BTW, I'm not hostile toward God. He and I get along in a fairly reasonable fashion. I am hostile to folks who claim to talk for Him. There is a difference, but I don't figure you'll ever understand it, critical thinking not being one of your strong suits.
Uh huh.
I quoted two bible verses. Those are the words of God--and yet you don't want to look at them or digest them. You just reach into the same old tired bag of tricks and make the ad hominem charge that anyone who believes in God's word is trying to be God Himself, yet you claim to speak on your own authority, as your own authority, with no biblical reference.
I don't figure you'll ever understand it, critical thinking not being one of your strong suits.
Ah yes--more ad hominem attacks (Latin for "attack the man"). If you were such a "critical thinker" yourself, you would assemble an argument to refute the faith of Christians first. Claiming to be one is nice defense, but Christ said a tree is known by its fruit.
Finally, we can pray and talk to this God. And He talks to us. I am not worthy of this privilege, but He grants it.
With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith. We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 1: 11-12