The Koran makes self-contradictory claims. That’s how I know it’s false. Mohammed claimed to speak for God, and the Koran says the Bible is from God. Yet Mohammed contradicted God.
God has revealed himself. Every worldview other than Christianity falls on its face. So it’s either Christianity, or total lack of knowledge. Yet it is unlivable to suggest that we have no knowledge. No one lives in accordance with that claim. Even the claim that “we have no knowledge” is itself a claim to knowledge.
Ultimately I know for two reasons: 1) the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit and 2) the evidence that confirms the Bible, along with disconfirming all competing truth claims.
All houses are built on sand.
Not God’s house! I base my worldview on Scripture, and the evidence by and large lines up with exactly what I would expect to see (including these very conversations we’re having). If I look at competing claims, like for example evolutionary atheism, they fail utterly by comparison. See:
Yes, our sin is the reason for it. Prior to the Fall, God walked openly in the Garden with Adam.
No, not really. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Loving God is the end. “Perfect love casts out fear.”
No, I don’t agree. It is “selfish” in that we are seeking the greatest good for ourselves. That’s not evil. The greatest good we can have is to live in communion with God forever. That kind of “selfishness” is aligned with love for God AND fear of God, and is not an evil.