I don't know what this has to do with my question regarding your seeking direct confirmation about animal sacrifice in a future dialogue with God, but I'll run with it.
lol Cycel....i was 'asking' someone who claims Jesus hangs out right next to him, speaks directly to him....to ask Him if animal sacrifices are planned for the millennium.
, since it's not in Scripture.
translation: if someone is getting direct revelation, why can't they please ask God if He has this planned.
(He doesn't, and isn't giving anyone direct revelation about His Plans since they are already recorded).
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If simply looking at nature provided sufficient evidence for the existence of God then the Argument from Nature would head off all proofs for God’s existence. It would go like this: ‘Nature exists, therefore God exists. Period’. Of course the Sumerians might rephrase the argument: ‘Nature exists, therefore Marduk exists. Period.’ This is a problem for your argument, yes?
no. reference:
Romans 1
God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness
18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men,
who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.
So they are without excuse.
21For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him,
but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were
darkened. 22Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25
because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God
gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Though they know God’s decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them
there are no true atheists.
only people who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, refusing to acknowledge God.
many of us were like this at one time - but He is good to forgive...if we do not continue in such unbelief.
Any people might claim the very existence of the world as proof for the existence of their creator god. On the other hand someone like myself would say that the existence of the world is proof that the Nebular Hypothesis is in some basic form correct.
well, yes i know.
my late husband claimed the same thing.
do you think he was right?
are you sure?
he was the kindest; most generous and brilliant man i ever knew. a Prof.
open-minded; well educated; interested in all religions as studies in "human nature" - except Christianity...that one struck a nerve.
So, in short, the existence of the world is really not proof of anything. The prerequisite to believing that nature is proof of God’s existence is itself Belief in God.
LOL.
Cycel, what caused the Big Bang?
what was behind it in space and time?
anything?
(this is my thread - open for all manner of things not related to the "weird title"
) - GO FOR IT.