So I got in trouble

[pocaracas]

You have confirmation bias working on different levels here.
One of them is your pre-recognition of the divine... you already believed in god, the god of christianity, the trinity... you were already aware of this god and believed it exists.

Then you had your dream.
Biasing from your prior belief led you to accept it as divine.

And then proceeded to search for more details.
Biasing from your dream made you find the details you wanted in the text.
It is not surprising that others may have written about similar experiences.

Take the famous light at the end of the tunnel experienced by some NDE patients.
If one associates this light with some afterlife place, and the others, previously attuned to acknowledge the divine, come across this interpretation, they will agree with the interpretation, thus strengthening their belief in that divinity.

So, is the light at the end of the tunnel an actual place or is it neurochemistry in the brain of a few people making them see that... or something else?
What seems more likely? (provided we have no actual way of measuring all this)


Wrong... one needs to know something... that's why someone wrote about it. Had no one wrote a word about it, would you know that you had to do it?
You need to know about the existence of some sort of a divine being... and you need to know that this methodology can lead you to further acknowledging it.
Given that, how do you differentiate the reality of this divinity from "it's all in your head"?


Well, you must be talking to someone else... to me, christianity is all the same thing... mainstream or mega delusional rabit-hole christianity... they all believe in the existence of a divinity which showed up as a human and got nailed.
I go further and lump christianity with islam, hinduism, buddhism, and any other dead religion...all based on the unsubstantiated assumption that a person's personality/individuality/knowledge/wisdom goes on existing, somehow, after the death of the biological body.
This is wishful thinking... and anything that confirms this wishful thinking is relying on confirmation bias.

What does my foundations of belief have to do with what God has offered any of you?

God has offered to give you your own experiences. Mine were for me, and intentionally mean nothing to do ourside of sparking an intrest to maybe have your own.

You mean to say you got all the evidence you wanted without A.S.K.ing?
Now, that's a bit disingenuous... do as I say, not as I do, huh?