The only way we can know about God is if he tells us. We can’t leave the Universe, look at him, and come back, because we remain part of the Universe. Where we go, it goes. But God is outside the Universe.
So we won’t know anything about God without a revelation from God.
That means listening to someone who thinks they have a revelation from God.
And that is, as I said in the title, like offering our email addresses to spammers. The world is full of people who think God is speaking to them. A lot of them are kooks.
What do we do?
As I wrote in my book More than Bananas, I think the only tool in our box is our total human response. So this must involve:
- Reason
- Common sense
- Intuition
- Emotion
- What the community around us thinks
- What the community who believe in revelation is like
and
- A certain element of risk
Interesting…
(Note: More than Bananas is currently available as a free download as a kind of ‘gateway drug’ to my other writing.)
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