| Aielyn said: You think that the idea of a god's relationship with a person manifesting as a conscience isn't meaningful? You seem to confuse the "purpose" of a god with the "manifestation" of it. If a god manifested as a pencil, that wouldn't prevent such a god from being all-powerful. You seem to be seeking justification for considering "a relationship with god" to mean "speaking with god in your head" or "accepting that god is real", but there's no reason to make that assumption. The problem I'm seeing is that you're arguing against "God" without ever having defined it. And no, "the bible does" isn't a valid response, because the bible never actually addresses the nature of the god (to be clear, I don't mean "nature" as in "attitude", I mean it as in "what the god is made of and how it interacts with the world normally"). |
By saying that God is a conscience, inner voice, or whatever, you must also assert that people don't have the ability to reject God, since no one can stop the voices in their head. This is flawed because the Bible says you have the Free Will ability to reject God, so your interpretation is wrong, or the idea of God is contradictory.
