I can demonstrate the changes that have occurred in my life in correlation with my striving to live the teachings of God. So you're saying "good" is completely relative?
I know that God is not relative because it has been revealed to me by the Holy Spirit of God, which is essentially revelation from God. Not some figment of my own imagination. I have tested it all my life. When I defy the teachings of God, it is always the same result: I always end up miserable...
People dispute the "spirit of Jesus' teachings" too. But there is a way to "know for sure what those teachings are". It is called divinely revealed truth. The scriptures contain them, but I also believe in continuing revelation, otherwise known as modern prophecy. We cannot know God unless he...
You're right, it's possible that my understanding could be incorrect. It's also possible that certain truths have been revealed to me, in which then my understand would be correct.
I won't argue with that.
But your not giving good examples of how man did not make or create or define gods...
Yes, I know many of God's characteristics because they have been revealed. Man cannot know God unless it is revealed to him. Any yes, if God contradicted himself, he would not be God.
But that "set of facts" as a whole (the theory) is not a law. And while I'm not a science guy, and don't know much about the theory of evolution, I'm confident that it doesn't contradict the creation story.
I know. I said that. Science does not prove anything, it can only prove hypotheses...
Please explain.
Not sure I understand what you're saying
Let's see here. By logic, the only thing that this phenomenon proves is that there are many people who understand God differently. There is no possible way that God could be arbitrary or relative. The entire collection of scripture...
No, it is the natural consequence of believing truth is absolute. If truth is absolute, then all deviations to it are false. Holding that belief, completely different takes are less real in reality
What "evidence implies" arbitrary action by deity?
And that might be the difference between you and me, that I believe the laws and teachings of God to be absolute and unchanging. My belief in God's deliberativeness is not affected by the fact that in no point in history has man been in consensus as to the true nature and teachings of God.
"Faith is to hope for things which are not seen, but which are true (Hebrews 11:1), and must be centered in Jesus Christ in order to produce salvation. To have faith is to have confidence in something or someone. The Lord has revealed Himself and His perfect character, possessing in their...