Why knocking is so important.

[Drich]

I'm suggesting that if your method of looking will turn up a number of very different contradictory gods, it's a bad method, that confirms what your were seeking, whatever it was that you were seeking. As it confirms anything you look for, it's simply a method of self delusion.

actually it won't because none of the other gods make this claim.
That's not to say someone steeped in self delusion could not use this method to confirm whatever he likes. But, again as I have illustrated some perfectly adjusted member of society could also use this method to find themselves a spouse.

Ask seek knock is a tool nothing more. Trying to vilify a tool is foolishness. It is always been the intention of the one who wields the tool that decides if a tool is used for noble or destructive purposes. To vilify the hammer for being used in a destructive way is lazy philosophy.

Sorry, a lifetime of looking is not remotely reasonable. If someone told me to look for an elephant in my house and a day's looking didn't turn up an elephant I'd stop. Any sensible person would.

and if you wanted to find a husband, but could not find a suitable mate right away? Then what would you quit just because your first attempts failed? Or would you keep looking?

There's plenty of evidence marriageable men exist and none that god does.

only if you know where to look. If you only looked at a battered woman's shelter (where their is an absence of real love that a husband shares with a wife) or if you looked in a country where the married women are made to wear big black sheets, I'd bet you would have a different opinion. But rather because you haven't given up on getting marriage you have seen at least a glimmer of the positive love a man can have for his wife somewhere.

The same is true with our relationship with God. One can not see evidences, if one does not know where or how to look. (It's like only viewing love through that women's shelter.)

If I had been looking for unicorns, I have given up long before 30.

And what if you were privy to have met a unicorn once?
Would you give up so easily?

Thanks, but no. I've found a sense of morality, no god required. What is a "spiritual hippy sense of morality" and why would anyone want it?

And no it's not like looking for your car keys. The keys exist and you need them. God doesn't and I don't need him.

The funny thing about 'no God required morality' is that it's tied to our various societies. Get the wrong one and your putting God's people into gas chambers and then [/quote]ovens.

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If you remember God did this once before in the way of Christ, and the whole of humanity did not acknowledge Him. His own people did not recognize Him. Why? Because they themselves built a myth (much like you have) of who and what God was supposed to be.

He's an omnipotent being, i.e has the power to make the people he appears to know he is their god. But that would just be doing it the easy way.

And if He confirmed His existence with your corrupt view? Then you would be worshiping your Version rather than God himself.