much conflict between the Religions
such that
to assume that
all Religions
are valid
is an assumption that's
patently invalid.
I respect the validity
of your
Religious experience for yourself
and many others of your
Faith
that I don't hate
but the assumption of Universality
is patently
without empirical basis unless we can objectively
study Faith
but Faith
itself
maybe unverifiable as fate
has it.
http://de-conversion.com/2007/06/30/chr ... -evidence/Anecdotal evidence. A particular cure would be administered and – lo and behold – the patient would recover! Someone would get a patent on the treatment and hawk it as a “miracle drug.” What people didn’t realize is that anecdotal evidence is next to useless: People recover spontaneously due to circumstances that have nothing to do with the “miracle drug.” Modern science teaches that valid data must be collected through rigorously controlled methodology and in large enough numbers to discount randomness and coincidence.
I often see religious people point to anecdotal evidence to “prove” the validity of their belief system. I understand the impulse: I grew up practically worshiping personal testimonies. “Jesus rescued me from sin,” “My life was terrible until I found the Lord,” “God healed me after I prayed.” Of course these experiences are meaningful for those who tell them. But are they really valid “evidence” for others to accept a particular truth?
My thinking on this changed radically around 2002, when I realized that all religious people recount personal experiences, mystical healings and life-changing “encounters with the divine.” My church taught me that the personal spiritual experiences of Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, Jews, etc. were Satanic deceptions designed to trick them into believing wrong doctrine. But as my blinders came off, I contemplated: If I considered pro-Christian anecdotal evidence persuasive, how could I discount the anecdotal evidence of other groups?
My spiritual experiences couldn’t be verified by anyone other than me, yet I expected others to take them on face value. How could I be so arrogant as to discount the spiritual experiences of people from other religious traditions? In the end, I couldn’t. That left me with two choices: Either everyone’s sincerely believed, dearly held spiritual experiences are equally valid, or none of them are. This realization was the beginning of the end of my religious belief.