RE: Personal revelation vs. free will
August 23, 2012 at 1:25 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2012 at 1:27 pm by Cyberman.)
What do I mean by "the One True Faith™? Ok, I'll hold your hand for you. Are all the thousands of different religious faiths true, or lead to the truth (whatever that is supposed to be in a religious context)? Most if not all of them are totally incompatible with all the others. You yourself said that you would deny and decry Allah were you to come face-to-face with the character in the afterlife. How about - and I'm thinking off the top of my head here - Ganesh, the elephant god? Or Kali? What about Quetzecoatl, or Mithras etc etc etc? I'm no expert on comparative religions but I'm fairly certain that most if not all have very severe punishments for being a follower of some competing religion instead of the one peculiar to 'your' particular region and culture (speaking generally here rather than you specifically).
For example, what are the biblical rules for dealing with followers of 'rival' gods?
Bottom line is: clearly not all of these mutually-competing faiths and religions can be right simultaneously. But they can all be wrong.
For example, what are the biblical rules for dealing with followers of 'rival' gods?
Bottom line is: clearly not all of these mutually-competing faiths and religions can be right simultaneously. But they can all be wrong.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
