Lol. It's so silly. Bill Craig was asked this same question too and the example was Mormons. If Mormons have the same method as you and come out saying they are right, how do you know you are right? His answer was basically, well, of course Mormons are wrong...there are just reasons to think that. I have defeaters, he suggested But oddly, his whole point was...even if there is 1 in a million chance Christianity (as he sees it) is true its worth believing. He put the bar for evidence all the way to the floor, suggesting even if there was good reason to think Christianity is not true, he'd still be justified in believing it because he had a witness of the Holy Ghost.Rivendale wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 4:50 pmBednar was supposedly asked this question. If a Mormon and a person of another faith use the same epistemological method to arrive at the truthfulness of their faith who is right? He claimed they are all deceived because Mormons have keys and authority. Then he said he had to go.bill4long wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 2:31 am
That one made me spit up V8 out of my nose. My Hindu, Catholic, and Pentecostal friends, who are very much into spiritual experiences and "confirmations", would take great exception with your statement.
A better way to put it is this: if everyone who has spiritual experiences about (what they think is) God are deceived, then there is no way to find anything out about God. That may actually be true. But just because Mormons are deceived, it doesn't mean everyone else is. Your statement has an unstated assumption: that the method Mormons use to "find out about God" is the only valid (or even a valid) method to find stuff out about God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp5MK1GP3OM&t=1164s
For some reason when I hear Bednar speak i think of William Lane Craig often.