- Religious language is meaningful as it can be verified in the future
- Religious believers hold their beliefs on trust assuming that they will be vindicated in the future - eschatological verification
- John Hick added to Mitchell’s Parable of the Partisan; After the war, the truth will come out - either the stranger will be hailed as a hero or seen as a traitor
- Hick thought that believers with specific after beliefs will be able to verify if true, but not falsify them if they are false
- When you die that is when you can verify your beliefs, however, they cannot be falsified
Truth about the stranger coming out and eschatological verification fail to correspond. With the stranger, it is guaranteed that the truth will eventually come out and that it will be known amongst humans, whereas after death this is not guaranteed in the same way.
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