(August 4, 2021 at 8:27 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(July 30, 2021 at 3:11 pm)tackattack Wrote: I have no reason to assume God, Jesus or anyone else is good. I define God as good because the Bible defines Him as good. I believe God is good, because of His graciousness and mercy I have experienced in my life and attribute as the work of His hand. If zenulbub the alien show up and claimed that all those thoughts and attributions were his doing then I would assume zenulbub was good and reassess my beliefs in zenulbub and God.
How do you know that these experiences were caused by a god?
I do not know that it necessarily was a God, Thor or just some unexplained particle in the universe. I intuit it most likely is God. I have a definition of what I believe God is. It is an inadequate definition, but sufficient for relative classification. Nothing I’m aware of that is naturalistically or materialistically meet that definition. If zenelbub meets that definition when he comes to claim it was him, then as I said before I would reassess my definition of God and zenelbub.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari