An e-mail:

Rev. Max—We may at times get direction from God, but I am leery of the kind of ‘encounters with God’ you speak of. They may come from other sources, our imaginations, psychosis, even from the adversary himself.

Tom

Tom, Paul’s Road-to-Damascus experience was not a psychotic event, nor did it come from the Devil.

His NDE described in II Cor. 12 was not imagined.

Peter’s vision in Acts 10:9-16 did not reflect a deranged mind.

Conservative Christians are scared of religious experiences. They know people of all faiths can have them.

And the God we meet in experience is one who loves all people equally and unconditionally.

In other words, we meet in experience the God we know in Jesus Christ. We do not meet the angry and vengeful God of right-wing Christianity.

Why?

Because that God does not exist.

But let’s not let liberal Christianity off the hook. Liberal Christians often propose a useless God who does absolutely nothing.

That God does not exist either.

The God I know through both Jesus Christ and experience is one who is invested personally in our lives.

“In Him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts 17:28.) And this God is available to us and accessible to us through experience.

So, as a Christian, I am not liberal nor am I conservative. What am I?

I am a person committed to the evidence.

I don’t just believe.

I know.

And you can, too.+++

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