Religious experience

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What does Empiricism mean?
all knowledge comes from experience
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What is a religious experience?
A non-empirical occurrence that may be seen as 'super natural'.
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what is meant by ineffability?
the experience cannot be communicated by words
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what best describes a 'direct intimate experience with God.'
mystical experience
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what is a vision?
Someone believes that they have seen or heard something supernatural or a supernatural being.
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what religious experience did Moses have?
a burning bush
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what is meant by the principle of credulity?
what one seems to perceive is probably the case
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Which isn't a flaw to the argument?
There has been thousands of evidence universally
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Who said religious experience was..."an expression of a persons psychological needs, the argument from personal experience is the one that is most convincing to those who claim to have had one. But it is the least convincing to anyone else"
Dawkins
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Jacob had a dream in which he had an Imaginery vision what did he see
Jacobs ladder
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A vision that is externally present
Corporeal
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a little french girl who had a corporeal vision at lordes in france. were she saw the Immaculate conception.
St Bernadette
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You have no control over the experience and cannot influence it in anyway
passive
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The cumulative argument is that...
All arguments for religious experience are more convincing together than alone
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what best describes a 'direct intimate experience with God.'

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what is a vision?

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