RE: Religion and idolatry
July 6, 2014 at 8:38 am
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2014 at 8:39 am by Baqal.)
@professor
-There is one sure way to find out which of the myriad religions and philosophies is true-
Humbly ask the God of Heaven - "Who are you?, show me the way".
I did ask this question when I was a Christian, and God was rather unresponsive. As a result, I was giving God attributes on my own that suit my personal opinions about Him. This is the problem - God is, by definition, omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. Whatever you say about him qualifies. If God is open to stacking opinions about Him via the people that are, allegedly, having a personal relationship with Him, God's personality varies from person to person. This shows a list of several possibilities:
1) God is communicating with the persons who claim to have sighted Him and the persons are unsure of his character because of their limited nature of understanding
2) God is not communicating with the persons who claim to have sighted Him and the persons have explained his character in a way to satisfy their own bias about the Creator
3) The "God" these persons claim to have spoken to is nothing but their ego notifying them about their own opinions about God's character
I, just like many other atheists that once were believers, realized the problem in this system of having a personal relationship with any god you can list.
If you are going to dismiss any other belief in a divinity because of your own revelation from God, that's fine. You have the right to believe anything you want. You just have to understand that these "God has revealed Himself to me" anecdotes aren't very convincing. For me, at least.
-There is one sure way to find out which of the myriad religions and philosophies is true-
Humbly ask the God of Heaven - "Who are you?, show me the way".
I did ask this question when I was a Christian, and God was rather unresponsive. As a result, I was giving God attributes on my own that suit my personal opinions about Him. This is the problem - God is, by definition, omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. Whatever you say about him qualifies. If God is open to stacking opinions about Him via the people that are, allegedly, having a personal relationship with Him, God's personality varies from person to person. This shows a list of several possibilities:
1) God is communicating with the persons who claim to have sighted Him and the persons are unsure of his character because of their limited nature of understanding
2) God is not communicating with the persons who claim to have sighted Him and the persons have explained his character in a way to satisfy their own bias about the Creator
3) The "God" these persons claim to have spoken to is nothing but their ego notifying them about their own opinions about God's character
I, just like many other atheists that once were believers, realized the problem in this system of having a personal relationship with any god you can list.
If you are going to dismiss any other belief in a divinity because of your own revelation from God, that's fine. You have the right to believe anything you want. You just have to understand that these "God has revealed Himself to me" anecdotes aren't very convincing. For me, at least.
