RE: Faith is Feelings
February 19, 2021 at 4:27 pm
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2021 at 4:37 pm by Mercyvessel.)
(February 19, 2021 at 12:18 pm)Five Wrote:(February 19, 2021 at 12:12 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: A lot of people are in the religion of their parents. As for people who change their faith practice...seems to me not to be much of a leap in the case of one Christian denomination over another.
As for your question of how would you know if a supernatural visitor was god or something evil? I don't really see that as either/or. The god of the Bible did some pretty evil stuff.
That is true. I have seen a lot of apologetics regarding the nature of God and the sacrifice of Christ that involve ignoring crucial evidence of his nature or reframing a "might makes right" ethics to be the best option.
Almighty God does not need apologists on His behalf. We will all come to discover, one way or another, that there is only one God and that He is sovereign over all because He made all things, natural and supernatural, etc (John 1:3, Colossians 1:6), and that He is in fact merciful, selfless, faithful, good, true and just. All things notwithstanding, He declares that He will have the final say. "...Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” - Hebrews 3:15
A subjective non-understanding of a person's ways does not make said ways in fact wrong.
A word, if you care to read, on God's sovereignty and righteousness -
"I am the Lord, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me, That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting That there is none besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other; I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things." - Isaiah 45:5-7
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts." - Isaiah 55:8-9
"He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he." - Deuteronomy 32:4
