RE: On the nature of evidence.
October 25, 2014 at 4:14 pm
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2014 at 4:15 pm by Aoi Magi.)
(October 25, 2014 at 4:05 pm)trmof Wrote: I think you might be setting your standards too high. As someone who I presume lives an ordinary life without major worldwide repercussions, it might be unreasonable to ask God for something so major that he has to make the laws of physics jump through hoops. He has to take into account the butterfly effect this would have on everything in your immediate vicinity and beyond.
In my experience God is much more likely to communicate with people through strange circumstances which speak to them personally, as these are much easier to engineer. I would suggest you ask humbly for a very simple sign of this kind, and don't immediately write it off as a coincidence when something unusual happens; but ask God to provide a larger, bolder sign to confirm the first. If he is an active personality as I believe, he will see fit to give you these signs and make them more and more obvious. However, if you DO receive these increasingly obvious signs and still refuse to acknowledge them as circumstantial evidence, then God will eventually stop trying.
He did it all the time in OT and NOW he has to worry about "butterfly effect"? he IS all powerful, capable of anything and everything, right? Besides, why bother convincing one person at a time when he can convince almost everybody at once by just twisting a few physics rules, which only he can? it should be no biggie for him, right?
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