Hume is also trying to end in his mind, what he thinks is superstition. He thinks that when we start to think clearly about religion, we will start to lose our belief in it. Again he is using the argument that is stated in the above paragraph. Hume’s criticisms are not aimed to tell you that religious beliefs are false, instead he does not agree with the evidence given to support their convictions. He says the only advantage to holding onto religious beliefs or being able to support them, is that you could give an unbeliever reason to share your beliefs. If you think that there is rational evidence for beliefs, then you can go out and share them and get others to believe the same.
Again, Christianity holds without the miracles, for in the beginning, there were no miracles that were talked about. Here is where a fideist is true. A fideist is someone who is willing to stick to their religious beliefs without having to see proof or miracles, so they just have faith. The advantage is that they are what people would be without miracles and that they are what would carry the church if all the other proofs and miracles did not occur anymore, for Jesus even said that "Blessed are they who believe without seeing, for the kingdom of God is theirs."
Hume now goes on to say that we can never for certain know that miracles do exist. He says that the closest thing we have to believe in miracles is the transgressions of a law of nature our beliefs in nature are the strongest. He says that otherwise, evidence and witnesses can be wrong, and so the evidence found must be compelling enough that its falsehood breaks laws of nature. For these reasons, we will never have enough or strong enough evidence to prove that a miracle occurred. Again, since we depend on experience, as Hume states, to know or explain what we see and what goes on, how can we know what a miracle is or looks like, such as similar as the example that you have no reason to believe that this world is incomplete and needs work, because you have never seen a completed world.
This turns into his argument of knowing God through experience. Not only can we not know God from experience of miracles, but he again uses the idea that since we have never experienced God, we cannot define him or what he is. This we can use with the argument of mathematics. We have never experienced infinite, a line, a plane or many other mathematical things, but we use them in many equations and in understanding other things. Humans are capable of comprehending things that we do not entirely understand.
Hume’s arguments do not hold, because of the strong beliefs and ideas of humans before the knowing of miracles and the like. There is something innate about humans that tell them that something is most likely there. The beginnings of the universe, the creation of life, these things and others just do not appear from nowhere. This is the same thing that makes people know what good and bad are. You cannot believe in God, but something still tells you that killing a baby is wrong and to help someone is right. It is the feeling inside of us that does this to you. This is Hume’s idea of morality. This is because of how we think; one act would affect the world. Therefore, when we see one person doing many good acts, we think of them as a good person. We cannot infer that in another world a divinity would change the small problems of this world. Where ever we have beliefs based on experience we can go as far as experience lets us go, but no further. This is Hume’s idea of understanding. Again, if one points out the mathematical explanations, this does not hold. He says we cannot transcend experience, so we have no idea of immortality. We get all idea from experience. Solid beliefs come from observing constant occurrences of something. The only beliefs that will stand up are beliefs that give you strong imperial evidence. Scepticism leads to moderation in views and that is good.
The changing of these views leads us to still show that Hume is wrong in that faith, infinite, and God still exists in human minds, even though we have never experienced him fully. As shown, time did not always have miracles on text to show them the way. We have faith and hope, and for many that is still all they have or need.
