Here is one thing I know apart from empiricism, that empirical means are a way of knowing some things. For example, we can learn that some things are predictable in certain situations... in Physics or Chemistry. However, our model for such things is not always known (of a certainty) to be entirely correct. Sometimes we are guessing at why things happen the way they do.You don't have to worry about confusing me with that. I can tell quite clearly what is the Holy Spirit and what is your fabrication.
That's probably one of the most honest things you have said so far.
There are certainly many things each of us do not know. The questions are "Is there something we are doing or have not done that keeps us ignorant when confronted with such issues. Are they outside of our capacity to understand, or are we being lazy or willfully ignorant?"
I have never claimed that everything we know is from empiricism alone. Empiricism is how we falsify/verify. Inductive processes are also involved. Again it is your sloppy thinking here that is the problem. And probably a bit of lazy thinking as well.
So given that, can you tell me one thing you know for certain, that is completely absent of inference as well as deductive thinking from empiricism?
The Holy Spirit (and the Bible, God's word) is the objective standard.Here is a question, but you must answer it squarely and clearly (yeah, why should I expect you to do right this time? :chuckle.
If you analyze a question. With inference and deduction, given the empirical evidence, you come to one conclusion. But the voice in your head you claim is the Holy Spirit tells you that answer is wrong, who do you believe the objective standard or the voice in your head?
Do you believe God's Spirit directs your life? I believe God's Spirit is certainly an influence in mine, and I do not want to live my life by myself and for myself. I want God to get the glory for the things He has done in my life.
Luke 12:12 NASB - for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say."
John 14:26 NASB - "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.