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

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Look, man. Everybody makes mistakes. You picked unwashed hobos from the desert to carry your message and felt like fucking with them, I can't blame you.
Now let's crack open some Holy Spirits®.
Alternatively I'd just say don't care, didn't ask.
 
Metallic Blood said:
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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Funny thing, I was just watching (of all things) a video about Five Nights at Freddy's that reminded me of this topic.

Near the end of that video, the dude says something I found interesting: he mentions a time FNAF's creator tried to give "hints" to theorists, but since it was the series creator speaking, everyone took all his hints as being bigger and more significant than they may have actually been, and thus Scott has never interacted with the theory community again.

You're falling into almost exactly the behavior that video described... just with, you know, The Creator instead of just a creator. You're immediately assuming that there's this wide importance and God wants you to go on this quest, when that's honestly kind of a leap of logic.

I now find myself wondering if this is exactly why God prefers indirect communications rather than outright talking to people. Just look at people in this very thread who are saying things like "why are Jews your chosen people?" (when did God ever say that? How do we know that's not something the Jews made up?)
 
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"Samson and Delilah didn't really happen, it was actually a moral fable about trust and emasculation."

"Okay."
 
skykiii said:
Funny thing, I was just watching (of all things) a video about Five Nights at Freddy's that reminded me of this topic.

Near the end of that video, the dude says something I found interesting: he mentions a time FNAF's creator tried to give "hints" to theorists, but since it was the series creator speaking, everyone took all his hints as being bigger and more significant than they may have actually been, and thus Scott has never interacted with the theory community again.

You're falling into almost exactly the behavior that video described... just with, you know, The Creator instead of just a creator. You're immediately assuming that there's this wide importance and God wants you to go on this quest, when that's honestly kind of a leap of logic.

I now find myself wondering if this is exactly why God prefers indirect communications rather than outright talking to people. Just look at people in this very thread who are saying things like "why are Jews your chosen people?" (when did God ever say that? How do we know that's not something the Jews made up?)
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It might be an extreme act I suppose, but I don't think it's unreasonable considering what I believe its God's true character:

-That He's a omnipotent being who says that we're His ultimate creation and treat us as His actual children
-That He's full of truth and justice, whos main desire is to bring Salvation to mankind, but only will do so if they follow His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ.
-That His word is as clear as day, or at least, it's clear when spoken directly from Him.

And with this in mind, my idea of how the conversation would go would easily turn up into something grand, because why would He say that something is wrong in the Bible and not share with the world? Is it because most people aren't prepared for it? Or is that I'm just that special and this knowledge would only benefit me?

Then again, I assume if God would correct His word, I also would assume that He would explicitly order me to share with His other children. I wouldn't do it without Him telling me first of course, but I confess that I would find it very odd if He just gave me this information, and... yeah that's it I guess.

There's a lot of speculation going on, but hey, that's what I believe what would happen.

Also I agree on why God is indirect with hia communication most of the time. I'd say it's less about people making things grandier than it is (although that's one of the reasons) and more how people naturally fall into pride and use this opportunity to glorify themselves rather than God: "God spoke directly to me, therefore you must do what I say."
 
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i dont wanna buddha to visit me and destroy me with his "mmmmmm very unwise" each time i say anything
 
Other than using a Ouija board, there are ways you could contact this god and ask. There's a divinatory writing technique called Fuji in China where you get in contact with ancient familial spirits or "God." The process is similar to handling a Ouija board but with two mediums helping you write it out. In the West, this is called automatic writing, in which you're basically possessed by a spirit who dictates the words you write down. There's a belief that Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon by using automatic writing.
 
Neat! So hey I don't wanna impose, but do you think you can redirect all your natural disasters from the rest of the world to India for a while?


Arthur_Schopenhauer said:
Any other answer is acceptable
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If he shows up as a blonde hair blue-eyed white man the answer is Mormonism.
 
Picnic_Boy said:
"Samson and Delilah didn't really happen, it was actually a moral fable about trust and emasculation."

"Okay."
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I find it funny that people focus exclusively on the "Delilah" part of the Samson story. To use an autistic comparison, its sort of like how Batman fans over-focus on the dead parents or how Spider-Man fans focus on the death of Gwen Stacy, as if nothing else happened in any of these people's lives.

Shaka When the Walls Fell. Great, now I'm dropping references to a Star Trek TNG episode I bet nobody but me remembers...

Anyway, the Samson story is about far more than just "trust and emasculation." Samson was pretty much the ultimate example of a guy who let power go to his head.

As a matter of fact I find the entire book of Judges (and indeed a lot of early books of the Bible) are inherently misunderstood. In particular, one thing I rarely ever see religious types notice or highlight is that they're implicitly a criticism of God's own followers--Judges is almost entirely "God's people fucked up and it led to them being conquered, then a Judge came along and saved them, but then either they died and the people fucked up, or else the Judge themselves fucked up and got delivered into the enemy's hands."

This is gonna be an unpopular take on KF but I find myself wondering if this could be applied to the modern day. I find myself remembering a scene from The Seven Samurai where one of the "samurai" (who is actually a peasant who lied about his samurai status) goes into a rant where he says "yeah, the peasants behave badly, but they do that because of you!" There might be a similar criticism to be made about religious institutions.

Just saying, think of anything you hate about today... now question: "did this happen specifically to punish you?"

Though another thought is some times these things happen to give people exactly what they wanted--so many of us want an obviously bad and wrong enemy to fight, and to many, it looks like the modern world gave them that.
 
I'd try to get him to prove he's not the CIA pretending to be god, he'd surely understand I think.

I mean the bibles been through a number of revisions and it was made BY people not him so like if he had some important shit to tell me that was wrong in there if he wasn't one of them psyop feds it's probably important.
 
you mean a whale isn't a fish?

You can be a believer, without thinking every tale told in the bible actually happened, it's the lesson you learn from it that's important.
 
Using history and archeology, we already know certain parts of the Old Testament are irrefutably wrong. The Jews were never enslaved to build pyramids.

It's no surprise the same people who killed our Savior also perverted Holy Scripture. From as far back as the proto-Orthodox days, our religious leaders warned us of the danger, but 2000 years later, we are still dealing with them.
 
Otterly said:
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 that was my first thought. Am I sure this is not a demon?
Yamaha YM2612 said:
God wouldn't say that.

I would dismiss it as a demon and move on. Only demons try to say God is wrong
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This isn't saying that God is wrong, it's saying that there was a mistranslation or something. I don't think it really matters if it's a small thing.

Anyway I'd probably be extremely cautious and skeptical at first. If I came to believe it was God, I'd just ask what He wants me to do and also if I can have a super liver so I can drink a shit ton and not have it affect my health. Also a lot of money. I know He isn't a genie but it can't hurt to ask, right?
 
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Otis Mallebrok said:
My Lord in heaven, why did you create so many redditors? WHY??
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Unforseen consequences. That and he promised not to flood the Earth again so his hands are kind of tied there. Perhaps the redditors are considered a suitable replacement for the floodwaters to punish this gay Earth.
Daddy's Little Kitten said:
I don't know. I've never read the Bible. How would I know if something's wrong?
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Play it by ear, act on instinct.
 
If God appeared to me, I'd honestly just like to chill out with the guy
 
Justice Tony said:
This isn't saying that God is wrong, it's saying that there was a mistranslation or something. I don't think it really matters if it's a small thing.
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There are no mistranslations

Since the bible is the infallible word, to challenge it is to challenge him
 
Yamaha YM2612 said:
There are no mistranslations

Since the bible is the infallible word, to challenge it is to challenge him
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So I can translate the Bible into Vietnamese, a language I do not know, and there would be no errors because it's infallible? Interesting.
 
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