SBC: Question: How do you know you aren't hearing Allah's voice?
Answer: Because you don't live in a Muslim-predominant country. (Edit)
Cuz Allah doesn't speak English.
in direct contradiction to the testimony of some of our friends and family, billy graham weighs in.
billy graham says christians don't actually hear the voice of god.
.. the question should have put billy in a dilemma.
SBC: Question: How do you know you aren't hearing Allah's voice?
Answer: Because you don't live in a Muslim-predominant country. (Edit)
Cuz Allah doesn't speak English.
in direct contradiction to the testimony of some of our friends and family, billy graham weighs in.
billy graham says christians don't actually hear the voice of god.
.. the question should have put billy in a dilemma.
Well I would like to thank Billy Graham for his insight, but I think most of us already knew that there is no such thing as a voice of god/christ/supreme being. Any percieved 'voices' are a direct result of chemical/electrical processes occuring in our brain. The heart is an organ. It pumps blood.
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bill o'reilly vs. bill maher on religion - 09/30/10 .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zref_lpir_k.
I don't watch either of these guys but always enjoy watching snippets from time to time of their, ahem, debates.
this isn't a 'prove god exists' thread, it's a 'what if' thread .
what if god's existence could be proven beyond any doubt?
what if god were to actually show himself so that nobody could doubt his existence?.
I would be thrilled! -Snoozy
Even if the discovered god was Allah?
Hey, I'd be thrilled for any indifferent supreme being that finally reveals itself to the world. Beggars can't be choosers, afterall.
this isn't a 'prove god exists' thread, it's a 'what if' thread .
what if god's existence could be proven beyond any doubt?
what if god were to actually show himself so that nobody could doubt his existence?.
What would constitute conclusive proof?
The opposite of the situation today where there is a severe lack of sufficient evidence. If that occurs, then my justification for skepticism could be unjustified. Also, the evidence would not be supplied by those who already 'know' and 'believe' that a god exists. In other words, a god that could directly supply me with evidence without resorting to what men/women have written down, personal revelations, and emotional appeals. Also, this god would reveal themselves to everyone on earth simultaneously. Now that would be something.
this isn't a 'prove god exists' thread, it's a 'what if' thread .
what if god's existence could be proven beyond any doubt?
what if god were to actually show himself so that nobody could doubt his existence?.
If god was proven to be true, I honestly have no idea what my reaction would be. It would all depend on this particular god's reason for all of the sudden proving their existence to me and what it would like me to do.
Of course my first question would be, "How many more of you are out there?"
What proves that Jehovah's Witnesses are the wrong religion?
Charles Taze Rusell. Nuff said.
this isn't a 'prove god exists' thread, it's a 'what if' thread .
what if god's existence could be proven beyond any doubt?
what if god were to actually show himself so that nobody could doubt his existence?.
If god was proven to be true by sufficient extraordinary evidence and not based on my 'feelings' or 'knowing' and I was also very certain that I wasn't delusional or emotional at the time and that this proof wasn't delivered by any mediator (written or otherwise), I'd have to say "OK, now what?". But if this god turned out to be the god of the hebrews or muslims or christians, etc, I'd have to say "No thanks, I got enough halibut for now."
if so what do you think he / she / it is?.
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Nope! Don't find sufficient evidence for this devil character to be real. Bible also isn't evidence for me that a devil exists (or god for that matter). This devil character is no different than the bogey man IMHO. I do find it interesting that this character sure gets blamed a lot for the trouble people find themselves in. It's almost like some people don't like to be accountable for their own actions and use this devil character as a convenient explanation for all the bad in the world. What was it that Flip Wilson use to say?
and that's why they are in the religion?.
i recall many jws over the years who were what i'll call "weird"---and looking back at it, many witnesses are "odd" and "different"..
Depends on your definition of mental illness / impariment. Being socially maladjusted (as opposed to personality disorders) isn't what I call a mental illness.