(06-07-2023, 08:24 PM)Ninurta Wrote:(06-06-2023, 07:30 PM)Snarl Wrote: When you meet God ... you 'know' you've met him. When you meet another God ... you know that too.
The thing that I don't quite get is why it's almost a let down afterwards. It doesn't change anything. And nobody's 'really' gonna believe you unless you take them to God and introduce Him.
I don't think anyone would have a clue that they had met a "small 'g'" god until AFTER they had met the "big G" God - they'd have no basis of comparison until after that meeting had taken place... and there are a LOT of folks around who've never had that meeting, and never will have it, so those folks will never know, unless they can get some objective criteria to base their belief upon, something concrete that will allow them to determine whether any particular spiritual being is a "god" or "God".
What I'm looking for here is some criteria the uninitiated can use to evaluate whether they are seeing god or God.
I'm also of the opinion that, contrary to popular belief, God does NOT "love everyone", and that there are just some folks God will never have anything to do with. "God is love" is put to the lie by the Bible itself - it plainly says "God loved Jacob, but hated Esau"... so, if God is consistent as claimed, then logically God does not "love everyone", and we are not "all God's children". For those who will never, ever meet God, how are they supposed to know that what they've met isn't God at all?
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Sorry, fell to temptation.
Try some and you too will see God or gods or...
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell