How do you describe a sunset to a blind man?

Don't be ridiculous. Storytellers have been describing what they imagined in their heads quite intelligently for thousands of years. If people don't believe the fault lies in the story not with the listener or the story teller.

I once had a blind boss. He had lost his sight at the age of 3 months and therefore could not have any clear idea of the appearance of colour. Yet when I asked him if colours meant anything to him he told me that they did. He connected them with other sensual experiences which he knew were related to particular colours.

Another point we must recognise is that not every unsaved person is unacquainted with the character of God. Have you ever, for example, tried to discuss such spiritual matters with a pious Jew? Such a person would have a very good grasp of the character of the Lord, but simply be unable to accept the identity of Jesus as the Messiah.

Otherwise I think that yours is a good analogy.

I am an atheist but yet, by your definition of ''saved'', I should qualify infinitely for falling within your category of people who understand "the scriptural truths describing the character of God" because I do understand and comprehend completely and intimately, the horrendous character of the God which the Bible describes. I have absolutely no problem understanding the exact nature and character of the God of the Bible, having been brought up for years in a pious Roman Catholic home and having been educated by the Jesuits.

It is my in-depth understanding of the exact nature and character of the God described within the Bible which makes it impossible for me to accept Him as a Loving God who should be regarded as real. The very descriptions in the Bible, of God instructing his followers the Chosen People to slaughter the human babies of their human enemies in front of their parents, all humans supposedly created and supposedly also loved by Him, indicates the character and nature of a Monster, who should be rejected for being the opposite of good.

Only immoral humans blinded by greed to enter Heaven at any cost, would turn a blind eye to God's immorality in the Bible and continue to regard Him as a Good, Loving and Real entity, on the off chance Heaven exists and this God had the power to block their entry for calling him a monster. It is the Believer who is blind and who fails to comprehend his own immorality when he accepts the deeds of this God as worthy of worship.

Even a blind man can feel the heat differentials between the morning, midday and setting sun, and can understand an attempt to describe these to him in terms of a rising and setting sun, and come to comprehend the dying warmth of the setting sun on his face when he faces west, as the meaning of a sunset. A blind man knows the heat of the sun is real and believes that a source of such heat does actually exist, and believes the name given to it is the sun, and has little problem understanding the ball of the sun dropping below the level of a ball-like Earth rotating. A blind man relates to these concepts when he holds a ball in his hand and feels what ''round' means.

There is no evidence that any Gods exist, much less the especially brutal God of the Bible. It is the Believer who finds it difficult to understand that what he thinks is real is an illusion, and it is infinitely more difficult to describe to and convince a Believer of the existence of this illusion than to describe and get through to a blind man the colours of the sunset.

The blind understand the sunset much more quickly and easier than Believers understand their own delusions.

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With regards to the quotation from 1 Corinthians 2:14 (But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.), this is synonymous with the fable The Emperor's New Clothes,. Believers are like the fearful subjects of the king who is walking around stark naked claiming he is wearing new clothes, which only smart people can see. For fear of being called stupid all the adults claim to see the clothes the king is wearing despite the clear evidence of his pathetic nakedness, and no one dares to call out the truth for fear he punish them. Only a child without any concept of such fear shouts out loudly that the king is naked.

Believers who quote this verse always remind me of the sycophantic subjects of the king, seeing the new clothes on his naked body, clothes, which just like the God of the Bible, never existed. Atheists have no fear of punishment and denial of Heaven by this God so we see clearly the illusion and denounce it for the fraud it is, being perpetrated as it is upon the morally weak.

You can describe it any way you want. The blind man will not know any better. Same with god. Only, with the sunset, you have reality. With god, you only have preconceptions, other peoples.

Try do describe it with the feeling sounds create, i think that's the closest you will get explaining a sunset.

BEAUTIFUL scripture. Thank U.

We can start by describing our Lord to them. His ways, his justice, his love, compassion, understanding, his power that operates on behalf of believers.Our living testamony.

It is in the hands of Jesus to open the eyes of the blind. It is a heart condition that only God can read.

We can pray for them being mindful of why they are unable to percieve truth, who is behind it all.And what unbelievers are up against.Absent Jesus they are prey for the wicked one.

It use to frustrate me not being able to help them understand but then I relized that it is not in my hands to open the eyes of the blind, it is not for me to call them, my position is to tell them. What people choose to do with the information is as God plans for them. I planted Appolos watered, but it is God that makes things grow.

in Christ

If a blind man asks a hundred sighted people what color is the sunset, they will get a hundred similar answers. If a nonbeliever asks a hundred believers what color is God, they will get a hundred different answers. Why is that, I ask?

The sundown is nearly an impressive exhilaration and rest after a protracted day and its colorings provides you with the warmth temperature to convenience you to exhale in a calmly temper to recuperate energies for the next day; it relatively is the Anticipation for the break of day that with the image voltaic will raise you as much as initiate a clean day of existence!

My, aren't you superior? How kind of you to come down off your pedestal to tell us how inferior we are.

Paul knew the way to keep people in his club was to make them feel like they were better than everyone else. Churches today are still using the same techniques.

Trying to explain the truth to someone who just can't see it is frustrating, so I just laugh at the stupidity of it all.