Exactly what is a agnostic theist... simple explanations only.
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It sounds like a contradiction to me: a meaningless statement. A "theist" believes in God. An agnostic holds that one cannot know, or that nobody knows. The two are incompatible logically... someone's going to have to do a lot of handwaving to get them to fit into the same model.
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Someone who believes in God, but isn't 100% percent sure about it.
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A gnostic is someone who understnads the nature of God, therefore an agnostic is someone who doesn't understand the nature of God. An agnostic theist is someone who believes in god but does not understand Him nor how He works.
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An agnostic theist is one who views that the truth value of certain claims, in particular the existence of god(s) is unknown or inherently unknowable but chooses to believe in god(s) in spite of this. "Agnosticism" generally is an epistemological (philosophy of knowledge) view, usually about some specific thing or class of things, although one can hold it about everything, in which case you're basically a skeptic, about knowability. You can believe without knowing (having epistemic certainty). Often agnostic theists don't or feel they can't define what "god" means (which is really screwed up, in my opinion, because it means they "believe" in something named "god", which is horribly circular). If you really analyze them carefully, most religious traditions are actually agnostic - they preach faith without evidence, without the possibility of evidence, which translated means belief without knowledge.
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Generally as I have interpreted it to mean, it's someone who doesn't feel comfortable believing 100% in God until there is some proof that makes THEM satisfied that he does exist.
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An agnostic theist is someone who believes that some sort higher power probably exists, but there is insufficient empirical evidence to make this claim with absolute certainty. They continue to explore the issue because although there is no absolute proof, they hold that there is still enough evidence to make that matter worth further investigation.
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I consider myself an agnostic theist...i believe in God...i just havent found what way i want to go about worshiping Him...i believe that most monotheistic religions are just like languages...theres a hundred different ways to say the same thing...
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Unfortunately there is no simple explantion. It is one who has faith enough to believe that god exists based on surrounding evidence because absolute proof is unobtainable no matter how one examines it, ie: the belief in gravity even though we see its effects we still dont know its origins, how it works or what it actually is. Therefore we cant say for sure that it exists we can only say we believe it does based on surrounding evidence. The same can be said about time. So even though agnostic theists feel it cannot be proven that god exists or doesnt exist, it is still possible to believe that there is a God.
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