07-08-2020, 11:01 PM
(07-07-2020, 03:26 AM)sixtynine seventy Wrote: Skepticism is inappropriate to the Lord and to angels...
I don't think that skepticism is off the table for any claim. I mean, if I were skeptical about my mother's love for me, that would be odd. Why? She lives. I speak to her nearly daily. She tells me everything. She holds me in great esteem. She tells me that she loves me. To be skeptical would be absurd in this case. However, God has never spoken to me. I have no reason to not be skeptical about claims people make about God, and angels even seem more beyond-reality than God in my eyes. Believing in angelic beings seems to me to be akin to believing in fairies or demons. I just don't see any evidence that such things exist. I remain skeptical, waiting for evidence to present itself and being uncommitted to belief in any of these things until I get reliable evidence that I can take into consideration.
Mysticism to me is really out there. I don't understand it at all. It seems that a mystic can believe in anything and nothing, since everything is subjective and nothing can truly be rejected so long as you imagine that you heard or felt something.