RE: Why are you (still) a Christian?
September 29, 2023 at 5:16 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2023 at 5:17 pm by Bucky Ball.)
(September 29, 2023 at 4:48 pm)tackattack Wrote: @gn and linuxgal - the list did happen. Not that it matters to either of u. Perhaps I mis-communicated. Let me rephrase, a holy God would not be threatened or intimidated as a feature of his character. A caring God could be swayed by compassion of a persons anguish. That is exactly what I meant by I can’t really threaten God. I can get angry, just like most of you have, at God. But that, from Gods perspective, isn’t threatening. Let’s not mince words though, whether I convince anyone that any of my experiences are real and the consistency of my belief is rational, you’d both just say it’s not really evidence you’d accept. We’ve crossed that bridge many miles back.
@FF well that all seems above board and honest. I can appreciate that.
I haven’t seen God grow back a limb or dismiss all suffering on the planet. I frequently have the same questions as to the POE. All I can trust are my experiences and results. I don’t know if it’s confirmation bias, statistical anomaly selection bias or anything else. From my perspective, it’s reliably consistent.
I’m not certain of how I could better critically self-analyze my experiences. Even if I , for arguments sake, took a few weeks to pray to shiva instead. I wouldn’t actually hold that belief. Blessings could still be granted to me even though I didn’t ask for them out loud. How would I determine whether they were from God, Shiva, or neither?
A caring god who can be "swayed" is not omniscient. He would have know what was going to happen.
A god that is "swayed" is not eternal, (timeless).
You really have no clue what a god thinks, "perspective", just as St. Paul told you. (:unfathomable").
Your brain activity concerning the gods is nothing but your immagination.
More people than in your hallucinations believe in Allah.
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