(June 16, 2015 at 2:20 am)Rhythm Wrote: You don't have that experience either, but I would suggest that you are both equally devout in your beliefs. It's no advantage, clearly - as you are no more able than they were of demonstrating this objective standard, or this god, or that you aren't mentally ill, or that you appeal to god for your -own- morality rather than applying that filter and then concluding what simply must not be true -about god-.
I didn't mean I have the experience as in I am alive while Jesus was here, just that I am alive after He already came and all His teachings and His life are written down for us to read about. The people in the OT and those who wrote the OT, did not have that. That's all I meant.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
