Where is God?

[Cobblestones]

He speaks to our spirit-man through the pysche that He created within us.

This would be the same psyche that in ages past God spoke through and told people that someone having an epileptic fit was possessed of the devil, is it? The same one that conjured up the idea that God needed to be appeased through sacrifices? The one that accepted all manner of theories about that which cannot be know no matter how counterintuitive to all reason such explanations are? That's the psyche that you're talking about?

Why not just admit that you are talking about things that cannot possibly be known and that you just don't know the answer? Seems a heck of a lot simpler and far more honest.

 

[Cobblestones]

Buddhism, Hinduism, pantheism, ancestor worship are valid! I never said they weren't.

You know, what's really throwing me off is that you list yourself as a "Christian" and yet you say stuff that at any other time in history would have landed you in a dungeon or burnt at the stake or excommunicated at the very least. I'm getting the impression that your theory of Christianity isn't really entirely Christian. I say this as a positive thing but still I find it perplexing that on the one hand you defend Christianity and then you come up with statements like this one.

 

[Cobblestones]

You're assuming "substitutionary atonement." It's throwing you off. You're also confusing reconciliation for our propensity to sin with our acknowledgment of sin and our need to confess and ask forgiveness to aid in our process of healing. Forgiveness is a human process. Reconciliation is a Divine event.

And you're assuming the concept of sin, which I don't.

 

[Cobblestones]

Right god doesn't have to force himself because in "The Word" Christians are instructed to shout from the highest mountain.

You know, that's an interesting point. I think if god was actually present and communicating with people individually there would be no need for priest, prophets and evangelists, would there? It seems to me that humans have a long history of getting it wrong. Ever play "telephone"? It makes no sense to me that god would be stupid enough to rely on humans to deliver his message accurately.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

You know, that's an interesting point. I think if god was actually present and communicating with people individually there would be no need for priest, prophets and evangelists, would there? It seems to me that humans have a long history of getting it wrong. Ever play "telephone"? It makes no sense to me that god would be stupid enough to rely on humans to deliver his message accurately.

It makes perfect sense for a god invented by man.

 

[Cobblestones]

It makes perfect sense for a god invented by man.

True.