How do you know you're right?

**edward82** · 05-17-2007, 01:56 AM

How do you know that what you believe is right? Can you? Is it possible to know? To answer 'you can't know' seems to be threatening to many, even to myself, and especially to those who say, "you don't need to know, that's why its called faith" (who are ironically the same people who define faith as being sure of things hoped for. Being sure.... is that not knowing?).

Why is it so hard to say for us to say 'you can't know'? Maybe because our entire well-being is totally contingent upon our belief structure. It has been said, "Theology is the discipline that orders life."

However, most people don't answer 'you can't know' because they believe that you can. Most people believe they know truth because they learned it, reasoned it, felt it, or read some set of Holy Scriptures. The funny things is: it's the same story across the board. The Americanized Christian has the same argument as the Shaolin priest in Japan. Everybody thinks they're right. I guess it would be pretty scary if they didn't know the truth.

So here are the options:
1) knowledge of the truth is possible, which makes a lot of people wrong and a few right
2) or you just can't know, but only hope that you're close to some truth

**avatar4321** · 05-17-2007, 03:00 AM

Or you could just go to the source, ask God and listen to His answer. Worked for me.

**darin** · 05-17-2007, 07:41 AM

From my experience, those who argue against faith by "How do you KNOW you are right?" are simply too afraid to make a decision.

**glockmail** · 05-17-2007, 07:59 AM

I know that I'm right becasue I've weighed all the scientific evidence and came up with the only logical conclusion: God created the universe and Jesus is God.

**shattered** · 05-17-2007, 08:22 AM

I don't know that I'm right in anything.. but I feel secure in the knowledge that I make the right choices for me, and if one of them happens to be wrong, I'm willing to accept whatever the consequences are, should there be any.

**Doniston** · 05-17-2007, 09:06 AM

Originally Posted by avatar4321

Or you could just go to the source, ask God and listen to His answer. Worked for me.

Immagination.--- You ask an imaginary figure a figurative question, and you imagine an answer, and of course it is the answer you were hoping for.

**shattered** · 05-17-2007, 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by Doniston

Immagination.--- You ask an imaginary figure a figurative question, and you imagine an answer, and of course it is the answer you were hoping for.

Who are you to decide what is imaginary and what is not to anyone other than yourself?

**GW in Ohio** · 05-17-2007, 11:20 AM

Originally Posted by glockmail

I know that I'm right becasue I've weighed all the scientific evidence and came up with the only logical conclusion: God created the universe and Jesus is God.

It's hardly logical to say, "Jesus is God."

You can say that you believe it, but you're not gonna get there through logical reasoning.

**Pale Rider** · 05-17-2007, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by dmp

From my experience, those who argue against faith by "How do you KNOW you are right?" are simply too afraid to make a decision.

Or simply have no faith.

**Pale Rider** · 05-17-2007, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by GW in Ohio

It's hardly logical to say, "Jesus is God."

You can say that you believe it, but you're not gonna get there through logical reasoning.

Jesus is the "son" of God. You have to have "faith" that that is true. Most religons of the world require some leap of faith. Logic has nothing to do with it.

**gabosaurus** · 05-17-2007, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by Pale Rider

Jesus is the "son" of God. You have to have "faith" that that is true. Most religons of the world require some leap of faith. Logic has nothing to do with it.

I totally agree with Pale on this. All religions are faith based. You have to believe in the word of God. Religion is a belief. God approves of different religious faiths, just as he approves of different languages and different cultures. Religious, cultural and ethnic struggles go back to the dawn of man. They are portrayed in the Bible.
God speaks to believers. Those who do not believe are not required to listen.

**typomaniac** · 05-17-2007, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by gabosaurus

I totally agree with Pale on this. All religions are faith based. You have to believe in the word of God. Religion is a belief. God approves of different religious faiths, just as he approves of different languages and different cultures. Religious, cultural and ethnic struggles go back to the dawn of man. They are portrayed in the Bible.
God speaks to believers. Those who do not believe are not required to listen.

You and Pale agreeing has got to be one of the signs of the apocalypse.

**Doniston** · 05-17-2007, 02:26 PM

Originally Posted by shattered

Who are you to decide what is imaginary and what is not to anyone other than yourself?

it is my opinion. and I stick with it. your's is likely to be different, Dos is der vaight der ball vippen.

**Doniston** · 05-17-2007, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by gabosaurus

I totally agree with Pale on this. All religions are faith based. You have to believe in the word of God. Religion is a belief. God approves of different religious faiths, just as he approves of different languages and different cultures. Religious, cultural and ethnic struggles go back to the dawn of man. They are portrayed in the Bible.
God speaks to believers. Those who do not believe are not required to listen.

and we don't. instead, we laugh a lot.

**darin** · 05-17-2007, 02:37 PM

Having Faith, however, in Christ IS Logical.

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