People will commonly say that they will not believe anything they can't see. Eventually they have to modify this naively simple statement to not believing anything that's not physical (whatever that means). JP shared a short observation today that nullifies this argument.
Suppose there are twenty people in a room looking at the same yellow paper. There are now twenty independent sensations of that yellow paper. Well how do I know which one of those twenty sensations is mine? The fact is that I do know, but that knowledge is not an empirical fact but derives from the perceptual powers of the mind. I just "see" and "know" that my sensation is my own.
And for you Presuppositionalists out there, notice, I have not appealed to Scripture. That "this" sense perception I am currently having is mine is an intuition of the mind that I know through critical common sense. No Scripture needed since God has infused knowledge of himself and the world around us directly into our souls through the image of God.
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coming from a presuppositionalist: don't you refer to scripture when you reference concepts such as "image of God"? haha
Dude, we gotta sit down and talk natural theology sometime soon. lunch?
Ha, maybe I was unclear. The argument doesn't refer to Scripture at all. But when I look to Scripture to see why that is, I find a Scriptural defense of the use of human faculties in the search for truth.
Sure, I'm down for lunch. Until I get a job, I'm decently free. What days are best for you? You can email me at veritasluxmea22@gmail.com
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