Athena's just way too serious. Artemis is cool, but she's not great on letting me hunt a stump. Course, when she asked my name, I probably could have found a better joke than to say "Actaeon...."
Pretty sure Lucifer is not the angel in Job or actually an angel at all. The angel of God in that particular book would be Sataniel Accuser of God or some such. An angel whose mission it is to basically go out and mess with good people and test them. People need tests evidently. Lucifer is only referenced in the Bible once as far as I can tell and it is actually in reference to King Herod I believe when some seer asks him if he thought he was the morning star too great to fall from power. Being a pagan and not Christian or Jewish at all I really couldn't care less but it is an interesting example of the demonization of a pretty popular Roman diety and the total misrepresentation of an unrelated passage so as to support this hoax. The epic battle of Good VS Evil is pretty damn contradictory to a supreme deity, so much so that it has already been mentioned more than once in this small thread. Good and Evil are basically subjective judgements based on what you would find pleasant and what you would find unpleasant and to me that is far from the realm of divine Truth.
Have you figured out yet what would convince you that He was actually trying to explain it to you? Kind of like asking for the ultimate answer without knowing what the ultimate question even is -- if you get the answer, how are you even gonna understand it? What if he already explained it all and you mistook it for a really good movie? I think you need to think this through a little more first.
You make a great point. In this day and age, it's hard to tell what's not some big magic trick by a government or someone else. It's hard to differentiate illusion from reality. What would convince me is something publicly verifiable (world-wide) and something I saw with my own eyes. Although, I'm sure if I had a one-on-one, I might be convinced but I doubt I'd be able to talk about it with anyone and not get "the look." What makes you think it's too difficult to understand? What if all skittles were blue? The only way to find out is to look at all of them, which is possible, but highly difficult. This is similar in that it's no small feat but it doesn't seem like it's outside the realm of possibility.
That was my main point -- that if faced with something so amazing, you have to make a choice of either deciding you were hallucinating or deciding it was G-d. I guess another rationalization would be to decide it was an alien, or a ghost. So basically wouldn't you only be able to believe it was G-d if you already believed that G-d is more likely to exist then any of the other things (including insanity)? I was trying to make my comment playful and not get too serious though because I understand and can relate to alot of those points of view, so I don't believe that G-d is likely to prove Herself to non-believers until maybe when they no longer have a body and can see the world differently (but nobody can prove that will happen) Hmm, thinking about what I just said, I guess the only way for a non-believer to find out for sure is to die and see things from G-d's point of view, but please don't do that. The world needs Atheists to keep Theists honest.
Hey, weird-guy-that-leaves-bad-reputation-points-for-no-reason, what's the prob bob? Impeach means to put on trial, not to remove. I want to see God, not send him anywhere. Why, o why, weird-guy ? WHY? :]