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Sometimes " God " reveals himself through " revelation " to " chosen " people. And I am one of those Chosen Ones. Allah Akbar.
As am I, but your phrasing sounds a bit arrogant.Sometimes " God " reveals himself through " revelation " to " chosen " people. And I am one of those Chosen Ones. Allah Akbar.
says you... of course.
As am I, but your phrasing sounds a bit arrogant.
Arrogance lacks good reason by definition. If you want to be taken seriously, tone it down.Go figure. I'm a very arrogant person but for good reasons.
Case in point...." Girls the girls they loveeeeeee us! Cuz we $tay Fre$h 2 Death, We The Be$t, Nothin Le$$! " - Young Gunz
Says me and a few other Chosen Ones. Most of them are girls. I guess I'm just one Lucky guy. :drool: ke ke ke...
I dunno - if the all-powerful, all-knowing God of the Universe chose him out of everyone else to be his special friend, then he must be pretty awesome.Arrogance lacks good reason by definition. If you want to be taken seriously, tone it down.
Arrogance lacks good reason by definition. If you want to be taken seriously, tone it down.
Case in point....
I dunno - if the all-powerful, all-knowing God of the Universe chose him out of everyone else to be his special friend, then he must be pretty awesome.
I certainly don't think this actually happened, but his attitude seems consistent with his claim.
I'm fundamentally confused by this particular notion. God-believers want other people to have a relationship with God, but how is that even possible? Where is God? How do you talk to him? How does he talk back? Is prayer like leaving a message on an answering machine except God never calls back? It's like someone commissioning forty odd authors to write down everything they want to say to you nearly 2,000 years ago and then just disappearing without a trace. Yet that person still demands that you believe that they love you or else he'll set you on fire forever.
The entire relationship would be based on the rather impersonal method of commissioning someone else to write about it rather than direct interaction on a personal level, which is how I conduct my personal relations with other people. I know some believe in signs here and there, but you can make any ambiguous event mean almost anything and it's still impersonal. I mean a single child survives a tsunami and it's called a 'miracle'. Never mind the thousands of people, including other children, that died without a reason because then it's called 'God works in mysterious ways'.
So essentially I'm asking how can I have a personal relationship with God, much less worship him, whenever I've never even met him in person or know whether he even exists?
Having a "personal" relationship with a god is nonsequitor, as a god is not a person.
i said if someone invites you in that is when the opportunity to share your personal experience opens up. you just don't barge into someone's home now do you? or maybe you do...psst, it's rude to do so, cause you're not respecting the other persons space
dictatorship is when no one is allowed, ever, even when they're invited...
seems to me the reason for invading someone's personal space is because of the fear of not being invited in...