Is Islam a true religion?
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you cant ground epistemic certainty
You just did. You grounded the claim "you can't ground epistemic certainty" in... what, exactly? If certainty is ungroundable, your statement defeats itself. What's your escape hatch here?
No i mean with your pressupositions and i will show you that. how do you know what love is?
I know love through experience, testimony, and observation, all of which are epistemically prior to your presuppositions. You're assuming I need your framework to validate knowledge. Why does grounding love require grounding certainty itself?
so you only know love through human created experience?
Experience isn't "human created," it's human *lived*. You're smuggling in a distinction without explaining it. If love exists only in your framework, why should I care what you call it?
you only know love through experience right? experience in created things
Experience of created things doesn't make love itself created. You're conflating the medium with the message. If love transcends its instances, why does grounding it in creation matter to your argument?
Okay, then when you say Allah is loving, what is the connection between the love you know from creation and the love you attribute to Allah?
You've just admitted love exists independent of creation, which demolishes your framework. If Allah's love is categorically different from created love, you can't even use the word "love" to describe it without equivocation. So which is it?
You just defeated your position? my position has a distinction between essence of God and energies of God. My position is that we can know God and ground our epistimology on our experience of uncreated energies of God that are knowable
You've smuggled in "knowable" without justification. If God's energies are truly uncreated and transcendent, why should my created mind reliably access them? You're claiming access to the transcendent while denying I can know love across categories. What makes your bridge work when mine doesn't?
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