Seems an oddly incongruous claim, alongside your earlier claims to have “answers to the big questions”, “personal experience of an all powerful deity”, and of course implying you have some evidence for a deity that is scientifically valid.
None of that sounds very humble to me. Also do you not value faith as a Christian? Only I’d consider faith, and an open mind to be rationally and epistemologically mutually exclusive.
A sound piece of advice would be for you to avoid using flowery religious metaphors whilst posting on here, since you’re predominantly speaking to atheists, and most atheists here are unlikely to view the preconceptions such metaphors often entail, as either humble or open minded. Or of much value in validating your beliefs.
That said the evidence is either objectively valid or not, and your perception of the attitude atheists may, or may not, have towards it, quite demonstrably has no rational or epistemological bearing on its validity.
As yet you’ve offered nothing, and like Whitefire, I view such claims and the motives behind them with well deserved suspicion. Given the amount of trolling and preaching theists so often indulge on here, any theist who doesn’t simply open with the best most compelling evidence they have, but instead waffles on making grandiose claims, deserves nothing but my suspicion.
Having an open mind simply means viewing all ideas without bias, and not as your post are already tacitly implying, that we need to be receptive or even favourable towards your claims. Rather an open mind should treat your claims as it does all others.
Now one more time…
What objective evidence can you demonstrate for any deity?
I do hope you are trolling, or the irony there is almost unbearable. Someone claiming to know God’s perspective, yet simultaneously claiming to be humble, and someone claiming to already know the answers to the big questions, yet simultaneously insisting everyone else be looking for answers, even though you clearly are not.
It’s not hard to see which answers you’re going to insist we look for, with an “open mind”.
Possibility must be demonstrated not merely asserted. What evidence do you have for the existence of this God thing. What is it you are calling god? Why should I care.
If you have no means of demonstrating possibility, there is no reason to assume possibility. Imagine an existence where anything I could think of could be possible, how insane would that be? So what evidence do you have for this god thing you speak of?
I am sorry, but I initially approached you with open arms and tried to prepare you for what may come. Your response was one of condescending arrogance, and you called me a liar.
But to return to the subject, please offer me any good reason why I should believe in any god. I can not embrace a religion until I am convinced a god exists. That would be dishonest.
Oh dear. Has the Church of the FSM (Flying Spaghetti monster) had a schism? Did part of the congregation storm off and form the denomination of the GSM (Great Spaghetti Monster)? Those 10 Commandments seem darker than the 8 “I 'd Rather You Didn’ts” of the FSM. Are they each calling themselves the true church? Are they screaming blasphemer and heretic at each other? Has anyone been burnt at the stake yet? I’m sticking with the FSM for now, but I’ll have to wait and see who has the better holidays.
Mine is VERY strong and bendy… and kind. He only allows kicking.
Kick puppies and kittens - babies and old ladies… he encourages it if they hate pasta!!!
If they’ve never tasted or tried pasta THEY should have known better - kick them anyway.
Pray that the loving and perfectly just omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient creator god of the universe that the theists all worship gets off of his fucking ass, stops watching children getting raped and begins doing something about it. (Ha ha ha ha ha … what an anti-biblical prayer, Children are not even worth shit in the Bible.) Pray for it anyway,