The Argument from Religious Experience
- Created by: Georgia Lou
- Created on: 08-04-14 20:01
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Clues
- **conversion** Travelling to Damascus, was blinded by light "Saul, Saul why do you persecute me?" - Numinous felt overwhelming presence - Conversion, changed to St Paul - Proves God's existence for those with faith (10, 2, 2, 4)
- **mystic**group experience** People started laughing and were unable to control themselves (7, 8)
- **vision** Saw vivid visions of God - vision experience - proves God's existence, first hand evidence - doesn't prove God's existence could have been side affects of medication (6, 2, 7)
- 5 Principles of a Religious Experience || 2 Public || 3 Private (7, 9)
- Challenged Swinburne's Principle of Credulity || An experience may not be God it could have been caused by: Drugs/Alcohol, the person may not have ability to fully explain: A child (8, 5, 5)
- Does proves God's existence, he sent her to find the spring || Does not prove God's existence coincidence, may have been an illusion (2, 10, 4)
- Religious Experiences are just our body responding to external stimuli, created the 'god helmet' to stimulate a religious experience (7, 9)
- The idea that God can be at one with objects of nature (6, 9)
- Verification Principle || A proposition has meaning if it can be fully verified || Strong Verifcation - No doubt in the statement, can verify by using own experience || Weak Verifcation-Statement could be verified OR someone else can verify it (2, 4, 9)
- We should accept someones experience if: You have heard reports of the experience, and have no reason to doubt the individual || Meaning God exists (9, 2, 9)
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