If God appeared to you and told you something in the Bible was wrong, how would you react?

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If it really was God, I'd be like "okay." It would kind of depend on what was wrong though. Such a minor detail wouldn't really affect me.
 
Gonna be honest, considering past run-ins with religious Kiwis I'm surprised this question has been handled well so far.

When I asked this question elsewhere I got a lot of Bible Literalist types who said they would just default to believing "God" is actually a demon come to fool them. Which to me seems paradoxical and basically means they're so stubborn that even if it really is God, they'd never believe it.
 
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Ibanez RG 350EX said:
Isn't the whole point that divine providence has handed down the message faithfully? If you don't believe that the Bible is the word of God and could be deceiving you, it feels like the whole thing necessarily falls apart.
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there are a lot of different takes about this, but a common approach is to just stick to the NT vibe of living your own life the best you can and letting God worry about the particulars. the idea being that the general thrust of the Bible is true - the existence of God, the creation of Earth, the story of Jesus, etc. - but that some details might be misunderstood or mistranslated. however, humans have an innate knowledge of Good from Evil, and so as long as you work to keep that moral compass pointed towards God as much as possible, your heart is in the right place, and any missteps (which are impossible to avoid anyway) get wiped out with repentance & judgment when you hit the pearly gates.
 
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Dunno it’s a difficult one when you think about it. Am i sure it’s God? Not a demon? Why is He telling me this? What possible utility is there in telling some completely unimportant human that there’s a typo somewhere? Is this something the rest of humanity needs to know about?
It’s a fun thought experiment. Assuming it actually is God, I’d be amazed He told me and I’d ask what He wanted me to do with rhe information.

There’s a story by Greg bear called Trinity you might like. It’s very short
 
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Dunno it’s a difficult one when you think about it. Am i sure it’s God? Not a demon? Why is He telling me this? What possible utility is there in telling some completely unimportant human that there’s a typo somewhere? Is this something the rest of humanity needs to know about?
It’s a fun thought experiment. Assuming it actually is God, I’d be amazed He told me and I’d ask what He wanted me to do with rhe information.

There’s a story by Greg bear called Trinity you might like. It’s very short
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Yeah same thing. If God actually told me this truth, I'd expect to abandon all my mortal possessions and live the rest of my life with the purpose of telling this specific information and witnessing that He spoke to me, and probably die soon after as a matyr like the apostles.

It's not even an angel, it's God Himself coming down from Heaven to speak directly to you. There's no doubt what He says must be important and shared with the rest of the world, unless He states otherwise.
 
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Ok god the bible is not true.
Then what is the true religion so I can go to heaven???
If he replies ""islam"" then i am talking with satan
If he replies ""judaism"" that means that there are jews inside my brain
Any other answer is acceptable.
 
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Make a note of it, assume he'll pull some strings to let people believe me because otherwise personally telling me was pointless, and then ask him if that Metatron stuff is true and also why he became so much less fond of physics-defying miracles the more we could document and observe them.
And also maybe if he can beam knowledge of how to make the theoretically perfect battery
 
Haven't read the bible
I assume it's all wrong schizo salad anyways
I am better than god then I guess
 
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I’d ask if it’s a test. I’d ask Him if it was a minor mistranslation on the part of human beings and then ask The Church to correct it.
 
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skykiii said:
When I asked this question elsewhere I got a lot of Bible Literalist types who said they would just default to believing "God" is actually a demon come to fool them. Which to me seems paradoxical and basically means they're so stubborn that even if it really is God, they'd never believe it.
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The problem would be Galatians 1:8, where Peter states: "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed."

Compounding that with the hypothetical sounding really familiar to the myth of the foundation of Islam (supposedly Archangel Gabriel going to an illiterate Mohammed at night and telling him to write down things antithetical to the Gospels and the Bible), it'd be hard for me to believe that was God coming down and not the Antichrist.
 
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The problem would be Galatians 1:8, where Peter states: "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed."

Compounding that with the hypothetical sounding really familiar to the myth of the foundation of Islam (supposedly Archangel Gabriel going to an illiterate Mohammed at night and telling him to write down things antithetical to the Gospels and the Bible), it'd be hard for me to believe that was God coming down and not the Antichrist.
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But then again, that's assuming that God would say something antithetical towards the gospel, which is that any man or woman can come unto Him and be saved by baptism and accepting His Son as the only Lord and Savior.

I'd assume that with the million different Bible translations, it wouldn't be unreasonable for Him to fix what was lost. Or at least say which Bible is the "right one" in His eyes.
 
I would just tell him to say hello to grandma.

And if I need to argue with him to be sent to magical germany to fire nuke spells at the allies or if that's not needed.

And ask why jews of all people. Thst's like being able to have any dog and you get the shitbull.
 
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