RE: How to answer "I know that I know that I know"?
December 20, 2017 at 2:20 pm
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2017 at 2:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 20, 2017 at 8:18 am)riaaneloff Wrote: 1) God is so great, so amazing, so holy, that all the pain in the world (babies dying of cancer, entire civilizations wiped out by Israel, tsunamis killing thousands of people) is so minuscule in comparison to what he SHOULD be doing to us for being sinful, that my friend does not regard it as immoral/wrong/bad. He believes that god should actually just wipe us from the universe...BUT, god is being gracious, and only allowing some small pain.
2) He agrees that the bible may not be perfect, and that it is not the inerrant Word of God...but, he believes that the bible is a good guide, as the bible (for him) correlates to what he sees in the world today.
3) Even though he agrees that he has NO EVIDENCE for god, he holds to the fact that he just knows that he knows that he knows god is real and is part of his daily life.
So.., your friend believes that he holds a crystal ball which plainly describes how we're such lowly and fallen creatures that we deserve whatever's coming to us - and on the basis of this belief, he's content to flip a coin in his family life and wait for a ghost to sort it out?
Good luck to you both.
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