RE: 1984 & A/S/K revisited
April 9, 2013 at 3:31 am
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2013 at 3:35 am by FallentoReason.)
(April 9, 2013 at 3:20 am)Godschild Wrote:(April 9, 2013 at 2:13 am)FallentoReason Wrote: ???
The "too long; didn't read" version of the OP would be this:
You're telling us that in order to experience God, we need to use a method that can equally be used to make someone believe whatever you desire. Based on this (whose justification went right over your head apparently) I call bullcrap on the whole "experiencing God" thing, just like I call bullcrap on the 1984 hypothetical that 2 + 2 is anything but 4.
There is no method of coming to faith in Christ, many different experiences are described by Christians, to some degree you need to know what your committing to. The rest comes as you experience God in a daily walk with Him. One could say you first come to Christ in faith and through faith will come belief and through belief comes knowledge and in this knowledge comes the wonderful relationship that goes beyond description.
The OP only deals with the method of A/S/K which claims that direct experiences will result.
Quote:By the way you did explain the way in which the anti-christ will fool the world, he will show many aspects of Christ with half truths and the world will believe 2+2=__.
White noise. What you speak of is something you've accepted after you left some part of your mind at the door. As Galileo so elegantly put it:
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle