(October 8, 2017 at 9:45 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(October 8, 2017 at 9:20 pm)Cyberman Wrote: If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. But they're not horses. First establish the "if", then you can speculate about the "then".
But if you are trying to establish this "if" - the searching for who be his representatives and a revelation from him, might be the best and easiest means to prove it and establish it.
That might be a good place to start; but without a working evidence filter in your toolkit, you're at risk of leaving yourself open to every predator and new age woo salesman who tells you what already fits your preconceptions.
See, if you tell me there's an angel standing behind me, the first thing I'm going to do is turn round and look. It's no good your telling me that the angel is invisible, or always moves to be just out of my sight, I'm going to want to know how you know it's there at all. I'm certainly not interested in a list of testimonials from other people who saw the angel, especially when I'm getting - at best - third-hand accounts by a friend of a friend who once heard someone telling someone else etc.
I can provide mutually compelling evidence that a rock exists, or that I exist. First do that basic thing for your god, then we have something to talk about.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
