And who does that besides atheists?
Christians become temporary functional atheists when a doctrine becomes bigger than the thing it is trying to talk about.
[Christians become temporary functional atheists when a doctrine becomes bigger than the thing it is trying to talk about.]
And I would say that is a danger that even I enter when I start to verge into “How clever this is!” rather than “Here’s what the Spirit put on my heart through the Bible and corroborated through experience.”
FR is a BIG temptation to vanity. BIG BIG BIG. In fact that makes a lot of it downright vapid. But occasionally meaningful spiritual exchanges take place.
Please don't drag us into this nonsense argument. The reason there are so many denominational versions of the same god is that you each create one that believes exactly as you do. Then you pit your gods against each other in these mindless squabbles. That's the self worship.