tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38434833.post1353133250206753119..comments2023-10-18T00:59:40.216-07:00Comments on Christian Skepticism - a reasonable faith...: The Frustration and Irrationality of UnbeliefoddXianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15427095709766850092noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38434833.post-91355214244870963612007-10-19T09:18:00.000-07:002007-10-19T09:18:00.000-07:00Good post sword.As always in this type of discussi...Good post sword.<BR/><BR/>As always in this type of discussion, I would ask Hitchens to explain his epistemology. What is knowledge, and how do you gain it?<BR/><BR/>The best an atheist can do is to ultimately appeal to the reliability of his own senses and cognitive abilities. In the process he becomes viciously circular, since he is appealing to his senses to justify his senses, and therefore cannot justify his knowledge of his senses without accepting them as a-priori reliable and sufficient to gain knowledge.<BR/><BR/>In addition, how does he then know that he knows something? If his epistemology is dependent on his senses, does he have a sensation when he knows something? But what justifies that sensation as true? Since his epistemology depends on senses, he has to sense that he is sensing that he knows something. And so it continues, ad infinitum, never reaching a solid basis for epistemology.<BR/><BR/>As Christians, we believe that we are born with a certain amount of knowledge of God, having been created in his image. Furthermore, as we are regenerate and blessed with the Holy Spirit, we think God's thoughts after Him, through spiritual unity. That testimony allows us to believe that our senses are reliable, our thoughts are coherent and logical, and allows us to distinguish truth from non-truth.<BR/><BR/>God bless.<BR/><BR/>AugustAugusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12811077365729979841noreply@blogger.com