Search results

I'm confused. First you say that you agree with me and then you seem to be saying that you don't.

Any belief that you don't now have.

Yes.

What is stupid about it? I'm merely stating a fact - as of yet, no one has provided a demonstration of their ability to consciously engender a new belief in something.

That statement between your quote marks is true, but I don't see where I've said that. I think that in the immortal words of Struther Martin, "What we have here is a failure to communicate."

And yet so far no one has demonstrated such an ability in real time.

No problem.

So your state of mind when you realized the evidence was logically consistent would be that you still believed that "x" didn't exist, but you could go ahead and believe that it did exist and - poof - you would now believe that it did?

So the moment you knew that the evidence was logically consistent, what would your state of mind be with regard to a belief in the issue in question?

You wrote that you need convincing evidence. So again, how would you know when you had convincing evidence?

How would you know when you had convincing evidence?

JAG, I made the assertion based on the fact that I have never been able to consciously choose any of the beliefs that I have, nor has anyone that I have asked to demonstrate such an ability complied with the request. Perhaps you can. Maybe you could use something like leprechauns to...

But does He know before He creates a specific sinner that He will eventually be tossing that sinner into the lake of fire?

So then He doesn't know before He creates a person whether or not He will eventually be casting the person into the lake of fire?

I assume you're being sarcastic.

But since beliefs can't be consciously chosen, what's a person to do?

Someone new looking in may know of examples.

Does the supreme being have any input with regard to the creation of an individual, and if He does, does He know before the individual is created that He will eventually be casting the individual into the lake of fire, and if He does, why do you suppose He would go ahead and create the...

Post 426 should be changed from "... when no part of the night time and/or no part of the daytime could have occurred" to "...when no part of a night time or no part of a daytime could have occurred".

Perhaps someone new visiting this topic may know of examples.