Why knocking is so important.

[Drich]

I'm talking about real verification Drich. Voices in your head and feelings do not count.

I believe that Drich's point is that they count for him. His claim is that if we each ASK in the proper manner and with the proper amount of persistence, we will also get our own verification, which would in turn serve as verification that he was right. If we don't get the correct verification, then the process is not complete and we must persist until we do.

I don't think there's anything more to it. For me, the last part reminds me of the way that "prayer always works" because the believer interprets the outcome to support prayer no matter what happens. I cannot verify Drich's experiences: in fact I strongly suspect that they would not stand up to scrutiny. He cannot verify mine, and he may equally strongly suspect that my attempts were self-serving or simply insufficient. We are stalemated.

We are indeed at a stalemate unless God does come through for you as outlined/promised in scripture.

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We are stalemated.

Indeed, to the mind of the idiots, invincible wishful thinking can never be defeated by empirical validation.

Appeals to cliche' and generalities does not empirical validation make.

Or rather when have you ever defeated anything I have said with empirical validation. Please post a quote number or provide a link. Otherwise know you just quoted a cliche' atheistic answer to what you believe to be a general Christian response.