I may depart from many fellow atheists in this regard, but if god made itself known to me in a way where I was completely convinced of its existence (god being an entity which created the universe, including us, and was all-powerful), and god commanded me to do something, I would do it.
This would be god's universe, and its rules would supercede any limited ideas I had formed myself. Regardless of whether I thought it was right or wrong, moral or immoral, if god told me to do it, it would be the correct thing to do. I would have no reasonable basis to resist the will of the creator and ruler of the universe, whether I understood the reasons or not.
Do any other atheists/non-theists agree with this viewpoint? If not, what would your basis be for resisting the wishes of god? Why do you think your morals would trump god's? What if each command was backed by a threat of eternal damnation/pain/suffering for non-compliance - would that change your response? What if each command was backed by a promise of eternal bliss/joy/ecstasy for compliance - would that change your response?
atotalstranger,
Please let me point out a couple of things.
If you had a Theophany, God appearing to you, why would you believe it is the True God, and not a wicked spirit, which we are warned about? Eph 6:11-13.
Are you aware that, of all our senses, the sense of sight is the easiest to fool???
You say that if God told you personally to do something that you would do it. I say you would not, because if you would you would do what the Bible, which is God's personal letter to every man, says. So in truth, you do have God telling you what to do!!!
Consider a principle that addresses this matter, at Luke 16:25-31. These verses tell us that we have God's word, and if we do not believe what it says we would not even believe if a person comes back from the dead to tells us something.
God's word tells us everything that God requires of us, to qualify us to be preserved through the end of this system of things. If we do not listen to God's own word, what would we believe.
Many people do not believe that the Holy Scriptures are inspired of God and therefore the same as God Himself speaking to each one of us, 2Pet 1:20,21, 2Tim 3:16,17.
Almost a third of the Holy Scriptuures are prophecies. No one but the almighty God, who is perfect in knowledge could write something beforehand and make it come true 100% of the time, as God has.
Many things the Bible recorded was not known by men at the dates they were written. Job tells us the earth had a round shape, Job 26:10, and that it was hung on nothing, Job 26:7. These scriptures were written well over 3,000 years ago. Isa says the same, Isa 40:22.
When Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, no person knew the exact order of the creation, but Moses wrote Genesis in 1513BCE, and science agrees perfectly with the order that Moses wrote.
Have you ever read the book of Daniel. The last three books of Daniel list the order of all the world powers that had any dealings with the Israelites, this right down to today in Dan chapter 12. Even Daniel did not know what he was writing, but God, who inspired Daniel, knew, Dan 8:27, 12:8-10.
Through the study of Bible schlors and Biblical archeology, the Holy Scriptures have been proven to be accurrate, in spite of so many critics, who want to discredit it.
There is absolutely no reason to believe that God has not spoken to you through His Holy Scriptures. Are you obeying Him, as you said you would???
