Dr Lewis maintains that there is an accumulation of evidence in the life of a believer that becomes self-authenticating. In this sense religious beliefs can be claimed by the believer to be valuable and true. The sense of their being true would not be the same sense as when scientists assert that a claim is true. In the later sense the claim has been empirically verified. In the former sense in the religious form of life or language game the religious belief is self authenticated as being a fulfillment of what was expected by believing in the claim. It is so authenticated by individual believers each in his or her own way. In the latter sense of true there is a public process of verifying the claim by a community of scientists. So it is the same word true but with two different meanings in the two different languages: science and faith.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:35:39 +0000
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