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Originally Posted by awareness
Ya know ABinF I honestly can't answer that question.
Cuz from the time my mother could take me out of the house she took me to her Southern Baptist church every time the doors were open.
And that's how I came to know God. It was forced upon me.
So I don't think I can calculate the answer to your question. I was born into the Bible. It's too blurry to figure out.
But it's not the way I know God in my daily life. I don't go around on a daily basis trying to mimic Bible characters, or conform to Bible verses. I relate with God directly.
Because God still speaks without the Bible, just as in old.
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I really don't know if you're pretending not to understand the question or if you genuinely don't understand it!
My question was not about YOU specifically, not about how would you
have come to know God. It was about how, if there were no Bible, would you or ANYONE ELSE know who God was. Anyone else includes the Southern Baptist preacher, choir, minister, brothers and sisters, kids hanging round the door, etc.
My point is, and I suspect you know this, that without the Bible no one today could know God. Not only that, but it is the way He has chosen to reveal Himself to us. We do not have an oral tradition or paintings or video or anything else to go by as far as a source is concerned. We have what we have because of the sovereignty of God.
Of course someone could tell us about God, and we could believe, but without the Bible our believe would be quickly subject to our own whims. It would have nothing to ground it.