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Originally Posted by Lobotroth
100% certain there is a God or Gods. How?
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Mental deficiency.
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What a horribly facile response. This completely ignores or fails to consider the highly complex phenomena of religious experience, and the social and psychological mechanisms that people instinctively employ to explain numinous encounters.
How are gnostic theists certain about their belief? Quite simply, it is because their own experiences with God are positively too powerful to dismiss. It is not an exaggeration for me to state that most of the people in my life speak to and hear from God on a nearly daily basis. My mother-in-law perceives the presence of angels, and exorcises demons. You go ahead and try to convince one of them that their experiences are impossible, or that they are somehow delusional. This is not to say that they are right about what they believe, but the strength of their convictions is absolutely legitimate.