Your response presupposes that you can determine the validity of someone else's subjective experience (a message from God). You can't. Only they can determine that.
Wrong. I am claiming that subjective claims can be verified or disproved. You are claiming that they must be accepted as reasonable, regardless.
Example.
A person tells me they are hovering 6 inches above the ground.
Observation suggests they are not. I can test this by unsuccessfully attempting to insert a sheet of paper between their feet and the ground.
You insist that my observation and tests are irrelevant because only what they believe is happening counts.
The absence of evidence is not evidence of illegitimacy. This is simple, basic, logic.
Regardless of the fact that it can be, absence of evidence is certainly legitimate grounds for scepticism.
I believe I have no reason (or evidence upon which) to accept OR reject your claim. And I have no need to.
Good for you.
So why do you feel the need to reject other people's claims even when you have no evidence upon which to base that rejection?
Only they have the evidence (of their subjective experience), so only they can legitimately judge it. And only they need to.
Firstly, there
is evidence on which to reject claims about gods and their behaviour. It ranges from the complete absence of evidence for, and the failure of every attempt to demonstrate, the supernatural - though irrational claims - to the scientific and historical errors in holy texts.
Second, this is a "religion debate" forum. The whole point of it is to make and challenge religious claims. If you are uncomfortable with it, you know there the "log out" button is.
Finally, "subjective experience" is not "evidence". We know the brain can produce experiences that are entirely imaginary, despite seeming entirely real to the subject. (Or are you claiming that the liquid dragons seen by someone on acid
actually exist simply because the person imagined them?)
