That idea feels like it starts with me rather than with objective truth. Like “Hey god, this is what I think, what do you think about that? Do you disagree with me, huh, huh!?”
And then if god disagrees, saying “ok then, since you’ve proved yourself, I’ll believe in you.”
As if the proof of god being the god of truth is that a person doesn’t like what god says.
That makes no sense to me.
Then consider this: how could the God of the Universe happen to agree with all views that you happen to agree with?
For example: you don’t like the fact that homosexuals can’t have sex in the manner they desire. So you say, “God doesn’t care if homosexuals have sex with each other!”
You don’t like the fact that a pregnant woman can’t choose to end the life in her body. That’s personally distasteful to yo. So you say, “God doesn’t see abortions as immoral!”
Does that sound logical to you? That every single moral issue that you personally want to be the law of the world coincides with the Law of God?
Do we have that within us that resonates and recognizes truth, or do we merely stumble around and find god by default because it’s the thing we DON’T resonate with, and if we don’t believe or like it, then it must be true?
No one is saying that we find god by default.
Only that it ought to give us pause if we’re in a church that preaches everything that we think is kosher.
And when that preacher says things that we don’t agree with, we leave and shop for a pastor who preaches everything we want to hear.
I cannot prove another persons experience or premise because it does not match my own.
This is very Catholic.
My search for truth never started with me and what I believed or liked.
As is this!
Truth is truth, it’s not truth because I agree with it or disagree with it. It’s not more truthful because of how much it disagrees with me
Indeed.
But remember, if your god never disagrees with you, then it’s really likely that you’re worshiping the god of the Almighty Self.
I cannot make myself into a god because I don’t like truth.
But you can create a false god who happens to agree with all your own preferences.
Again, maybe I simply am missing some rhetorical, hypothetical or ironic aspect of what others are saying, maybe my brain does not operate that way and I am too literal to take part in this particular discussion. But I keep seeing that quote about a person’s god not disagreeing with them and it truly makes no sense to me.
Try and look at it from this point: do you think that there could be a situation where a human creature says, “I believe that it’s not wrong to [fill in the blank]” but God actually believes that it is wrong?
Can you answer the above question? Yes? Or no?
