? I just said it was true.. "the one true God." We agree, Christianity is true. Was that ever a point of contention?
yes, of course. But this does not imply that we do not also see, only that what we see we can understand in light of things which "are substantial but unseen", or "hoped for"; metaphyiscal things on one hand and things-yet-to-be on the other, t'which the natural man has no access
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Agreed. I was never positing that Christians need be 'sightless' with regard to natural reality, just that sight is always bound up with whatever framework by which you see and that there doesnt exist an observation platform outside of faith...
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well, again, I think it is sophistic to conflate the trust in senses and experience to that which concerns metaphysical truths and things-yet-to-come. "faith based" is made to imply that our beliefs are only personal convictions about such, and not also about certain facts.
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The existence of the exterior world is a metaphysical claim.
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it's not and you know it isn't.
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Of course it is.
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it's not. People wake up in the morning in the exterior world, needing no claim (metaphysical or otherwise) that the world in which they exist, exists. It simply is. You can doubt its existence, but this is generally a form of academic skepticism.
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Yhere is no way whatever world you wake up in corresponds to the world others inhabit, or that you are not the only conscious mind within it etc. I agree that *in reality* people do wake up and are in the world that just is, because their mode of being is a natural faith..
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Incorrect, although I can imagine that humans which were raised outside of contact of another human being might genuinely have this issue. You spend the first 9 months of your life INSIDE another human, if this is not "the same world", what is
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