(August 12, 2013 at 12:04 pm)Chas Wrote:(August 12, 2013 at 11:59 am)Drich Wrote: and if you were told that you would have XYZ, and you received XYZ, when you knew XYZ was well out of your reach from your current path. Would you not accept all of what the person said? Especially when more is yet to come? Not that the vessal in which the message was delivered is any more special than any other messenger God may use. It is the message and the vality of the message that hold all value. So long as the message does not contradict what the bible says, and plays out to be true on all accounts then one can considered it to be from God. (in this case anyway.)
So again if someone out of the blue were to lay out every major event in your life, and told you He was from God, and gave you a list of things to focous on, would you brush it off even if everything he said started to unfold as he said it, or would you do as you were instructed?
If in your heart of hearts you would brush it off, then ask yourself why God would bother saying anything to you?
A Link to my Messenger/Message thread. (Angel story) http://atheistforums.org/thread-13378.html
If someone knew things about my life that they couldn't possibly have humanly known, then that would be evidence of something non-human.
But it would not be evidence of any particular god.
...and if this 'non-human' said he was to deliver that message from God?
That was the point of the Mircials Christ performed. I was to establish His authority with out question or doubt as to who He was (Son of God) and what He said was true. Fore, who could do what was done and say He was God, and not be of God? If there was a power and authority greater than the 'mirical worker' himself, and the 'mirical worker' was not from God/The power authority greater than the Mirical worker, then why would God allow the Mirical worker to Change anything God established?
This is what got the the pharasees in trouble in Mark 3. They saw the 'proof' Christ offered, and tried to say his power was from Satan, rather than God. In essence saying Saying Satan was greater, and that he was at war with himself.