When you swore to an individual that you just moments ago had witnessed many impossible items, culminating in oh say an individual becoming slain after which rising from the dead, practically everyone would deem you that they are crazy - the exceptions mostly being discovered in institutions.
And yet if your beliefs are identical, held with the same certainty as if you had just witnessed them (in fact increased certainty than if you had witnessed them, as presumably even if you are religious you have been conditioned by reality to doubt the not possible in your actual day-to-day life) but instead of getting a witness, you understand about them inside a book or someone told you about them - then, your beliefs are unremarkable.
I'm sure it sounds like I'm ragging on religious people the following (and items getting as these are it is difficult not to sound like that in any respect instances, even if I'm just reading a shopping list) but I say this to request a specific question in regards to the epistemology of the rapturous: what is the calculus by which the second version is Reduced ridiculous than the very first? Shouldn't believing anything impossible occurred since you had been there and saw it be Much less insane than believing it happened and NOT getting personally witnessed it?
