RE: God is the great spirit friend
March 21, 2013 at 8:11 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2013 at 8:13 pm by Ryantology.)
(March 21, 2013 at 8:00 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Sorry, I have missed your posts.
People could have a vision that is a real vision, but the spirit that is responsible for the vision does not necessarily define God. The Bible describes many different spirits that go forth and reveal different things to people, such as Pharoah's sorcerers and people who tell fortunes. It does not say that these spirits are imagined or that people don't have the experiences, it simply says that the spirits are not from God.
Also the Bible says that some spirits are more evil than others. Because spirits do not come from God, does not mean that everything that they say is false. I believe the different religions of the world are different spirits that have gone into the world and revealed similar things to Christianity and they are intact because they are related to the blessings of God.
That isn't what he asked you, so I'll put the question to you a little differently.
Imagine that you are an unwashed heathen like me, who has no dog in the fight. Imagine that you met someone who had precisely the same experience you claim to have had with Yahweh, the sole creator of the universe. Imagine, also, that you meet a Muslim, who has precisely the same experience you claim to have, only he says that his came from Allah, the sole creator of the universe.
How can you tell which one is right, if either of them are?