It is Logically Impossible to Experience God

It is Logically Impossible to Experience God

1. Objection to Religious Experience is derived from Imannuel KANT

   • Argues that our senses can only experience things in the empirical realm
     • (Referred to as PHENOMENA)
     • There may be a reality beyond our experience
       • (NOUMENA)
       • This is impossible for us to experience it as a matter of logic

2. Perhaps a clearer way to express this is to say that given our human senses are finite and limited

   • It is impossible for humans to experience an unlimited God

3. Counter Argument

   • Whilst accepting that humans can't cause an experience with God, it may be possible for humans to experience God
     • If He chooses to reveal himself to them
     • William Alston
       • Argues that religious experience is similar to our normal sensory perception
       • There may be an aspect of our human minds that is able to experience God
     • C.D.Broad
       • Gave an interesting analogy of a society of blind people where some evolve the capacity to see
       • Those who were still blind would be sceptical of the information given by those who could now see