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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 437 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
Or if he were real clever he'd give me 72 virgin females to cope with. They don't realize it, but when they get to heaven, there will be 72 virginians (not virgins) there waiting to kick their asses. Once again the lines between God and religion are blurred by people in this thread. Who ever thinks heaven will be filled with religious people, is probably mistaken, at least that's what the bible says. I can see from some responses that people are visioning heaven as hell, then choosing hell, because they feel it is better. But it is not about choosing once you die. Now is the time to choose, through every decision you make in life.
jar writes: Don't know I can't help but feel this is not the answer jar wants to give, but the answer he feels he should give. Whats the matter jar, your not forgiven? How can you not know, you don't remember everything you have done in your life? Well neither does Jesus. We are not perfect, and that's ok. Just as long as you are not knowingly evil, I would think, and hope that most of us here will be in heaven. My answer is heaven, and not by my own doing.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 437 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
As for someone saying they know GOD exists, they are simply lying to themselves successfully, and that is very sad. How can you say that with any authority? If God appeared right in front of you, you would have no way to prove it, but you would know that God exists. I used to ridicule people who "thought" they saw angels. I have changed my stance on that, because I have learned that just about anything is possible. By your statement you have judged a bunch of people.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 437 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
How would I tell it really was GOD and not some other critter? How would I know it was a real experience and not just an hallucination? Your saying the God that created you, wouldn't verify himself to you? I would hope He at least has that ability. I already feel He does, and has to me. I don't know why, or why it took so long, but it just is. I can not prove it to you, but it is proven to me. This does not mean I still do not need faith. This is why I think I am going to heaven, and why I think many people are.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 437 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
What is the test of a God? truth, love.He created you, I don't think you need to test it.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 437 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
how can you know the experience is God and not some other critter or even just your imagination? Like I said, you will just know, and you can't prove it to others. Do you need to test the fact that you see this forum? Of course not.Can you prove to others that you see the forum, only if they can see it too.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 437 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
I'm sorry but you or anyone else who "Knows" god are simply lying to yourselves. Something I would expect to hear from someone who has not met God.
Jones "Knew" God spoke to him. His followers "Knew" God spoke to them. There is no way to prove that.You can't prove he believed it, or whether God spoke to him or not. Of course I can. Others do see it and in fact we can gather a group, look at a given message and all agree exactly which letters were used and what order they were in. You missed my point.
How do you know GOD? I think therefor I am.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 437 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
I missed no point. We can establish that this forum exists. Not if you are the only one who can see it, that was my point that you missed. The other point that I made, that you keep missing, is that you cannot prove God to anyone, so stop asking me "how do you know God". This does not mean that God does not exist, and that He does not speak to people, or that people do not see angels.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 437 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
And as I pointed out to you, that is simply not the case with the forum. It can be independently verified. My original statement was, you cannot verify it, if others cannot see it. Then you go on to explain how others can see it. Please, explain how you can verify that this forum exists, if others could not see it.
Then you agree it is impossible for you to "Know" that what you believe is God really is God. If not, then how do you tell the difference? How do you recognize truth?How do you know love? Again, how do you "Know" that what you think is God is God and not some other critter? Some things in life, do not need testing.Do you need to test that you exist? I am not asking if you can.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 437 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
An analogy based on a straw-man representation of what Jar said. If someone's knowledge can be verified in some way then it has greater worth. The validity of said knowledge increases with the number of verfications. There are billions of people that believe Jesus was the son of God.The rest of the world also acknowldges His existance, but do not believe He was the son of God, but just a prophet. Yet there are still people in this forum who claim that He never even existed. I know many people who feel EXACTLY the same thing I feel from God. We even get parallel messages from God, at the same times. Regardless of all that, I do not need any verification to know God, what God has provided me with is enough. Some things go beyond science, and verification.
A defendant is standing trial for a crime in court. Ten eyewitnesses say the defendant didn't do it, whereas one lone man says he "knows" the defendant did it despite the fact he wasn't present. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, is what the courts require. Jesus said it is your faith that gets you healed. How do you verify faith? Verification is only based on apon what is seen. What about the unseen?
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 437 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
I did refute that assertion. First, others CAN see it. Not crap jar, I know others can see it, that is why I presented to you differently than that, yet you keep going back to that. The point is, you do not need to verify anything, it is plainly obvious that when you look at this forum, you are indeed looking at this forum, unless you want to start getting into some kind of abstract conversation. Other people see and hear from God, but it is not neccessary for me to verify it with them. Everyone can llok at a cloud and see a different picture within, that doesn't mean that the cloud does not exist.
How can you know that it is GOD and not some demon? Because demons are evil.How do you know you are looking at this forum, and not some naked woman? If you are honest, you admit that unless it can be tested and verified you cannot. Verification is in your heart, since God created it.The testing lies in your journey with Him. He exists, but it is up to you to choose whether you want to accept it or not, and if you do accept it, just how you see fit to accept it. You believe in God, that is some sort of verification right there. Even though your opinions differ from mine, that does not mean that god does not exist.
You though assert that you "KNOW" God. For clarification, I always claim that I believe in God to others. I do not want to come across as a know it all. In my heart I believe I know God, would be more accurate. I say it that way, because God cannot be proven to others, except but to love them the way God loves me. It is within your right to accept what I am saying, or not accept it.Both me and God leave it up to you, I find that to be "Christ like".
There is little doubt that I exist. But there is always doubt. Nothing in science is ever proven. So I don't even know why we are having this conversation. You think because there is less doubt that you exist, or should I say more proof that you exist, than God exists, that somehow you exist more than God? I don't believe in odds, if there are odds are that it will happen, then one day it will happen. The percentage of validity has little to do with the possibilities, in reality. But for now it is the best tool we have in certain situations to acertain life. I find the lines between objectiveness and subjectiveness are blurred, and really eveything is sunbjective, because we view it through our subjective minds.
How do you know that it is God and not some demon? Would you say that the truth has a feeling accociated with it?
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 437 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
seemingly good to con the gullible. That's evil.
I know I am looking at this forum and not a naked women because it is verifiable. You respond to me. Even inanimate objects can find and catalog the forum and this thread and message. And still you cannot prove any of it.
For clarification, I always claim that I believe in God to others. Good. So you admit yuo do not Know GOD. Not to others. That's not my job.This does not mean that I do not know God, and that god has indeed verified Himself to me. Finally. Yes. You believe in GOD. So do I. But I do not KNOW GOD exists, I can only believe in GOD. That's where we part ways. I know God exists, or at least the illusion that some critter is posing as God to this earth. Nothing is 100% certain in life, so stop asking me to make it so.But I verify God's existance on a daily basis, and He exists for me, just like this forum exists for you. I know God exists just like I know that I exist. None of it is provable. You can't even really prove that 2+2=4. For a long time it was not verifiable at all. But thanks to the Holy Spirit, and God's grace, my faith extends beyond just a simple belief.I am not privy to this, anyone can experience it, that is my belief.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 437 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
There is statistical proof that "feelings" and experience are a poor guide to truth and understanding. The opposite can also be said.
All your confirmation of your faith from experience and feelings is no less or more valid than a pious Muslim’s experience and feelings. Their strength in their faith is just as strong as yours with the same degree of "confirmation". But that is only further proof that God exists. I am not putting down anyones faith, or even trying to understand why they feel what they feel. But it is all evidence of supernatural stuff. I am also not relying on my own personal feelings. I have been through this numerous times before in this forum, and I have opened myself up for review. I am not a gullible person when it comes to spuernatural stuff, and for 38 years of my life, I did not believe any of it existed. But we are getting off topic, the topic is not whether or not God is provable, I never said He was. I don't need to discuss with others about my faith in God, but I know for myself that God exists. That doesn't make me anything more than you. This whole thread is based on the premise "if God exists" so it is pointless to discuss if The existance of God is provable.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 437 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
It is not possible for you to know that. Why not? We talk about it amoung each other all the time. We get the same "downloads" from God all the time. This is off topic anyway. We have had this conversation several times before, it is getting old. I know you don't accept it, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. When you say stuff like that to me, you give me the impression that you think I am some kind of floozy air-head who just believes whatever. Please....
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 437 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
You are not inside their mind with them, so you cannot know if you are feeling EXACTLY the same feelings as they are. EXACTLY? LOLI never said EXACTLY If you were paying attention, I was saying that nothing can ever be proven, so there is no such thing as exactly anyway.What's that principal? No two people could ever see this forum the same way, but that doesn't mean it exists or not. I have already explained how there are 6 billion stories on the planet, so from that statement you should not have claimed that I was saying EXACTLY to anything. Another reading comprehension problem on your part.
Well, not quite, although I do think that you put far, far too much credence in the accuracy and truth of your own perceptions and resist critical examination and doubt of those perceptions. Yes, this is my universe, and I am the only one who exists in it, any questions?
You generally tend to ignore bias and wishful thinking and communal reinforcement, especially in your own beliefs. Just the opposite. I base what I feel on what I know, and never admit to knowing everything, therefor.....
IOW, you are a pretty typical human. I guess I'll take that as a compliment, unless you think you are above humans or something.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 437 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
Yes you did, in message #176. You even emphasized the word by using all-caps: I know what I said.I said I know people who feel exactly the same thing I feel from God. This does not mean everything is the same, but certain things are EXACTLY the same. You turned it into EVERYTHING EXACTLY, when that was not what I meant, something you do all the time, twist words around, or just not understand what was meant. You very clearly make some claim in a post, and then when you are called on it, you say you never made it, or that's not what you meant, or some such excuse. I never deny anythig, or lie.
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