Quote Originally Posted by Darkmatters View Post
Ok, that article seems to be trying to justify belief and faith as knowledge, in much the same way Gnosticism does. It says you can have knowledge without knowing how you know, and even without knowing that you know. If this is to be called knowledge, then the term knowledge means the same thing as belief or faith, We already have terms for those, why take another one, which most people agree means something quite different, and redefine it to mean the same thing?

You still have no way to ascertain whether the ideas garnered through intuition or emotion are accurate. Especially if they concern an invisible, intangible being who exists outside of the physical world and can't be observed in any way.

It's intellectually dishonest to use the term knowledge in this way knowing that people who aren't religious don't consider this knowledge at all. Why not just call it faith or belief? It seems like apologia, like an attempt to legitimize faith and pretend like it's somehow the same thing as facts.
Knowledge is completely different than faith. This article explains this. Knowledge can be acquired by different methods which include the five senses and logic and empirical experiments etc. but also include intuition, conscience, etc. - but some of these sources are only appropriate for certain subjects: the sources of knowledge about spiritual matters are different than the sources of knowledge about medicine, although i may still use my intuition as part of the decision making process for whether to go to the doctors or to try home remedies for another day but intuition is of only limited importance there and i am more likely to look at medical knowledge sources that are external to myself, especially doctors who have studied medicine or medical journal articles or pharmacists etc. There are different ways of acquiring knowledge. Yours is a very exclusive definition of knowledge, mine is broader. I do not dispute that your definition of knowledge is correct, I just believe that the term is broader than you define it. And your argument that this is a dishonest use of the term knowledge is not helpful to me at all. No one group owns the term "knowledge" - this is a broad complex concept that has been used for many generations with many connotations, and each person who believe a definition of knowledge believes that theirs is the correct definition. Although I believe that mine is not the only correct definition, it is however the correct definition of the term for me and for many Christians.