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Is Christianity compatible with Objective Bayesian Epistemology?
Can belief in God, miracles, angels, demons, the resurrection, souls, an afterlife, and similar doctrines be justified within the framework of Objective Bayesian Epistemology?
All those things* can ...
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Is Christianity compatible with Objective Bayesian Epistemology?
Bayesian theory... The formula is "P(A|B)=P(B|A)P(A)/P(B)" (I'm not getting into that, but see here for equations and reasoning)
Well I assume the works of those who find this work from ...
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Is Christianity compatible with Objective Bayesian Epistemology?
That sounds entirely antithetical to the principles of Christian faith, because the first principle is faith, which can be described in epistemological terms as a very strong "prior" meant ...
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What about people like me who know God exists but don't have faith in God?
I wish to add onto Wyrsa's answer with the observation that, even in the presence of compelling rational evidence, it is still entirely possible (if not likely) for man to reject God. The following ...
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What about people like me who know God exists but don't have faith in God?
Frame problem.
The issue here is that you assume Faith and Knowledge are incompatible with each other. This is quite the opposite in actuality.
Well the train of thought within your question seems ...
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What about people like me who know God exists but don't have faith in God?
This is an astonishing question that may well be closed for actually being all about personal opinion, but while it remains open, there is an important point that needs to be made, from the Bible.
God ...
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What about people like me who know God exists but don't have faith in God?
James 2:19 says "You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that – and shudder." Believing is not the same as having faith/being faithful.
Faith, according to the ...
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