@spendius,
Quote:I don't happen to think so Spade.
The manner in which you talk about God is the very opposite of humble. You are connecting God with man's fate. With yourself. We cannot possibly divine anything about God. We can only sense a "presence". As in animism.
And the interpretations you lay upon God are draining the concept of God. In some theologies it is forbidden to provide God with a Name. The notion that God takes care of us is ludicrously fantastic as the atheists perceive and point out.
You are exhausting the substance of the concept. Using God as some sort of pose. Killing God for a conversational gambit which is aggressive.
The idea that God is tied up with man's fate in an age when we are getting smaller and smaller in the face of mass industrial society implies that God is getting smaller and smaller. Is Dying.
You ain't humble at all Spade. You gave us a self-comforting assertion.
Sorry bud...again I disagree...Perhaps if You knew me in person you would think otherwise??
If I am a prophet of God, Should I spread the words he tells me too...So that others understand what he wants them to know?? Or keep them to myself, and be a Prophet of God for nothing?? And if I am spreading what he says to say, How am I connecting God with man's fate...to myself? Not what God want people to actually hear?? And how do people not know anything about God, only the presence??
My description of my dreams in Heaven and Hell suggest otherwise....
It is not all goodness, and or evil, but that is what God told me to speak, so that people would understand him, thru my life....A prophet of his...
I am speaking as the Spirit speaks thru me, So I can not see how you would think I am minimizing God...I have asked God and prayed about this, and said If I am doing wrong then stop me....and he always says, Go and spread my words to the world and do not doubt me...
If I did not do it, there would be no reason for me to hear and see him in my life, every day and night....(prophetically) And I might as well say to God, I do not wish to spread your words, so take the gift away....
What good would it do to keep the gift to myself, and not tell others about it? Or what God says??
And if you think me calling myself a Prophet of God, makes me not a humble person...Than I would say that that is being truthful...Since I hear and see God telling me so....
Also, your other reply to Bill, about me being intelligent, and it taking me till I was 30 to understand....
Who said that because I was nearly 30 when I posted the importance of a Birthday was one year closer to being with God....
Meant that I was 30 years old when I understood this concept>?