IS THERE A GOD? ANY GOD? #6 HOLY LAND MAN Explaining GOD

The Evidence of Revelation



This argument for the existence of GOD is very simple: we know that GOD exists, because many people have testified that they have met Him. Even if we have not seen it ourselves, the very existence of evidence on the matter is evidence. It may not be the GOD of Moses, Mohamad, or Jesus or a GOD that is affiliated with any religious sect, but "a GOD". 



Are the testimony of many and the belief of the majority makes it a fact?



For a moment, let's not think of GOD as a religious GOD but as an entity which is superior to us. It can even be a particle. Crowds of people throughout history have described experiences of divine revelation they have had, religious or mystical experiences, visions, prophecy, and the like. Some of those experiences occurred in daydreaming, during routine activities, and some were achieved as a result of activities like meditation, or in exceptional situations like near-death experiences. 



There are many differences between the same experiences, but also many similarities are common, as William James demonstrated in his book "The Religious Experience to the Issue." Professor Yehuda Jerome Gelman, in his book "Experience of GOD and the Rationality of Theistic Belief," presented a philosophical argument that the accumulation of so much evidence constitutes proof of the existence of a GOD, just like any other phenomenon that we accept for its existence based on evidence.



The Argument of Hallucination



Many find it difficult to accept this argument. They claim that while the people who have experienced divine revelations believe in their truth, it is possible that these are all hallucinations caused by various reasons. The hallucinations can be very tangible and make a great impression on the person who experienced them, and yet they exist only in his head and not in reality.



Can we doubt tangible experiences?



The problem with this critique is that if we doubt tangible experiences that seem certain to us, and treat them as hallucinations - what can we say is true? Maybe the reality we are experiencing at the moment is also a dream or a hallucination? 



Although it seems completely tangible to us, so do the religious experiences for those who experience them. If these can be hallucinations, then our perception of reality can also be such. It will not help us to turn to other people and verify with them that they too see what we see, because those same people can be part of our hallucination, like the people we see in a dream ...



Is Religion Merely a Drug Feeling Experience?



In other words, our default is to assume that what we perceive to be true is indeed true, unless proven otherwise. There are things that seem real to us at the time, like dreams or hallucinations resulting from drug use, but once they pass we recognize that they never really came true. 



Religious and mystical experiences, on the other hand, are often perceived by those who experience them as real even decades after the experience. Anyone who claims against them "perhaps it is a delusion" can equally direct this claim towards the reality he is experiencing at the moment and question it; But if he does not do so, and does not provide an objective criterion that makes it possible to distinguish between reality and hallucination, then our default is to believe in experiences that seem real to us and treat them as part of reality. Whoever wants to claim otherwise, has the burden of proof.



Do The Different Religious Approaches Contradict "a GOD"?



I say, they are similar in the experience but different in the interpretation and the methods of what pleases their GOD. I also believe that most religions manipulate "GOD's will" so it will fit their political agenda in the form of "in the name of GOD". For me, only the source matters, the original Word of GOD in the original language of the Bible, Hebrew. Everything else is only human interpretations and self-interest