Suppose
an atheist hears two scenarios:
Scenario 1: A man comes to believe Jesus is Lord by seeing a miraculous healing in church
Scenario 2: A man comes to believe Jesus is Lord by a direct, personal impartation from the Holy Spirit.
Both of those scenarios are, in fact, common in the world – but if an atheist were to reject them both as unsatisfying, he’d probably be more unsatisfied at the second than the first. Yet this is hard to justify, because Scenario 1 and Scenario 2 differ in how the belief is acquired, not in the epistemic status of the belief itself. That is, given the truth of Christianity and how God does His fundamental imparting of revelation (1 Corinthians 12:3), then unbeknown to him, the atheist’s greater discomfort with Scenario 2 is driven by accidental or psychological features, not by a genuine epistemic asymmetry.
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