David Bentley Hart - Theological Epistemology: How Can We Know God?
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Can we know God? If so, how? We can believe in God, but is such belief justified? How to apply the principles of epistemology to knowledge of God and belief in God? What would make belief in God justified true belief?
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That ending line is what makes Hart my absolute favorite theologian and philosopher. 10/10
I would like to lock this guy in a room with Daniel Dennett, Deepak Chopra, and Frank Tipler for a week and watch, just watch.
That would be crazy
Hart would tear them all apart sans Dennett maybe
Dennett’s head would literally explode within 24 hours .
Very nice universe, awesome God, i kinda like this.
DBH is entering his Orson Welles phase.
Is it just me or was Hart speaking way faster than usual here?
Weird editing. It's a condensed video.
Why is there a god?
Robert needs to ask the #why question.
Because there just HAS to be a god according to the rules he made up to justify beliefs he has due to his culture.
When it comes to Theological Imaginations, the question "Why" is nonsensical because The Deity is - axiomatically - "Eternal" ...
Eternal things don't have beginning and/or endings ... and The Question "Why" implies a Causal Precedent, Therefore, Temporal Notions that doesn't apply to Eternal Stuffs ...
Of Course, Humans as Contingent Entities can think about The Origin of The linguistic tokens that deploy the Capacity in The environmental System for deploying "Abstract Instructions" and the implicit "imaginary space" and/or "memories about past, present, future, The Pass of Time and "Causal Order" ...
Therefore, The Beliefs about Existence requiring an "Origin" ....
The funny thing is that Existence doesn't require an Origin to Exist .... But Humans believe that there was a"Time were Humans doesn't exist" and There will be a chance of another Times where Humans "existed" or will not exist ...
Then, we can observe How they tend to realize Anthropomorphic Models about Existence .... believing that Existence should be constrained by what they believe about themselves ....
The best thing about this interview is the expression on Robert’s face.
He's not buying it :-)
My OpenMind Stop making stuff up when it doesn’t exist
@@planc3318 it's not that implausible. Robert is an atheist.
John Smith Something you can’t tell from the video. Robert is highly professional and wouldn’t mock someone’s ideas while interviewing them, especially when it’s a strong argument. Also, he’s agnostic
The brain is just coming into coherence detection, it seems only a few hundred thousand years old; it's new and sounds different in each context but, it is *not* evasive or vague; it is descriptive and fecund.
You get to know God by listening to his voice and obey all his commands like I experienced until I learned who I AM as GOD.
Sounds like schizophrenia.
@@1DangerMouse1 I'm sure it does to you fools who don't believe how you're created in ME.
@@vids595 Some of you hate the Truth with a passion. However, when you wake up in the next generation after your body dies in this world, then you will know who I AM and where you get all your life experiences from.
GOD is Real............. or we wouldnt be having these discussions. @min 1:37 - 1:55...............
The warm fuzzy feeling I get when I play make-believe with the Great Purple Dinosaur in the sky is a direct experience of the Great Purple Dinosaur.
I mean, who can really question that. It's your qualia, after all. There's an aspect to what you described that is indescribable. So, there must be something real there. Something Great and Purplely.
When you listen you will know what Hart actually said. You just defined terms differently and then sneered at your own creation: easy, cheap, and wrong.
Sure, let's just dismiss what our epistemic peers have to say, that's a great way to broaden our understanding.
GOD has already revealed certain truths in His conversations with Neale Donald Walsch. If anyone wants to know a deeper, fuller, more advanced understanding of God and other spiritual truths, he/she better reads Conversations with God by Neale Walsch. But be prepared to have your mind shocked or be blown away since some of these truths are really hard to understand or accept.
The one thing we can know about god(s) is that it is *totally a human invention* . Just like culture ,music ,money etc it exists no where else other than in the human mind and human invention
Yes, that's what all the liars believe.
Brad Holkesvig oh I don't believe it. I accept it to be true given no other evidence.
Is your declaration a scientific fact or just your belief?
He keeps grouping all theistic religions together as "these traditions" and then unsurprisingly always ends up going back to Christianity. So close minded and simplistic. He's supposed to be this highly sophisticated theologian, but if that's the best religious people (let's face it, Christians) can offer, it's not compelling at all.
@Anthony Simpson what do you mean by "god"? How do you know that? Based on what? A book? A priest? Both? An experience? Which "god"?
@Anthony Simpson trolling? So disagreeing with you is trolling and fighting?
@Anthony Simpson how do you know Islam is a joke? How can you be so sure? You were raised Christian? Had an emotional experience and converted?
@Anthony Simpson - dude......................................
i am a GOD Believing guy..........
and this much is true...... i USED TO conduct myself as you have here(your posts HERE)...... so, by virtue of knowing what DOESNT WORK(does NOT bring "fruit"), i am politely telling you that your posts here ARE NOT HELPING ANYONE......
you are just like ALL of us....... "as oily rags" in GOD's Presence..... another sinner....... you cant just tell someone their current or past religious affiliations are "a joke"....... THAT will get you "resistance".
as a Christian, you ARE accountable to other Christians when you screw up...... you screwed up.
You havent even tried to address the questions by the other posting viewers, you only asserted your beliefs upon them......
try explaining how GOD Does Love us..... the guy in the video tried........ unless you have better methods than the guy in the video, you should just stay quiet, because you dont know how to "show GOD's Love" yet.
GOD doesnt need crappy immesaries like you or me........ you should try to Let GOD do it, and stay clear.
@The Rod
you are welcome, for my "restrained" comment.......
Thank You, my Friend, for acknowledging its compassion !
Jesus spoke in the Christian Bible on an occasion, documented in two places.....
Matthew 22:36-40 New International Version (NIV)
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
and
Mark 12:30-31 New International Version (NIV)
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
i would say this:
if a person just starts by doing these 2 things.... the second thing is even more difficult than the first thing.
but if you dont believe that GOD exists, Loving your neighbor or friends or family or Loving a total stranger and finding compassion for any of those people, would be impossible.
humans on earth cannot "know the mind of GOD"...... and Time is not our ally, so act soon....................
The more theologians explain about god, the more evident it is they are talking nonsense. And David Bently Hart is just about the most smug theologian I have heard talk about god.
@Mustafa I don't think you understand what the word tantrum means.
David Bentley Hart couches his nonsense in arcane language and slow soft patterns to give it the effect of profoundity, but it is nonsense nonetheless.
@@rumidude yeah he moved his lips and made a bunch of sounds with a very condescending tone. However, he didn't say anything of substance. He basically relies on a god of the gaps. Consciousness and qualia are mysterious. So, focus on a supposed experience of a god that is entirely private, ineffable, unknowable (except he claims to know a lot about it) and that you cannot examine scientifically (or even using critical thinking). That way, you can say whatever you want about it with no accountability.
All three of you "critical thinkers", absolutely strawman his position.
Not a good look chaps.
I'm not sure what a "critical thinker" is, but nonsense is pretty easy to spot.
[doesnt know what words mean, doesn’t look them up]
This is nonsense, this is smug, this is pointless, this is pretense, this is…
"God is infinitely in himself unknowable." Ah well this guy shouldn't act like he knows so much about it then.
@Anthony Simpson what am I claiming to know?
@Anthony Simpson
are you going to show these posts to your Pastor, and ask him "how you might have been more effective in your evangelizing"?????
the posts you have made here would turn away people from GOD........ embarrassing.
God is unknowable because you don't believe you are the GOD that gives you life experiences in the flesh.
John Smith Are you deaf? We can know about God, however, we can’t know Him rationally. Big difference
@Anthony Simpson
another poorly played strawman ploy.....
at this point i think you need to follow John Smith's book reading advice.......
and just WHO was Jesus' rabbi ? and are you equating your actions to the actions of Jesus ???? really?