No, your approach comes across as accusation to anyone who claims to have approached God and not had the experience the Bible suggests they will.
Accusations....
I continue to demonstrate my experience.
Which according to you is inexperience.
When it comes to personal experience all you can do is trust the person relating their experience.
Which is why I keep asking you questions, to better detail what happened.
So far you have described your inexperience. I.e., your lack of connecting with Jesus.
If I said I tried chocolate ice-cream and I didn't like it, would you tell me I was wrong, because millions of others have tried it and they liked it?
And that appears to be the key distinction between us.
I'm not talking about chocolate ice cream.
This is not about liking or disliking something.
This is entirely about meeting Jesus and God.
You've told me that you never actually met Jesus. So, it's pretty clear that liking or disliking the flavors of foods isn't the same.
You have several decades of experience with something. Can you prove that the source of that experience was Jesus?
It matches the biblical narrative.
No, you continue to try to invalidate my experience.
That's just it....you keep saying that you had no experience. So I'm validating that you never actually met him, which shows that you never actually did what Jesus said.
Ah. The no true Scotsman fallacy. Nice.
Which is rather curious, because you are clearly stating that since you never actually met Jesus, nobody else could ever have met him either.
Sounds like you're the one who keeps using the no true scotsman fallacy.
I do believe your cancer experience. I just don't see it as proof of divine intervention.
That's a you thing.
Every single doctor I have has spent years saying that I'm a miracle.
Miracles, by their very definition are the result of that which is beyond our ability to understand.
No, that's what you are saying.
I simply related my knowledge and experience.
Remember, your experience is the lack of experience.
I am paying attention. All I hear are claims and supposition. I'm not hearing anything to substantiate either.
And all I hear is that you never actually met Jesus and aren't actually interested in knowing God.
So, how do you think this is going to go?
Apparently me and countless others if our efforts are to be judged solely by results.
The entire human race will experience a judgment.
Following Jesus is a life of results.
We believe him and he works in and through our lives.
Further demonstrating that you lack knowledge of the biblical definition of following Jesus.
And innumerable people lay claim to the power of the law of attraction or crystals or any number of things.
Do you believe in those too? If not, why?
Experience with Jesus.
The bible is really clear about astrology, necromancy, mediums, psychics, etc....
So no. I do not engage in such activities.
Looking at the bible, it seems pretty clear that those things are real. But they are not based on the truth. They're built on lies, and deception.
And yet I have been many times.
Which raises the question of whether you were coming to Jesus or just looking for an emotional experience.
YHVH says in Jeremiah 29 that if we seek him with a whole heart we will find him.
The thing that makes me think that you didn't seek him with a whole heart is that you didn't engage in following Jesus.
According to your own description, you engaged in a religious construct. Something that you should be asking yourself. We're instructed in Corinthians that we should examine ourselves to see if we're actually in the faith or not.
2Co 13:5 WEB Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
Based on your own description, it appears that you did examine yourself and decided that you are not in the faith. So, I'm working from that perspective.
No, in this case it's the dictionary.
I'm working from the biblical definition of truth.
The 1828 Webster's Dictionary was developed by a bible believer.
TRUTH, n.
1. Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be. The truth of history constitutes its whole value. We rely on the truth of the scriptural prophecies.
My mouth shall speak truth. Prov.8.
Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth. John. 17.
2. True state of facts or things. The duty of a court of justice is to discover the truth. Witnesses are sworn to declare the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
3. Conformity of words to thoughts, which is called moral truth.
Shall truth fail to keep her word?
4. Veracity; purity from falsehood; practice of speaking truth; habitual disposition to speak truth; as when we say, a man is a man of truth.
5. Correct opinion.
6. Fidelity; constancy.
The thoughts of past pleasure and truth.
7. Honesty; virtue.
It must appear
That malice bears down truth.
8. Exactness; conformity to rule.
Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the iron work. [Not in use.]
9. Real fact of just principle; real state of things. There are innumerable truths with which we are not acquainted.
10. Sincerity.
God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship in spirit and in truth. John 4.
11. The truth of God, is his veracity and faithfulness. Ps.71.
Or his revealed will.
I have walked in thy truth. Ps.26.
12. Jesus Christ is called the truth. John 14.
13. It is sometimes used by way of concession.
She said, truth, Lord; yet the dogs eat of the crums-- Matt 15.
That is, it is a truth; what you have said, I admit to be true.
In truth, in reality; in fact.
Of a truth, in reality; certainly.
To do truth, is to practice what God commands. John 3.
A distinction without a difference.
Not to you. Yet you've made it clear that you never actually met Jesus.
So of course you see no difference.