Christianity and the End Times

You still have it backwards. There's never an excuse for not being objective. Faith is only a backup plan in case objectivity doesn't produce useful results. It's you believers who are so faithful that you don't allow objectivity to grow. Backwards again. The problem is the lack of evidence for your claims. "Communion" with God doesn't make believers better people. If it makes them different at all, they seem to have a tendency to be ornery, arrogant, vindictive, etc. If they're learning something special from God's own lips, it's something I'm glad I don't have. You should know better than that too by now. Who better to understand what the Bible means than somebody who doesn't swallow hook-line-and-sinker what some goober tells him it means?

Well, yes, it would, wouldn't it? At least it would add more credence for the credulous. So the authors certainly would have had a motive for claiming/suggesting that they were eyewitnesses. Stop saying that. It's a lie. You've been shown many times.

I don't think it's even very deep down. It seems pretty clear that you're whistling in the dark.

And you never answer. It's like claiming you can bake a cake; until you actually bake one, nobody is going to believe you can do it - and it's going to be hard to believe anything else you say too.

Why do you keep posting the same nonsense over and over again? We DO have to do it ourselves. Even Jesus understood that. Why do you work so hard at defying what He said? I'd fall out of my chair in surprise.

Or you could talk to Loki every day without feeling weird or delusional. But I think even you would agree that if you talked to Loki every day, you would BE weird and delusional. You can "get answers" by watching the ducks. That doesn't mean the answers are coming from them.

Maybe they need God to lift them up to average.After all, we have schools to produce average students. Everybody can't be above average.

Sounds like John is talking to you.

That almost stuck to the wall. So you're saying that the way you live your life doesn't matter whether there's a God or not.

Wouldn't "being in communion" include doing what He told you to do - e.g. in Matthew 25? Didn't you notice the similarity between throwing the useless branches into the fire (John) and throwing the useless goats into everlasting fire (Matthew)?

You must be a Reform Calvinist.

But she feels bad about gloating. God forgives her for gloating and then she goes and gloats some more.

Yes, it's like whistling in the dark. It's to reassure yourself that you're okay even if in reality you're not. It's avoidance. Nonsense often is confusing.

But you don't defend it. All you ever say is, "I believe." That's not a defense. You might as well defend your country by standing still and letting your enemies shoot at you.If there really was a change, why would it not be visible to people around you? Why would a change that is only noticeable to you not be just in your own mind? You can't just hand-wave away the concept of evidence forever. In all honesty, don't you eventually have to concede that the evidence is right and your belief is wrong?

Evidence is our method - the human method. It's what frees us from belief. It does. If there is evidence, there is no excuse for belief. So I would say that they are mutually exclusive. It's true that if I thought your God was real I would still reject Him. He's no more appealing than a sharp stick in the eye. I don't know why you assume that believing in His existence would automatically lead to acceptance.