(February 26, 2013 at 8:54 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: This whole A/S/K thing is nothing more than a twisted way of making the believer lose another bolt of rationality. As a hypothetical believer, I could be so desperate for a personal revelation that I convince myself that after A/S/King the sudden wind blowing outside my room is the answer and I'll shoehorn my own meaning (derived from my subconscious desires) into what God supposedly said to me in answer to A/S/King, because you know, God speaks in such mysterious ways that we have the task of decyphering it everytime.
A/S/K is fraudulent and false advertising. It cannot work for anyone who is in a position of ignorance of God or incredulous about him. You cannot even begin the process until you make six huge, incredible assumptions:
1. God exists.
2. God is a personal God.
3. All other Gods are false.
4. Jesus existed.
5. Jesus died for your sins.
6. The Bible is the infallible word of God (how can you trust the verses which allegedly instruct you how to A/S/K if you doubt the book's veracity?)
By the time you've gotten to the point where you can make yourself even begin to A/S/K, you've already padlocked all the doors in your mind which can ever lead you to doubt that you're going to get precisely the answer you expect. A/S/K is nothing more than convoluted mental masturbation.