Argumentele pentru existența lui Dumnezeu: argumentul din moralitate (II)

Arguments for the existence of God: the argument from morality (II)

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the views on religion of some of the philosophers, such as C. D. Broad (1887–1971) and contemporary philosophers like Richard Swinburne and Garry Gutting. They consider the common experience of the mystics to be a powerful justification or proof, for all of us, of God's existence. Others, such as William James (1842–1910), consider religious experience to be a poor justification for God's existence. In our investigation, we have found that philosophy supports the existence of a spiritual experience, called simply "religious experience" to distinguish it from the mystical. In the latter, the subject has a nominal (divine) experience in which the believer (or the subject) experiences the presence of God or of an angel or Christ or the Holy Spirit, either by speaking to him, or by defending him who has experience, or by forgiving him. During prayer, believers often experience a sense of God's presence or of the Holy Spirit.