I have seen many argument for the existence of Christian God, how it is necessary for all sort of philosophical and physical order of the existing world. I then just wonder how futile is our physical and mental existence since all are relying on the mercy of a Deity!
One of the interesting argument is the Argument From Prophecy, namely that Christian Bible give out so many accurate foreknowledge on the future happening in the physical world, so how is it possible without a Supernatural deity behind every word of it?
My first impression is: How does the ability of foresight, which is actually a common practice in Taoism and Buddhism, demonstrate the other attributes of Christian God? i.e. How does omniscience related to two other attributes like omnipotent, benevolent? How could we, logically, start on omniscience of Christian God to arrive on the attribute of omnipotent, benevolent?
Moreover, omniscience implies accurate Prophecy; but accuracy of Prophecy doesn’t necessarily implies omniscience. Maybe a 100% accurate rate would boost the confidence in that attribute, but there is no way to prove that attribute from accuracy of Prophecy in itself. There are also many religions keen on the practice of meditation to obtain foreknowledge like Tibet Buddhism, this argument would implies that Buddhist is also a Deity with all these Christian God attributes.
My last contention with this argument coming from the study of personality by Carl Jung. In one of his characterization of personality, he use the word intuitive (versus sensing). Therefore it is an accepted part of psychology that someone may occasionally ’sense things before their happening’. There are thousands of well documented cases on this psi capability. If the argument from Prophecy is accurate, then how to explain that many intuitive people are themselves irreligious? It is not just they don’t believe in Christian God, but they don’t believe in any God from any religion at all! Since argument from Prophecy demand that to be an necessary attribute of Christian God, doesn’t it mean that we have thousands of god walking around the globe!?
我曾聽過不少證明基督教中的神存在的論據,它們大意都是自然世界和理念世界是如何如何的需要牠去維持,我即時的想法是我們的物理存在和精神存在原來是如此的脆弱,一切只依靠一個超自然神祗的同情!
其中一個較有趣的證明是由預言去證明基督教中的神是存在的,因為基督教聖經曾有不少準確的預言,如果不是真有其神,聖經中一字一句何以有如此準確的預測,先知不就是代表了字宙是由基督教中的神主宰?基督教中的神存在不就是站在聖經預言背後的一字一句中嗎?
我的印象是提出此說的人一定不是東方人,因為他/她不知道佛教、道教也有相當豐富的訓練預言者的傳統,請問基督教中的神的特性又如何從佛教、道教的預言可訓練性彰顯出來呢?難道是比基督教歷史更悠長的佛教、道教是源自於基督教嗎?還是佛教、道教的預言其實是自基督教的聖經!?另外,由預言所引證的基督教的神全知的特性又如何可以推導出全善和全能這兩個同樣是基督教的神的特性呢?我們如何用邏緝由全知的特性推導出全善和全能呢?
更重要的一點是,基督教的神全知當然代表了聖經的預言一定是100%準碓,就算是0.1%的錯誤也不可以接受;相反,聖經的預言就算是100%準碓也不可以引出基督教的神是全知的結論。聖經的預言準確只能合理地增加我們對基督教的神是全知的信心,它本身卻不能直接代表基督教的神是全知。同時,不少其他宗教都集中訓練他們信徒的預知能力,包括箸名的藏傳佛教,不單有預言,更有進的一步的用轉世靈童來引證預言的歷史傳統,如此一來,依由預言去證明基督教中的神是存在的邏緝,藏傳佛教中的神祉當然也是基督教中的神了,好一個有容乃大!
最後一點來自容格對性格的分類,其中一項分類是感覺對直覺(作者是直覺),所以心理學基本上已接受了部份人是有先知先覺的能力,事未發生便已知道,還有在超心理學大量的實驗數據證明不少人都有未卜先知的能力。如果由預言去證明基督教中的神是存在的邏緝是對的,又如何解釋當中有不少受測試者不單是不信基督教,更是沒有宗教信仰的呢?再依預知能力是為基督教中的神被視為存在必要特性,豈不是隨街都是神在行走?