What of the other things that are allowed yet still have caffeine?
you do not see the need to provide reasons other than God or revelation
I have the belief that there are reasons for what God does and what is in revelation. I do not claim to know all of the reasons, though and think that some of the reasons people assume for such things aren’t consistent.
If God is real and is all knowing then when He says something then that is the way it is. How is that not consistent?
If God is real and is all knowing then when He says something then that is the way it is. How is that not consistent?
If X then Y
X
Therefore Y
This is the form of your statement (X is “God is real and all knowing” and Y is “Things are the way He says they are”) and I fully agree it is consistent. It is the second step—X is true—that you have not taken. “If X then Y, X, therefore Y” does not assert the truth of X, it conditions the truth of Y on the truth of X.
By way of analogy, there are many mathematical systems that are consistent yet do not apply to reality (in some senses, I believe, they are more consistent than the system(s) that do apply to reality!). Asserting their consistency will not make them apply to reality.
I have the belief that there are reasons for what God does and what is in revelation.
This is already deeply nested and derailed so I don’t feel bad pursuing this—could you please tell me what brought you to this belief (that there are reasons for what God does)? Be as concrete as possible, if you could!
I assume you mean by this that I have not proven to your satisfaction that X is true? I have presented to you most things that are easily with in my reach to show that God is real or to show ways to prove to yourself that God is real.
Consistency doesn’t make it apply to reality but I feel it is a necessary prerequisite to doing so.
could you please tell me what brought you to this belief?
For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
Moses 1:39
Then the knowledge that God is a glorified and perfected man, that is when it says “in our image and likeness” it wasn’t being figurative and that when Christ says He only does what He saw His Father do He was speaking literally. Also, “the glory of God is intelligence”. Also, the fact that if God did not act consistently then He would cease to be God, as per the Book of Mormon. Also, the fact that when Jesus said that life eternal was knowing God He was telling the truth and God is knowable.
Therefore God has a purpose, He acts consistently, and He is understandable, and He was human but is now perfectly intelligent. Therefore He has reasons for everything that He does.
What of the other things that are allowed yet still have caffeine?
I have the belief that there are reasons for what God does and what is in revelation. I do not claim to know all of the reasons, though and think that some of the reasons people assume for such things aren’t consistent.
If God is real and is all knowing then when He says something then that is the way it is. How is that not consistent?
If X then Y
X
Therefore Y
This is the form of your statement (X is “God is real and all knowing” and Y is “Things are the way He says they are”) and I fully agree it is consistent. It is the second step—X is true—that you have not taken. “If X then Y, X, therefore Y” does not assert the truth of X, it conditions the truth of Y on the truth of X.
By way of analogy, there are many mathematical systems that are consistent yet do not apply to reality (in some senses, I believe, they are more consistent than the system(s) that do apply to reality!). Asserting their consistency will not make them apply to reality.
This is already deeply nested and derailed so I don’t feel bad pursuing this—could you please tell me what brought you to this belief (that there are reasons for what God does)? Be as concrete as possible, if you could!
I assume you mean by this that I have not proven to your satisfaction that X is true? I have presented to you most things that are easily with in my reach to show that God is real or to show ways to prove to yourself that God is real.
Consistency doesn’t make it apply to reality but I feel it is a necessary prerequisite to doing so.
Moses 1:39
Then the knowledge that God is a glorified and perfected man, that is when it says “in our image and likeness” it wasn’t being figurative and that when Christ says He only does what He saw His Father do He was speaking literally. Also, “the glory of God is intelligence”. Also, the fact that if God did not act consistently then He would cease to be God, as per the Book of Mormon. Also, the fact that when Jesus said that life eternal was knowing God He was telling the truth and God is knowable.
Therefore God has a purpose, He acts consistently, and He is understandable, and He was human but is now perfectly intelligent. Therefore He has reasons for everything that He does.