(October 15, 2017 at 4:09 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(October 15, 2017 at 3:54 pm)Astreja Wrote: But what if the "reminder from God" is just a figment of our own or someone else's imagination? How do we determine whether the founder and successors are authentic, or just deluded?
That is an important question. And again a reminder from God and it's interpreters best hold those answers.
No, that's an extremely poor method to use. What you have done is created a self-referential loop, calling upon an alleged god to demonstrate that the god itself is real. It could easily be no more than imagination, and traditions based upon imagination.
Quote:You don't know it's true before knowing it's true. But giving different books a try, and one of them might hold all the answers you were looking for and more.
The search for wisdom is good no matter what. There is no harm in seeking wisdom.
This may be difficult for you to accept, MK, but I'm actually not looking for any answers in a spiritual sense. For instance, I'm not upset at the prospect of having a limited life span and then ceasing to exist. I've had to confront death often enough (attending dying relatives and dying pets) that it's a natural part of life for me.
