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Originally Posted by photon
Actually that's the aspect I was most interested in, to see how many gnostic theists there were.
Because I think there's a contradiction there... typically in a discussion about the existence of god one will ask for evidence, the other will hand wave about free will therefore god cannot prove his existence.. so that would mean that all theists should be agnostic theists.
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That is all very well and good, but it simply isn't the case. Almost every theist that I know believes in God with near-to-absolute certainty in the absence of what you or I would consider valid evidence. Again, it is impossible to minimize the influence of religious experience in this discussion: People believe because of the tangible impact that they perceive God to have in their daily lives. In the classical expression of evangelical Christianity, members are encouraged to
share their experiences in the place of evidence for the reality of God; to talk about the things that "God is doing in my life".