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Is God Just a Way of Solving a Mystery by Appealing to a Greater Mystery?

#STRask

Stand to Reason

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9601 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Questions about whether God is just a way of solving a mystery by appealing to a greater mystery, whether subjective experience falls under a category of knowing, why people in the Bible got to hear and see God but we don’t, and an analogy between God and Hitler.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the hashtag STR-ask podcast.

0:16.1

Greg Kokel is here to answer your questions.

0:18.5

And I'm Amy Hall.

0:19.9

Hi, Amy.

0:20.2

And I ask the questions. Actually, I only answer your questions. And I'm Amy Hall. And I ask the questions.

0:23.1

Actually, I only collect the questions. You ask the questions. And then I collect the questions.

0:28.7

And then I ask Greg the questions. And then you answer them too with me. So now that you know how

0:32.6

the show works, we're going to start with a question from Erica. Matt Dillahunty says God is solving a mystery by appealing to a greater mystery.

0:42.9

I guess that appealing to God is solving a mystery by appealing to a greater mystery.

0:47.8

And just so listeners know, Matt Dillahunty is an internet atheist and he has a show called The Atheist Experience.

0:53.9

I don't know if that's still going on.

0:54.9

It probably is.

0:56.5

So what would you say to that going?

0:58.6

I'll tell you what the first thing that comes to mind is.

1:02.7

So what?

1:04.8

I don't, I'm not sure I understand the significance of that observation.

1:11.2

Even if I didn't push back on it in a certain sense, like, oh, well, we're, God's not a

1:16.9

greater mystery in some ways.

1:18.4

But if I said, okay, here's a, here's a mysterious set of circumstances.

1:23.1

Now, we have an answer regarding, to make sense of this mysterious set of circuits.

1:30.0

Now it's no longer mysterious.

1:33.0

However, there still is mystery with regards to the answer.

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