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WolfpackN64 on 23 August 2018
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JWeinCom said:
WolfpackN64 said:

I believe God exists (due to personal experience and the arguments I've researched). I believe there are good arguments for believing. But it would be presumtuous of me to claim I can at the same time disprove all atheistic arguments and do so decisively. I have an awnser for most of them, but to say I can fundamently destroy them? No. If I would make it my lives work, perhaps I could uproot one or two, but since I'm a more positively inclined person, I'd rather strengthen religious arguments instead. Since I also believe these arguments are not perfect (which does not mean they're false).

You don't need to be able to disprove arguments.  The person who is making an argument has to demonstrate it to be true.  We don't just assume it's true until proven false.

For example, if I wanted to say that god doesn't exist, (a claim I would generally avoid making) it would be my job to prove it, or rather support it.  If I can't adequately support it, it would not be justified to believe it, whether or not you could actually disprove it.

Likewise, if you want to claim that god exists, you would have to provide evidence for it to be justified.  I may be unable to counter the arguments (especially because many of them are designed in such a way to be unfalsifiable), but that doesn't mean you are justified in believing it.  

I'm also not quite sure what you mean by atheist arguments.  The only real valid atheist argument I've heard is that theists have yet to provide a good reason to believe in a god. 

I believe the reasons stated to be good reasons that are yet inconclusive for the very reason that there is so much debate around it. We can at the most use abductive and introspective reasoning here (for now). So both sides are eventually limited to building claims on one side and refuting it on the other.

Knowledge is a true belief that is formed through the success of your cognitive or perceptive faculties. Both sides have their respective believes (the existive of God or not) and there have been cognitive and perceptive successes on the side of belief (which has sparked many an argument of course). Both sides however struggle to definitively show that their belief is true.

For me, the matter is pretty conclusive. I have experienced God, so I know my belief is true and therefore I know of his existence. I do fully understand that won't sway many atheists though so the debate and building and destroying of arguments continue.