So using your logic Gravity waves didn't exist until they were discovered!
I have no idea how what I posted leads to this conclusion, unless it's a "tongue-in-cheek" comment.
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If there is smoke then that warrants more analysis and when science catches up we can ascertain if there is a fire--God--- or not.
But I don't understand how someone can say I'm an atheist because there is insufficient evidence.IMO there is plenty of evidence documented through history.The smoke is the sensation and impressions individuals have felt that has been called numinosity.
What is the "plenty of evidence (that is) documented through history"? I am not aware of such evidence; only of opinions. And which God provides such evidence?
Science catching up? If someone is ahead of science please ask him/her to give science a helping hand to catch up - to what, I'm not sure.
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An experience that occursindependent of the person’s will. It is caused by the awareness of a visibleobjector the influence of an invisible presence, resulting in an alteration of consciousness.
It is a paradox,containing bothpositive andnegativequalities that we mayexperience simultaneously.
Somepositive qualitiesof the numinosum include: sublimity, awe, excitement, bliss, rapture, exaltation, entrancement, fascination,attraction, allure and what Otto called an “impelling motive power.”
Negatives include: overwhelment, fear,trembling, weirdness, eeriness, humility, urgency, stupor, bewilderment,horror, mental agitation, repulsion, and haunting, daunting, monstrous feelings that “overbrim the heart.”Numinosity isthatquality that gives religious ideas theirthrilling power.A variety of historical figures have tried to put into words their experience of the numinous.
St. Paul spoke of it as thepeacewhich passes all understanding.
In the 14th century, Meister Eckhart described it as the “primal bottom”groundingthe soul.
Two centuries later Martin Luther referred to the numinous as the deus absconditus etincomprehensibilis, the hiddenandincomprehensibleGod.
In the 18th century Friedrich Schleiermacher suggested the numinous was theintuitionandfeelingof the infinite.
The 19th century cultural historian John Ruskin described the instinctiveawe, mixed withdelight;an indefinablethrillthat he got inthe presence of the numinous.
The American psychologist William James, studied the varieties of religious experience and referred to the numinous as asenseof reality, afeelingof objective presence, a perception of …somethingthere.
The numinous can feed the hunger of the soul and provide feelingsof liberation and relief.As much as it is ineffable, the numinous is also ineluctable, it cannot be ignored. It controls our fate and can work a major transformation in us, e.g. in conversion experiences, in situations that produce emotional shocks, or, more pleasantly, in moments of illumination.
This doesn't all make sense to me. Where it seems to contain some sense is only the result of a great deal of guessing on my part. I only see opinions shrouded in the mystery that comes from imprecise descriptions and fancy undefined jargon.
