Why knocking is so important.

[Nine]

I honestly do not care who is ruling over Britain. I used the queen as a possiable example for a specific delima that I do not think anyone has addressed yet.

If its the one I read yesterday I can address it right now. The leader of most nations is constantly on camera and reported on by hundreds if not thousands of news outlets almost daily. Even if I doubted those I could probably go to some kind of event where I could see that person with my own eyes. They also have a clear and obvious effect on the world that is easily observed by all.

For god it is entirely from a handful of ancient books of which the origins are not particularly trustworthy at best and outright fabricated and fraudulent at worst. That and peoples testimony that they somehow feel that there is a god, even then they rarely agree on what that god is or wants.

Could the world leaders not be real? I guess. I have far more reason to believe they exist than for a deity.

[LostLocke]

I honestly do not care who is ruling over Britain. I used the queen as a possiable example for a specific delima that I do not think anyone has addressed yet.

Holy crap on a cracker....
Ryan just addressed the dilemma!
You just chose to gloss over it is all.

[Drich]

I assume you received a sensation. Let us say then that that sensation was your imagination only, so as to take it out of hearing.

ah, no. Feelings have nothing to do with biblical Christianity.

God has given me revelation and insight in business and in exegetical matters well beyond what I have train for. (That is why I can answer your unanswerable questions concerning biblical Christianity.)

My point about fairness is that making such an uncharitable assumption about your relative (lack of) sanity is about as fair as you making assumptions about the sincerity of my faith in my youth -- to wit, you're being very unfair, and insulting.

and this point fails because it assumes that communication is based on feeling.

What if worms had machine guns? Birds wouldn't fuck with them, brotha.

If god isn't omnimax, that's fine. Then he isn't the Judeo-Christian god. That brings up the point: what god are you talking about? There's a little shy of five thousand running around, which leprechaun is your favorite?

You reference Luke, and the Chritsian Bible, all the time. If you don't think that that god is omnimax, you're a blasphemer. If you do think he's omnimax, you're arguing disingenuously here. Which is it?

no where in the bible does it say God is an Omni max God. If you believe otherwise please provide book chapter and verse. Otherwise know what you believe to be the "Judeo-Christian God" is little more than a traditional/non biblical view of Him. One He seldom supports, and one that leaves you to believe because this 'traditional/non biblical version of God' does not exist, then no version of God can.

This is exactly what I mean by God allowing the trials of life to wash the foolishly built house away, and once your deeply beloved version was proven to be inaccurate, and if you kept knocking God could help you build your house on the rock.

and if God confirmed His presents to you while you thought He was an Omnimax God? Would you then tear down your house and seek out who God really is or would you continue to build your house that was built on the sand?

The god I believed in didn't answer, so I discarded that hypothesis.

ah... No you didn't. If you discarded your Version of God once the experiences of your life showed you it was wrong, you followed the parable of the wise and foolish (you being the foolish one) builders to a tee.

[Nine]

Holy crap on a cracker....
Ryan just addressed the dilemma!
You just chose to gloss over it is all.

I think he's still working through them in order.

[Drich]

My path did not take into krishna's camp before I found God.

I think you just didn't look long enough. You lost patience and settled for something that was more popular here.

Do you even know what I was looking for?

When we "look" we are testing what a given holy book says against the results one gets when he follows a prescribed path.

It does not take a life time (though so do) to identify an empty religion.

[ShaMan]

Feelings have nothing to do with biblical Christianity.

Someone forgot to tell your friend.

Those who have had genuine mystical experiences, like me, will tell you that such life changing events also contains within them their own self-evident veracity.

You "Christians" need to tighten up your shtick.

[Jenny A]

Feelings have nothing to do with biblical Christianity.

When knocking what should one expect but a feeling? Or is it lightening bolts you have in mind?

[Anomalocaris]

Those who have had genuine mystical experiences, like me, will tell you that such life changing events also contains within them their own self-evident veracity.

Surrender yourself to a clinical psychiatrist. Mark your calendar "Unavailable" for a few years during your treatment.

[Ryantology]

If the British queen was 100% sequestered from all other humans and never directly communicated with the outside world or anybody in it, and the only evidence of her existence came from hearsay and books that made no testable claims, and you were told that you could only hear the queen in your head, and only if you asked her in just the right way, would you accept as absolute truth that there is a queen reigning over Britain?

I honestly do not care who is ruling over Britain. I used the queen as a possiable example for a specific delima that I do not think anyone has addressed yet.

The identity of the subject is completely irrelevant. I understand entirely what you were attempting to do. What I did was point out the dilemma that you refuse to address.

[Minimalist]

Matthew 7:7 ►
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

I asked for a blond with big tits and a Ferrari. Got nothing.

Fuck off, god. And take that loser, Drippy, with you.