(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?
First, sorry I bailed on you in the Shoutbox earlier. Wife called and she wanted me to help wash the dog and I had no idea you were going to reply right away. Apologies.
It's really hard for me to 'express' what happens when God shows up ... or when you walk out to meet up with Him. I am not a proselytizer nor a prophet. Let's get that out of the way up front. "At least as far as I know" ... you can't 'see' God, and you can't 'hear' Him either. That makes things a little problematic for people who are uninitiated.
For where two or more are gathered together in my name, there I Am, in the midst of them. -Matthew 18:20
A very close friend in Korea made the introduction. He was really cool about it.
Ballyongsong (Baemsol) in Baeksadorip-ri is growing in Eosan Village, Dorib-ri about 1.7km away to the west from the myeon office of Baeksa-myeon, Icheon. It is said that at the end of the Shilla dynasty, the Buddhist priest Doseon planted this tree. Don’t let the tree be a distraction … It is the ‘place’ that you seek.