I'm not trying to convince you that god exists, I'm just trying to convince you that these traditions are not outlandish by any means, but expressions of profound metaphysical ideas. Wether you think theyre true or not is another question.
Its mot about faith. Spirituality at its core is pure intellectual intuition. You know something because youve tsharpened your faculties to the point where you can clearly dissern the true from the untrue. Modern svience makes use of this intuition while simultaniously denying ots existenfe, or its ability to make any authoritative claims about reality.
Profane science doesnt really lay a claim on truth. Its ability to generate factual information and convert them into practically applicable solutions that have proven to be incredibly useful to humanity is undisputed; my point, or the point the video makesy, is that you cannot confidently say god doesnt exist if you havent explored all aspects of reality and are restricting truth to the realm of mere sensory experience.
Sorry if I havent resoondend to everything you said, I find these debates quite exhausting. The gap between what you and I believe is so great that its almost impossible to find common ground to build our arguments on.
The sources is James Cutsinger, former professor and religious scholar. Himself an orthodox christian. Link to the full talk is in the description.
