Some evangelist thought he was really smart assembling his list of beliefs

[BurtWorm]

You can just see him sitting at his computer, his brain and fingers working, working...


http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/001588.html

General and Special Revelation


22. I believe that God has provided us with knowledge about himself and his creation in two forms of revelation: general revelation -- which is provided through nature and through quasi-universal human experiences; and special revelation -- knowledge given to us by God through specific individuals in history.

23. I believe that general revelation can be either mediate (transmitted through something such as nature) or immediate (does not pass through an intermediate agent).(8)

24. I believe that knowledge of God is both mediate (revealed through nature) and immediate (a properly basic belief).

25. I believe that because humans are part of creation, all mankind has been provided with limited intuitive knowledge of the laws of the cosmos, whether the laws of nature or of creational norms, through general revelation.

26. I believe that all humans clearly see and understand that God exist and that he is eternally powerful yet we often twist, distort, and suppress this knowledge. (7)

27. I believe that because humans are part of creation, all mankind has an intuitive sense of God's normative standards for conduct and that we refer to this sense as "conscience."

[trotsky]

1. Oy.

I wonder how he reconciles the mutually exclusive knowledge that different individuals have claimed to receive from gawd via special revelation?

And, I've always enjoyed toying with this kind of person in a macabre way by asking them if they were convinced gawd had spoken to them and told them to kill someone, would they?

The more kool-aid they've drunk, the more quickly they'll confirm how gleefully they'd kill for their magic dude. Scary shit.

[onager]

2. You could drive a Mack truck thru the logical loopholes...

27. I believe that because humans are part of creation, all mankind has an intuitive sense of God's normative standards for conduct and that we refer to this sense as "conscience."

OK, then let's release this Great Philosopher someplace where Xianity is NOT the norm...though his closed, self-referential "reasoning" leads me to wonder if he even knows such places exist.

How does he deal with the "consciences" of those natives who believe they should sacrifice White-Eyed Intruder to their god...the one who lives over yonder in the big volcano?

Oh, and I recently saw the incredible documentary Born In Brothels. About young kids in India whose parents sell or force them into prostitution.

"An intuitive sense of God's normative standards for conduct?" They must be using the "normative standards" of Lot and his daughters in Genesis...