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[edit] Views of Agnostic theism
Many views exsist depending on how Theism, Agnosticism, Belief, and Knowledge are defined.
[edit] Theism as belief in god(s), Agnosticism as don't/can't know
- According to Theism, the opinion that gods or deities exist, and Agnosticism is that exsistance unknown or inherently unknowable. Belief defined as a conviction of the truth of a proposition without its verification. Agnosticism does not violate this, and this definition of theism does not violate agnosticism.
- According to Fideism this logic statement was used:
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- Christian theology teaches that people are saved by faith in the Christian god. (i.e. trust in the empirically unprovable).
- But, if the Christian God's existence can be proven, either empirically or logically, to that extent faith becomes unnecessary or irrelevant.
- Therefore, if Christian theology is true, no immediate proof of the Christian God's existence is possible.
- This modus tollens follows:
- 1. Faith is important.
- 2. If Existence of Christian God can be proven, faith is not important.
- Therefore
- 4. Existence of Christian God cannot be proven.
- see also, Sola fide
- According to Faith "Faith, by its very nature, requires belief outside of known fact." or is this taking out of context?
- According to Existence of God: Agnosticism "Agnostics may or may not still believe in gods based on Fideilistic convictions."
[edit] Theism as belief, Agnosticism as doubt of god
[edit] Christian Atheism
A position that would qualify as agnostic theist, is the mechanics of change that are intrinsic to this belief system; or that it is a temporary state of doubt. In short, a theist becomes an agnostic theist when they lose their confidence in the existence of a divinity to some degree but still choose to believe in it. Theists may admit that they experience such doubts that they do not wish to question, in which case they become an agnostic theist. If they experience something that assures them of the existence of some form of divinity, then they will no longer qualify as agnostic theists.
[edit] Theism as belief in knowing of god(s), Agnosticism as doubt of god
- According to Theologies opposed to fideism, other christian views such as Catholicism, Theism requires 100% belief with no doubt at all, and Agnosticism is a form of doubt.
