RE: If I met Him...
January 10, 2021 at 7:24 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2021 at 8:56 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(January 10, 2021 at 12:02 pm)Five Wrote: In the end, even if you gave me a step by step to touching Christ physically and meeting with him, I would not be able to see him as anything other than another man, a physical being. Even if he showed examples of his powers. Sooo...an alien? Which I will not accept as a "God" nor will I worship.
Why do you think you have this either/or approach? You seem to want the term God to describe something unrealistic, otherwise anything that begins to sound realistic you will no longer give the label of God to.
In my observations, scripture uses many different labels for "that being" of which God is just one. For example, Rock, Father, Healer, Shepherd, Potter, King, etc. Each label carries with it some particular aspect that describes him, without necessarily confining him to it (God isn't a literal rock). In many ways the term God probably serves the same function. It is as artificial as the term king, and yet it helps us understand his nature in some way. So personally, calling that being an extraterrestrial is acceptable insofar as that term is compatible with the biblical description.
As far as worship is concerned. My understanding is that it is offered because of what he did (creator, redeemer), not necessarily because of who he is (divine being).
