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Who was "he" talking to?
RE: Who was "he" talking to?
(January 16, 2017 at 6:33 am)Godschild Wrote: I know for a fact that God exists and that there are no other gods. God doesn't change so there are no other versions. As far as the false gods go, I would guess there are many different versions, whatever suits the individual works for them. The God of creation lays out for us who He is in the Bible and tells us He is unchanging, so there's only one God of the Bible even.
Nearly everyone who ever believed in any god felt the same way. We've had Muslims here making similar claims about Allah. Unless they can demonstrate it, it is only a fact for them. For the person looking from the outside, all the claims are the same-- they cannot be demonstrated in spite of the confidence with which they are made.

Quote:(A)I say as long as you seek God and (B) you will have to do it with an open heart, you will find Him. Then it's up to you to accept Him or not. I say many have found God and then rejected Him, and they want admit they have because they don't want people to know they have rejected Him for whatever reasons they might deem important.
What do you mean when you say "open heart"?

Quote:I know of no one who has claimed to have actually known God and rejected Him. Isn't it obvious that this is true, look around on this forum, all those who claimed they were Christians and are now atheist say there is no God, so they couldn't have known Him in the true sense or they could only say they reject Him and will no longer follow Him.
I know Him and can't reject Him, that's why I will always be His child.
Satan knew God personally and directly, and rejected him. Adam and Eve knew God personally and directly, and rejected him. Judas knew God personally and directly, and rejected him. Around a third of the angels in heaven knew God personally and directly, and rejected him. The Egyptian Pharaoh saw God's hand in action throughout his entire kingdom, and defied him anyway. How many people saw Jesus perform miracles and give rousing speeches... and rejected him?

I am pretty sure that you have not gotten to know God as closely as those people did, yet you feel that you cannot reject him. Is it possible that you've made him out to be far more impressive than he really is? God cannot be very impressive if people with such close contact and experience with him rejected him. Some of them even knew that the price of their defiance was death! There are people throughout the Bible who preferred to die than to serve God. There is a significant disconnect here, IMO.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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Who was "he" talking to? - by Idontbelieveit - January 2, 2017 at 7:17 pm
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RE: Who was "he" talking to? - by Godschild - January 4, 2017 at 4:53 pm
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RE: Who was "he" talking to? - by Godschild - January 5, 2017 at 12:40 am
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RE: Who was "he" talking to? - by Godschild - January 13, 2017 at 1:43 pm
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RE: Who was "he" talking to? - by Godschild - January 14, 2017 at 11:03 am
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RE: Who was "he" talking to? - by Godschild - January 16, 2017 at 6:33 am
RE: Who was "he" talking to? - by chimp3 - January 16, 2017 at 6:42 am
RE: Who was "he" talking to? - by Godschild - January 16, 2017 at 4:22 pm
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RE: Who was "he" talking to? - by The Grand Nudger - January 14, 2017 at 11:23 am
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RE: Who was "he" talking to? - by The Grand Nudger - January 14, 2017 at 5:01 pm
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RE: Who was "he" talking to? - by The Grand Nudger - January 19, 2017 at 12:19 pm
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RE: Who was "he" talking to? - by Godschild - February 7, 2017 at 1:23 am
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RE: Who was "he" talking to? - by Godschild - February 11, 2017 at 6:06 pm
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