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Great debate. I already watched it when the video came out. I'm actually a subscriber to the Premier Unbelievable? channel.

In my own words: - Repent of your sins - Believe that God sent Jesus Christ to die and resurrect for the forgiveness of your sins - Accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior - Die to the flesh - Receive the Holy Spirit - Be filled with the Holy Spirit - Be led by the Holy Spirt - Walk in the Holy Spirit

Sure, I've read the entire Bible at least once, and I've probably watched hundreds of sermons and conversion testimonies.

What do you mean by "visible"? Do you mean "visible" as in visible with my physical eyes? My main concern right now is how to unlock a relationship with God. How to encounter God and have an interactive relationship with Him.

Q1: Does Christianity predict that I should be able to have a personal loving relationship with God? Is that something that should be expected to be true if Christianity is true? Q2: If the answer to Q1 is "yes", is there a standard definition in Christianity of what a "personal loving...

Yes, I've read the whole Bible at least once. Non-trinitarians would be happy to debate this, but I don't want to get sidetracked by that whole discussion. How much mathematical background do you have? Are you familiar with calculus?

Can you please provide sources to back this all up? Say, the best books/journal articles you have read on this. How can I "check it out" for myself? Is there a method?

Optimization of the utility function (finding the maximum). I never talked about "power". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_optimization

I'm open to both. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility https://faculty.msj.edu/whiter/utility.htm

I'm open to the possibility of Christianity being true. I'm seeking the truth, the meaning of life, the maximization of the utility of life. Why did you get the impression that I was talking about "power"? What do you mean by "power"?

I'm open to the possibility. I never said that you can become God. I only said that there is an utility function that can be optimized. I didn't say anything about how it can be optimized. I didn't say that God Himself is a machine or a mathematical equation. I'm only saying that the utility...

Brother Hyeok literally said that everything of the world is trash next to experiencing the presence of God. That's perfectly consistent with the utilitarian formulation I suggest in the OP. How? I never used the word "power" in the OP.

What about the testimony I linked?

First, as an intro, a quote from Utilitarianism - Wikipedia: So, I had the following thought. What if Christianity can be described as a specific kind of utilitarianism? If we think about it, in Christianity the whole point is to pursue the maximization of God and God's creation's utility...

Why do you assume that?

My question is motivated by the following excerpt from William Lane Craig's Reasonable Faith article The Witness of the Holy Spirit: Plantinga's model involves crucially what is usually called the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. In his model the Holy Spirit functions on the analogy of a...

The following is a quote from The Witness of the Holy Spirit | Reasonable Faith: Plantinga's model involves crucially what is usually called the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. In his model the Holy Spirit functions on the analogy of a cognitive faculty, producing beliefs in us. I myself...

Amazing. Was this documented somewhere?

Have you heard these testimonies in one-on-one, face-to-face conversations with trustable missionaries, or through stories from "unknown" random missionaries on the internet?

It's just standard terminology. See Sign Gifts But if you want further reasons specifically for the testimony at hand (post #1): HELPS Word-studies 4592 sēmeíon – a sign (typically miraculous), given especially to confirm, corroborate or authenticate. 4592 /sēmeíon ("sign") then emphasizes the...