Have you ever..

[loverofhumanity]

Fascinating. You have discovered how stubborn, wrong, closed minded, unreasoning you were. But how? What "truth" did you actually discover? You claim "the truth of Baha'u'llah," but you don't provide anything other than the bald statement that that was "truth." As if nothing else ever was!

That is NOT discovering "truth." That is deciding what you are going to believe -- for no reasons other than your own, and for no reasons that you seem willing to share with us here.

And I'm sure that's lovely for you -- but what would make anybody else care in the slightest?

And finally, your statement that you "would be spiritually dead like most" is completely gratuitous. How do you know who is "spiritually dead?"

What hubris. Do try to get over yourself.

Firstly, I investigated the claims of Baha’u’llah not blindly believe in Him. And I found out that my atheist beliefs were based upon arrogant egotism. So just being honest about that. I was spiritually dead as an atheist so now being spiritually alive I know the difference. Well, God says in many scriptures of many religions that those who do not accept Him or His Messengers are spiritually asleep or dead and that’s ancient like Christ said that 2,000 years ago ‘let the dead bury the dead’. So belief in God is likened to spiritual life while disbelief in God in the scriptures likened to spiritual death. I don’t decide that, God does.

 

[Psalm23]

No, it sounds like too much work.

I agree. I don't have the time or patience for it.

 

[Psalm23]

No. Many people think that I am God, and they call me 'Lord.' I simply smile, point to my nametag, and say, 'It's pronounced Lloyd.'

I'm just kidding about the God/Lord/Llyod thing. Nobody believes that about me, and my name is definitely not Lloyd.

In all seriousness, I have never believed that I am God or any deity.



That is something that I like about you. You believe in God rather than believing that you are God.

You got me there for a second until I read that you were just kidding.

 

[Spirit of Light]

First: No, of course not.

Second, I can't help but notice your "just for the record" comment. It's like the person trying who goes to the lawyer and says "my friend, who is really not me, wants to know if this is illegal..."

I added it becomes i expected someone would ask me about it.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

So belief in God is likened to spiritual life while disbelief in God in the scriptures likened to spiritual death. I don’t decide that, God does.

No, you did decide that -- all by yourself.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

No, you did decide that -- all by yourself.

I sometimes consider if I need to believe in God. I always find that I create God so she matches my belief system. So I found that I can believe in God, but I don't have to, because it is in both cases my belief system. With and without God.

 

[Fool]

Nonsense. Try reading the verse in context.

A psalm of Asaph.

God stands in the divine assembly;
among the divine beings He pronounces judgment.

How long will you judge perversely,
showing favor to the wicked? Selah.

Judge the wretched and the orphan,
vindicate the lowly and the poor,

rescue the wretched and the needy;
save them from the hand of the wicked.

They neither know nor understand,
they go about in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth totter.

I had taken you for divine beings,
sons of the Most High, all of you;

but you shall die as men do,
fall like any prince.​

In verse six, He is addressing, not humans, but the members of the divine assembly, and warning them that they will "die as men so, fall like any price."

everything created has an end; which is at the beginning