The major blunder that many theologians and philosophers make is assuming that there is a higher authority than God Himself. If God tells you something, these folks will scoff and say that Divine revelation cannot be accepted as a valid proof of anything. They will then insist that you prove the validity of what God is saying by turning to the superior authority of human reasoning and/or human agreement. What kind of sense does this make?
If you really want to be granted access to deeper insights about God, you must first accept the fact that humans are blind, ignorant fools when it comes to spiritual matters. God is the only Authority on God, thus when God speaks, to question Him on the basis of human logic is utterly absurd.
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Sane Christian: "Until people give consistent reports on what God said, we kind of have to validate them. It's ultimately on people to tell whether something is from God, Satan, or themselves.
"Normally, I would assume that you can't possibly not understand that, but you've already made it quite clear that you make no attempt at discernment, Miss 'God guides the rapist to my personal front door.'"
"assuming that there is a higher authority than God Himself."
How do you personally know that there isn't , Annie...?!
'Assume. Where you make an ASS out of U , but not ME .'
A Rainbow doesn't physically exist. But it can be seen . Even Stevie Wonder can see that your 'logic' is utterly absurd.
" If God tells you something, these folks will scoff and say that Divine revelation cannot be accepted as a valid proof of anything."
"If you really want to be granted access to deeper insights about God, you must first accept the fact that humans are blind, ignorant fools when it comes to spiritual matters."
If one accepts sentence 2 as a given, then the "folks" in sentence 1 are correct.
Anna is awarded 50 points for successful self-contradiction.
Edit: Do you suppose that God hasn't revealed himself because he's too busy running away from Anna? ... Nah! ... Then again, she makes quite the stalker....
thus when God speaks, to question Him on the basis of human logic is utterly absurd.
Maybe one day, if He exists, God will actually speak, and then we probably won't have a choice in the matter. But when humans speak and try to claim they're speaking for God, it's not absurd at all to tell them they're full of crap, especially when there are thousands of religions all making up different baloney about what some god or gods want.
If a person repeats what she claims Bible God says to her, then she is:-
1) Telling the truth.
Therefore, she has a one in five chance that an invisible ghost, with all the attributes of a rabid desert beardie, actually spoke to her. Cor! Fancy that!
++"The major blunder that many theologians and philosophers make is assuming that there is a higher authority than God Himself. If God tells you something, these folks will scoff and say that Divine revelation cannot be accepted as a valid proof of anything. They will then insist that you prove the validity of what God is saying by turning to the superior authority of human reasoning and/or human agreement. What kind of sense does this make?"
From her previous quote:++"Any nutcase can spend a night in a cave and come out claiming to have had some dramatic epiphany. Why do you put your trust in the words of mere mortals when you could ask God Himself"
Why don't you make up your fucking mind on what YOU believe before you go trying to tell us what we should believe.
"The major blunder that many theologians and philosophers make is assuming that there is a higher authority than God Himself. If God tells you something, these folks will scoff and say that Divine revelation cannot be accepted as a valid proof of anything."
Are you saying theologians do not accept the reality of God or any of his communications with prophets or the ancient Hebrews?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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