Posted: Aug 28, 2017 7:47 am
Zadocfish2 wrote:Eh... still, it's hard to deny these coincidences being connected somehow.
It isn't. They are not connected. That was pretty easy. It is, apparently, hard for you, but then you already think this God exists and wants you back in the fold. In other words, you already give anything God related a massive significance that it doesn't have for me.
Like, it would be easier for me if I WASN'T a Christian, to the extant that a lot of this is me trying to find reasons to disbelieve that these things have significance.
Well, it would definitely be easier for you if you were not already carrying a huge bias around, namely that a creator God who is trying to communicate with you exists, yes. That's the point. You already hold that belief, you've already been won over extensively to the whole idea. If you hadn't, you wouldn't be engaged in these teenage ouija type games in the first place. Take me. I have spent zero time flicking through verses looking for coincidences, therefore no coincidences of this kind have happened to me. I did think about a client I haven't seen since 2014 the other day though, and then she rang to make an appointment. If I was you, I might think that God was trying to tell me something. However I'm not you, so it's just one of those things that happens with regularity, mixed in with all the other millions upon billions of things that happen.
But what happens is, whenever I'm feeling the most conflicted, I'll try the random verse thing and, three tries in, I'll find the same verse I quoted to myself a bit earlier, or find that a verse of the day is the same as one of the randoms I looked at. Like, think about how crazy unlikely it is for those things to happen on the same day, in the same, like, four hours.
Sorry, I have no concept of it being 'crazy unlikely'. Having just re-read your OP, it seems to me that you have a bit of a habit of over-stating the unlikeliness of something happening, and also the significance. Like where you seem blown away that something comes up that is from a chapter previous to the one you read earlier. What's 'astronomical' about that? It's not even the same chapter.
These vod things have a limited selection of verses, but the selection is easily well into the hundreds. This "verses lining up" thing has happened multiple times, often in the same day. Things that statistically improbable just cannot happen that reliably without a reason. I think it's more absurd to think of it as mere coincidence, don't you?
No. Do you live in the world? Statistically improbable things happen. There's a reason why they're not called 'statistically impossible'. For give me, but a far more feasible explanation is that you that you are embellishing the truth, either unwittingly or on purpose.