quote]None of the anecdotal stories are evidence for God as you claim.
I don't believe he claimed they were evidence for God in any sense that would convince an outside observer not having those same experiences.
The evidence is of your mentality. They are evidence that your God box is extremely limited to emotional feelings only.
He mentioned feelings but also a number of other perceptual experiences, including auditoryl and visual. Did you miss that?
Again, you attempt to declare truth by assertion. Even if all your stories are your perception or your experience, they offer nothing which is open to testing, skeptical review, or objective analysis for some entity that one might consider rises to the level of evidence for God.
The problem here is of an a priori assumption against God's existence combined with an a priori presumption of the primacy of the kind of evidence and methodology useful in studying bacteria over any other kind of evidence or methodology. In other words, whatever you might say about Nehor's experiences, you mind is closed, a priori, to any methodology or approach by which you could apprehend truths beyond those accessible through empirical means. In other words, you cannot critique Nehor's claimed spiritual experiences using the methadology of empirical science. Science cannot be used to verify spiritual things because the mortal, human mind, or which science is a construct, is perceptually incapable of verifying them through those very means. In other words, you are holding spiritual things to a standard that creates the very opacity of spiritual things of which you are so aware. The frog in the well thinks that is the extent of the universe in which he exists. If he had a telescope, he would know otherwise. We think the material universe is all there is, but if we approach God with faith and humility, our perceptions are opened to other realms that our physical senses and unaided intellects cannot perceive. Attempting to use a methodology created and therefore delimited and conditioned by that very mortal intellect will only further reflect those very mortal limitations. One must use other means to open one's understanding to spiritual things. This is ultimately, while not hostile to reason, much more a matter of faith and imagination.
You really do have a very tiny God.
Why could it not be equally as plausible that you, as the rest of us, have a tiny mind?
