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@RoderickSpode
Why would someone be deluded?
For many reasons and, in fact we all suffer delusions from time to time, not necessarily through mental deficiency but, for example, through overwhelming pressure.
I am talking more specifically here about delusion in the context of religious belief. Many people will claim to be religious but very few actually believe there is a God or for that matter, a son of God who was resurrected.
Someone who firmly believes there is a God or any other spiritual being is deluded.
delusional :
/dɪˈluːʒ(ə)n(ə)l/
adjective
"characterized by or holding idiosyncratic beliefs or impressions that are contradicted by reality or rational argument, typically as a symptom of mental disorder."
Believing that there is a God or that Jesus is alive is idiosyncratic and contradicted by reality or rational argument, to say the least.
I'm an atheist and I am not immune from being deluded, especially after a few drinks, sad to say.
But what I am saying is that someone who firmly believes in God is deluded a good deal of the time and many day to day decisions are influenced by his or her delusional state. For example, Steve Jobs was deluded to the extent that a multitude of spiritual remedies would cure his cancer. Experts agree that, had Jobs not shunned conventional medicine, he would have lived a lot longer.
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@fauxlaw
Your definition notwithstanding, I can just as easily challenge you to demonstrate that your skepticism has merit, and that you can demonstrate by empiric evidence that Christ does not exist. Go ahead; show me.
It is not "my" definition; it is from the Oxford dictionary and stands as being correct.
Of course I, nor anybody else can disprove the existence of something that has not been proven in the first place. That in no way gives anybody the benefit of the doubt to claim that Christ exists any more than any other absurd claim such as the existence of elephants with wings.
I detect Jesus Christ by faith, an operable sense in every respect as the other five we depend upon
Wrong. Faith is not a sense.
Faith:
2. strong belief in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof.
The so-called "sense" that you depend upon is commonly called delusion.
If you firmly believe that Christ is alive, you are clearly deluded.
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