If I said that God spoke to ME

[FlyingTeaPot]

I'd definitely say this wasn't God, but if you just said God spoke to you and left it at that, I'd believe you. Very few of us are mind readers.

What reason do you have to believe him? What if he was lying?

 

[zer0]

Rest is essential to building muscle so hopefully you can get your sleep disorder resolved. Adding muscle is about calorie surplus and making sure that the surplus is good (higher protein, good carbs) and good time under tension workouts. Most guys neglect their legs, and shouldn't since training legs hard increases GH and anabolic pathways which are essential to adding muscle mass. So train legs hard to start.

Yeah... That's what everyone keeps telling me. I used to run a lot. I could run like there is no tomorrow, but nothing ever builds up. LOL. Everything builds in deep sleep, and I have a lack of deep sleep, freaking sucks. Maybe I'll pick running back up and do some other work with my legs. Thanks! :run:

Hahaha! I think anyone who has a concept that is unusual will have some followers.

This is very true. Look at politics!

 

[zer0]

woha! A Glenn Beck fan! :faint:

Lol, I didn't say that I watch him every day, I just said that if I'm bored, feel like watching someone rant about politics and what's wrong with the world on TV, my first choice is Glenn Beck. I'm not given much of a crowd to choose from, as I mentioned. What should I do, watch the Ed Show or the Last Wordof that one guy whose arguments are merely ad hominens of opposing people. Now, in the end, when I really want to know what's up I just watch all 3 of the stations interchangeably and look for one of them to not sound like it was pulled out of thin air. In the end I think anyone that religiously follows Glenn Beck is an idiot and that anyone that refuses to even hear what he say's as plausible is an idiot religiously following someone else.

 

[Vinayaka]

What reason do you have to believe him? What if he was lying?

I have no reason not to believe him. Of course, if in some future date, his actions disagreed with what he had said, then I'd change my mind. I'm working on two premises here:

1) We all think differently. My consciousness is different from yours. If I relate an inner experience, who are you to deny it. It was my experience. if I say I went to Chicago, and you say, "You're lying!" then I guess thee is no discussion.

This is just a bit like your basic first response to a stranger. Some people start with distrust, and learn trust. Others start with trust, and learn distrust.

2) My god is a loving God (Siva) so when God speaks to me, I just know that he wouldn't command me off to violence.

 

[Erebus]

...through a Burning Bush I found or in the middle of the desert when I was starving... OR just on a regular basis.... And he told me recently that we should go slaughter our neighbors and take their daughters for ourselves.... Would you call me a prophet or a loon?

I'd be well up for slaughtering my neighbours, but you're more than welcome to keep their daughter for yourself.



*Edit* I should probably point out that as obnoxious as my neighbours are I don't really approve of slaughtering them

 

[Vendetta]

some people heard god telling them to fly into buildings...
or blow themselves up...

Prove that claim please

 

[waitasec]

Prove that claim please

are you serious?

 

[LaaIlahaIllAllah]

I wouldn't believe God spoke to you since in Islam we believe that prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is the last prophet.

I would think either you are lying or crazy or maybe "someone else" is whispering to you.

 

[dance-above]

...through a Burning Bush I found or in the middle of the desert when I was starving... OR just on a regular basis.... And he told me recently that we should go slaughter our neighbors and take their daughters for ourselves.... Would you call me a prophet or a loon?

Today they would call you a loon....But even in the past they still persecuted the saints.

 

[Narrathoth - The Stampede]

...through a Burning Bush I found or in the middle of the desert when I was starving... OR just on a regular basis.... And he told me recently that we should go slaughter our neighbors and take their daughters for ourselves.... Would you call me a prophet or a loon?

I'd say whatever God told you this, must be new.

 

[Iti oj]

...through a Burning Bush I found or in the middle of the desert when I was starving... OR just on a regular basis.... And he told me recently that we should go slaughter our neighbors and take their daughters for ourselves.... Would you call me a prophet or a loon?

How many daughters do i get and what protection from a retaliation. Can you provide?

 

[Hawkins]

...through a Burning Bush I found or in the middle of the desert when I was starving... OR just on a regular basis.... And he told me recently that we should go slaughter our neighbors and take their daughters for ourselves.... Would you call me a prophet or a loon?

False prophets and those doing false witnessing (liars) will be burnt to the Lake of Fire. So if you survived the Final Judgment, then I'll believe that you are a prophet.

 

[SteveGrayFTW]

...through a Burning Bush I found or in the middle of the desert when I was starving... OR just on a regular basis.... And he told me recently that we should go slaughter our neighbors and take their daughters for ourselves.... Would you call me a prophet or a loon?

Personally, I'd call you a loon (and I'd call God a d**k)...but I'm sure SOMEONE along the way would call you a prophet. :/

 

[Donowitz]

As it turns out most people who think God talks to them are either conmen, delusional, or some mixture of the above.

All people are equal. Why would God choose to talk to one person over another. Either he/she/it talks to all or talks to none.

 

[know it all]

god gives life to everything good bad or evil how you behave is up to you if humans go to
live in the desert they destroy the rattle snake first

 

[Musty]

...through a Burning Bush I found or in the middle of the desert when I was starving... OR just on a regular basis.... And he told me recently that we should go slaughter our neighbors and take their daughters for ourselves.... Would you call me a prophet or a loon?

Definitely a loon and as others have said I would think you were dangerous because such people tend to attract fanatics to their cause.

 

[Tranquil Servant]

...through a Burning Bush I found or in the middle of the desert when I was starving... OR just on a regular basis.... And he told me recently that we should go slaughter our neighbors and take their daughters for ourselves.... Would you call me a prophet or a loon?

I guess it depends on who your speaking to..
Me, personally..


4 Dear friends, don’t believe everyone who claims to have the Spirit of God. Test them all to find out if they really do come from God. Many false prophets have already gone out into the world, 2 and you can know which ones come from God. His Spirit says that Jesus Christ had a truly human body. 3 But when someone doesn’t say this about Jesus, you know that person has a spirit that doesn’t come from God and is the enemy of Christ. You knew that this enemy was coming into the world and now is already here.---1 John 4:1-3

 

[Brinne]

...through a Burning Bush I found or in the middle of the desert when I was starving... OR just on a regular basis.... And he told me recently that we should go slaughter our neighbors and take their daughters for ourselves.... Would you call me a prophet or a loon?

To be fair, very few Christians whom I've met in my area (Lutherans, United Church of Christ, Baptist, Methodist, and even some Mennonites) take the stories from the Bible as literal. Many people I have talked to view them as allegorical stories. Generally these things have a double meaning and you really need to reread and think about it to truly understand it. Some events are pretty straight forward in the Bible (such as the crucifixion) but others-others are more mysterious and require you to look deeper into the possible meanings. However, there are some people who take it literally and that is their choice nothing wrong with it.

Hope I explained that well.

 

[Sir Doom]

...through a Burning Bush I found or in the middle of the desert when I was starving... OR just on a regular basis.... And he told me recently that we should go slaughter our neighbors and take their daughters for ourselves.... Would you call me a prophet or a loon?

Who are the neighbors?

 

[Benoni]

To be fair, very few Christians whom I've met in my area (Lutherans, United Church of Christ, Baptist, Methodist, and even some Mennonites) take the stories from the Bible as literal. Many people I have talked to view them as allegorical stories. Generally these things have a double meaning and you really need to reread and think about it to truly understand it. Some events are pretty straight forward in the Bible (such as the crucifixion) but others-others are more mysterious and require you to look deeper into the possible meanings. However, there are some people who take it literally and that is their choice nothing wrong with it.

Hope I explained that well.

Absolutely, There is the letter that killeth, and the spirit quicken Word.

2 Corinthians 3:1Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? 2Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 4And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory