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key concept of religious experience

             (a) Analyse the key concepts of religious experience as an argument for the existence of God.
             A religious experience can be described as one which enables God to be seen as a direct object of that experience. It is a non-empirical occurrence which can appear to be supernatural and drives the recipient to become closer to God although there are no ways to prove it. The experience is usually undergone by an individual which makes it difficult to prove as it is personal to that person. There is even evidence to show that members of the bible underwent religious experiences both in the Old and New Testament. In the Old Testament Abraham convinced that he had encountered God through the burning bush and in the New Testament God is experienced through human life. Evidently there are many different forms of religious experience, classified by their end result. There are Mystical experiences, which involve the spiritual recognition of truths beyond normal understanding. There are Prayer experiences which are brought about during reflection and meditation. There are experiences which can be life changing usually called conversion experiences. .
             Religious experience as an argument for the existence of God is an a priori argument. It is therefore based on experience rather than logic and as long as the experience is reliable it could lead to a conclusion which is also reliable. If the experience may be interpreted in different ways then there may be different conclusions derived from it. Since it is subjective to a persons experience it is therefore difficult to prove because many different conclusions not all leading back to the existence of God could be accepted by the individual. Take the parable of the two gardens. One person sees order in a garden and therefore assumes it is made by a gardener at work. Another, looking at the same garden sees that the order of the garden could be there just by chance.


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