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Saturday, June 12, 2010

18. The Argument from Religious Experience

  1. Many people of different eras and of widely different cultures claim to have had an experience with the 'divine'.
  2. It is inconceivable that so many people could have been so utterly wrong about the nature and content of their own experience.
  3. Therefore, there exists a 'divine' reality that many people of different eras and of widely different cultures have experienced (Handbook of Catholic Apologetics, pg. 88).
Does such experience prove that an intelligent Creator God exists?  On the face of it, this seems unlikely.  For such a God does not seem to be the object of all experiences called "religious".  But still, he is the object of many.  That is, many people understand their experience that way; they are "united with" or "taken up into" a bounless and overwhelming Knowledge and Love, a Love that fills them with itself but infinitely exceeds their capacity to receive.  (Handbook of Catholic Apologetics, pg. 88)

1 comment:

One Man said...

So very true. Once you have experienced a glimpse of the infinite love and knowledge of God that is in store for us, none of the "counterfeits" that this world have to offer even come close.