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AmenThat's not how it works.
The word of God is for all ages.
1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Hebrews 4:12a For the word of God is quick,
'Quick' means It is alive; meaning that, just as a person grows from childhood to adulthood, the Bible grows with the times: from ancient times until tomorrow -- and beyond.
It is just as applicable today, as It will be tomorrow.
If God showed up and took you back in time to the Creation Week, and you saw the events of the Creation Week occur just as outlined in Genesis 1, what single event would surprise you the most?
Angiosperms before the sun? the earth as the first object in the universe with mass? starlight from hundreds and thousands of light years away? whales before land animals? man from the dust of the ground? woman from Adam's rib?
What exactly would surprise you the most?
(And please don't make this into a "God is deceptive" thread.)
I can picture an atheist saying that.Far and away the biggest surprise would probably be God showing up to me in the first place in such a way that I wouldn't assume:
1. I'm having a psychotic episode, and/or
2. That Marijuana brownie I ate in college is finally kicking in.
Anything beyond that is going to be pretty trivial by comparison.
I can picture an atheist saying that.
But an agnostic?
Sentience bother you, does it?I'm agnostic insofar as I will accept the possibility of an overarching force in the universe... but the idea of that force manifest as some sort of quasi-anthropomorphic being existing outside creation and occasionally meddling in it.... yeah, gotta be that brownie.
Sentience bother you, does it?
I don't think anything would surprise me, but something that might surprise you is that you still wouldn't know if God actually existed.What exactly would surprise you the most?
I'm past that hurdle, chief -- way past it.I don't think anything would surprise me, but something that might surprise you is that you still wouldn't know if God actually existed.
I'm agnostic insofar as I will accept the possibility of an overarching force in the universe... but the idea of that force manifest as some sort of quasi-anthropomorphic being existing outside creation and occasionally meddling in it.... yeah, gotta be that brownie.
Obviously, but this just puts you in the same company as people who believe that the earth is flat, or the moon landing was faked, or aliens built the pyramids. They're positions that can't be refuted by either facts or reason. So rather than being a ringing endorsement of God's existence it's just another sad commentary on the irrationality of people.I'm past that hurdle, chief -- way past it.
That'll be the day.If you could at least acknowledge the fact that you can't know for certain whether God exists, then we could perhaps have a rational discussion about why you 'believe' that he does.
IIRC, when Jesus said, "become like little children", he was talking about humility, not hubris (or trolling).That'll be the day.
We have a name for people who refuse to compromise:
MARTYRS
That'll be the day.
We have a name for people who refuse to compromise:
MARTYRS
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