Is the traditional theist one who resorts to gross conciliation in matters of God to hide his/ her inability to define this phenomenon?
AEIOU: I think you are right when you think the theist is naive but has a productive attitude when the atheist's attitude is otherwise.
Anonymous
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Compare a theist in relationship to God to a child in relationship to parent.
The child is aware that there is a bond between child and parent and it actively is part of it, but it is not fully aware of the nature of this relationship.
Likewise, a theist is aware that there is a bond between "I Am" and Universe and its consciousness is active part of it, but it is not fully aware of the nature of this relationship.
In the psychological sense, there is not true division between theist and atheist. The division is of social nature, like being on a higher cognitive level (superego). People do may have psychological traits which lean toward being more spacially or more socially oriented...
The problem with atheism is that, through its own hollowness, it bashes what the theist finds irrational to define in atheist terms...
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The theist is not naive. The theist is just closer to Mother Nature. For example, you can not say that a North American Indian is naive compared to someone today. They were as wise as we are today. We are more complex, but more alienated from the Source.
Anonymous
Exodus 20:8-11.
Jesus is God - John 8:24; 8:56-59 (see Exodus 3:14); John 10:30-33
2.Jesus is called God - John 1:1,14; 20:28; Col. 2:9; Titus 2:13; Heb. 1:8
3.Jesus is the image of the invisible God - Heb. 1:3
4.Jesus abides forever - Heb. 7:24
5.Jesus created all things - John 1:1-3; Col. 1:15-17
6.Jesus is before all things - John 1:1-3; Col. 1:17;
7.Jesus is eternal - John 1:1,14; 8:58; Micah 5:1-2
8.Jesus is honored the same as the Father - John 5:23
9.Jesus is prayed to - Acts 7:55-60; 1 Cor. 1:2 with Psalm 116:4; (John 14:14)
10.Jesus is worshipped - Matt. 2:2,11; 14:33; John 9:35-38; Heb. 1:6
11.Jesus is omnipresent - Matt. 18:20; 28:20
12.Jesus is with us always - Matt. 28:20
13.Jesus is our only mediator between God and ourselves - 1 Tim. 2:5
14.Jesus is the guarantee of a better covenant - Heb. 7:22; 8:6
15.Jesus said, "I AM the Bread of Life" - John 6:35,41,48,51
16.Jesus said, "I AM the Door" - John 10:7,9
17.Jesus said, "I AM the Good Shepherd" - John 10:11,14
18.Jesus said, "I AM the Way the Truth and The Life" - John 14:6
19.Jesus said, "I AM the Light of the world" - John 8:12; 9:5; 12:46; Luke 2:32
20.Jesus said, "I AM the True Vine" - John 15:1,5
21.Jesus said, "I AM the Resurrection and the Life" - John 11:25
22.Jesus said, "I AM the First and the Last" - Rev. 1:17; 2:8; 22:13
23.Jesus always lives to make intercession for us - Heb. 7:25
24.Jesus cleanses from sin - 1 John 1:9
25.Jesus cleanses us from our sins by His blood - Rev. 1:5; Rom. 5:9
26.Jesus forgives sins - Matt. 9:1-7; Luke 5:20; 7:48
27.Jesus saves forever - Matt. 18:11; John 10:28; Heb. 7:25
28.Jesus discloses Himself to us - John 14:21
29.Jesus draws all men to Himself - John 12:32
30.Jesus gives eternal life - John 10:28; 5:40