And you never will. Put 20 Christians in a room and they'll not be able to reach an accord on any one thing in scripture. Forums such as this are proof of that.
And that isn't exclusive to Christians. It is the same with Pagans, Wiccans, Buddhists, and all others who first think something outside themselves cares about who they are, what they do, where they're at, and where they're going.
The God institutionalized religion creates is born of narcissism. Think about it. "My" god loves me best. My god doesn't like you because you don't see "him" my way. Etc....
The Buddhists, who are atheist, have a saying: If you meet the Buddha on the road kill him.
Because Buddha was a man, interestingly enough he was a morbidly obese Indian (India) man who gained insight while sitting under a Bodhi tree. Was his nirvana natural? Or did he happen to chew something that helped him with that? One doesn't know. But regardless, what that saying means is, if you can identify God with your own eyes you're delusional.
But that is exactly what organized religions purport to do. And that is why the teachings of the Prince of Peace, Yeshua/Jesus, have become fractured in the properties of sectarian ideologies. Each group of people with the eyes to see, see God their way. And that builds a fence round so that they see others as wrong.
Jesus wasn't a Christian. Nor is God.
Know what? That comes as news to some who may find this post in a Google search.
"WHAT?" They will say! "How dare you!" They will charge. And yet, it's true.
Christians were so named first in Antioch, what is today's modern of south-central Turkey. And this long after Jesus departed this Earth.
And so how did sects evolve out of that word?
Men.
All teachings of Christ were disposed to men's thinking how to arrive at an understanding of them and so they achieved an eternal namesake for themselves. Martin Luther, Lutheran. John Calvin, a sadistic attorney turned theologian, Calvinism. Etc...
But what do the scriptures say? All scripture is breathed out by God, God's breath.
What else? In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.
Sounds like writing on the wall/page doesn't it?
Not really. Jesus spoke his message to those who would hear it. Born into the Jewish tradition, teacher in the temple reading from the sacred scrolls, Jesus was the words on those pages made flesh.
Jesus was asked by his Disciples, master why is everything you say in parables? (Matthew 13:10-11)
Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
13.Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
In the beginning was the word, God . Sound, resonance, vibration, harmonics, atomic power, creative and divine.
Did you know that sound waves can knock down a building?
God isn't found in books, nor in sects, nor in traditions made by men. Scripture teaches us that. God cannot be contained in structures built by human hands, so how could he ever be solely found as described in a book compiled by men? Forty different authors believed to have been inspired to write God's breath to the parchment before them. And yet, there are missing books. Those other men decreed were not worthy of being taken that seriously.
And then we have it. The Canon. Arrived at by a vote! The closed Canon! Declared to be, after that vote, the last and final time God will speak his words, give his breath, to humanity.
Really?
I think atheists exist because they think in terms of what man has constructed God to be. And in reviewing that composite the atheist says, not possible! That isn't holy. That's not superior or a higher power or a supreme being. It's unbelievable.
And so it is.
Which came first? God? Or mans conception of what is invisible and yet energetically creative?
Maybe consider doing this. Review what you believe about all that exists and your role in the life you're living.
You say we can't prove to you God exists and yet you can't prove to us he doesn't. Yours is a subjective bias identifying what first must be God and then rejecting that as impossible.
But what if God is everywhere you look? The atom that science theorizes is there, is mostly empty space, moving constantly and to a rhythm and that is altered by vibrations, sounds, and that manifests everything we
believe to be solid matter that in truth is an illusion. Because those moving atoms are vibrating together to form for our mind, through our visual cortex, solid form that isn't really real.
If that chair you're sitting in really isn't a solid chair on the invisible atomic level of vibration, how can you imagine that there is no proof of God that.....you can see?
Remember: Parable. Metaphor. Allegory. Simile.
If you wanted to create a map to an infinite replenishing treasure would you write it out as a simple easy to read diagram? Or would you make it a mystery to be unlocked by those meant to find their way to it?
Parable. God is a spirit. In the beginning was the word.
And the word was with God.
And the word was God. What is a word? Say something , a word, aloud. Do you hear that? That rhythm, that vocal quality that mixes your accent, your breath, with the visual the word conjures to your mind as you speak it aloud.
Someone across the room can speak in a different language so as to vocalize that same picture in their native word. Does that object the word describes change because the language describing it aloud does?
Keeping that in mind, do you want to see God?