There’s a serious tension in your position. If truth is merely a lie people choose to believe, then your own statement cannot claim to be true. Likewise, if God is entirely subjective, then there is no basis for knowing that the god of this world is the Demiurge rather than something else.
To say, "I know the Demiurge is the god of this world," is already to appeal to something objective, something independent of preference. My argument isn't about accepting someone else's definition of God. It's about whether there must be an objective referent that makes any claim about reality, truth, or God intelligible in the first place, and what objectivity even is in the first place.
I appreciate the Father's Day wishes, thank you.
There’s a serious tension in your position. If truth is merely a lie people choose to believe, then your own statement cannot claim to be true. Likewise, if God is entirely subjective, then there is no basis for knowing that the god of this world is the Demiurge rather than something else.
To say, "I know the Demiurge is the god of this world," is already to appeal to something objective, something independent of preference. My argument isn't about accepting someone else's definition of God. It's about whether there must be an objective referent that makes any claim about reality, truth, or God intelligible in the first place, and what objectivity even is in the first place.