RE: If "god" wants to talk to me... [new video]
February 16, 2017 at 2:55 am
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2017 at 3:01 am by MTL.)
Drich,
I deliberately avoided this for days because I figured your reply would be exhaustive and yet redundant,
and you didn't disappoint.
Once again, Drich, you assume, and assume, and assume.
You assume that I expected or hoped God would fit a certain expectation.
This couldn't be further from the truth.
You basically accuse anyone who hasn't come to the same conclusions you've come to,
MUST simply be guilty of not humbling themselves enough.
But again, you weren't there. You are not god. You were not privy to what I said to God.
Do you believe that GOD and TRUTH are basically synonymous....that GOD is the TRUTH behind all things?
It is, logically, IMPOSSIBLE to serve the pursuit of TRUTH
(and therefore, the pursuit of GOD, assuming they are, in fact, one and the same)
as long as you are prepared to accept the teachings of a book that tells you what to BELIEVE,
....and tells you to believe it, unquestioningly.
The pursuit of the TRUTH
is incompatible with BLIND ACCEPTANCE of the bible.
Therefore the god of the bible has nothing to do with truth.
While it is fine to have a hypothesis,
one CANNOT serve the pursuit of the TRUTH,
with any degree of integrity,
unless one is prepared to jettison any and all BELIEFS.
Because BELIEF is not the same thing as TRUTH;
in fact, they are often opposites.
God gave me a brain, and I can only assume that He holds me responsible for using it to the best of my ability.
Having faith that God exists, is one thing.
Blind acceptance of a closed-minded book as being the Word of God, is quite another.
It is not something a God who is synonymous with TRUTH would expect me to do.
It sounds to me like it is you who have decided that God can only be what you conclude He must be,
based on the book of your choice,
and you reject whatever form other people, just as earnest as you, may have found God to be,
based on a different book of choice;
and so convinced of this, are you, that you fail to see the double-standard you're presenting me with:
You accuse me of failing to accept God however He might be;
yet you then turn around and say He is only what you believe Him to be,
and if I don't find Him in that form, then it is I who am either misguided,
or who failed to humble herself.
Such convoluted reasoning.
I don't object to your having faith that God exists.
I don't even particularly object to your cherishing a certain belief structure about what God is or what God wants;
(even if I think you're kidding yourself)
but what I really object to is the arrogance with which you tell others what they are thinking
(IE: telling me I had expectations of God's parameters or wishes...which I did not)
and the arrogance with which you tell others that their failure to find what you profess to have found
is due to their own lack of humility
(which, again, you do not know, you were not privy to what I said to God during my leap of faith).
I deliberately avoided this for days because I figured your reply would be exhaustive and yet redundant,
and you didn't disappoint.
Once again, Drich, you assume, and assume, and assume.
You assume that I expected or hoped God would fit a certain expectation.
This couldn't be further from the truth.
You basically accuse anyone who hasn't come to the same conclusions you've come to,
MUST simply be guilty of not humbling themselves enough.
But again, you weren't there. You are not god. You were not privy to what I said to God.
Do you believe that GOD and TRUTH are basically synonymous....that GOD is the TRUTH behind all things?
It is, logically, IMPOSSIBLE to serve the pursuit of TRUTH
(and therefore, the pursuit of GOD, assuming they are, in fact, one and the same)
as long as you are prepared to accept the teachings of a book that tells you what to BELIEVE,
....and tells you to believe it, unquestioningly.
The pursuit of the TRUTH
is incompatible with BLIND ACCEPTANCE of the bible.
Therefore the god of the bible has nothing to do with truth.
While it is fine to have a hypothesis,
one CANNOT serve the pursuit of the TRUTH,
with any degree of integrity,
unless one is prepared to jettison any and all BELIEFS.
Because BELIEF is not the same thing as TRUTH;
in fact, they are often opposites.
God gave me a brain, and I can only assume that He holds me responsible for using it to the best of my ability.
Having faith that God exists, is one thing.
Blind acceptance of a closed-minded book as being the Word of God, is quite another.
It is not something a God who is synonymous with TRUTH would expect me to do.
It sounds to me like it is you who have decided that God can only be what you conclude He must be,
based on the book of your choice,
and you reject whatever form other people, just as earnest as you, may have found God to be,
based on a different book of choice;
and so convinced of this, are you, that you fail to see the double-standard you're presenting me with:
You accuse me of failing to accept God however He might be;
yet you then turn around and say He is only what you believe Him to be,
and if I don't find Him in that form, then it is I who am either misguided,
or who failed to humble herself.
Such convoluted reasoning.
I don't object to your having faith that God exists.
I don't even particularly object to your cherishing a certain belief structure about what God is or what God wants;
(even if I think you're kidding yourself)
but what I really object to is the arrogance with which you tell others what they are thinking
(IE: telling me I had expectations of God's parameters or wishes...which I did not)
and the arrogance with which you tell others that their failure to find what you profess to have found
is due to their own lack of humility
(which, again, you do not know, you were not privy to what I said to God during my leap of faith).
