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What does it mean to know Jesus?

Clever. But seriously, how does one "know" Jesus?

What qualifies as knowing Jesus? Do you know his favorite food?

Knowing about and actually knowing someone are two different things.

If that is the case, you can no longer claim him to be unknowable, only selectively knowable.

The problem with God being wholly other and as the Bible says, unfathomable, how is it that you can claim to know anything about him? You're basically saying you know something that can't be known which is a contradiction.

Different religions and faiths assign different meanings to God. That's my point. You aren't proving your idea of God, you are just arguing that some power theoretically exists. While we're on the topic of love, how do you define it? Don't give me the "God is love" thing, that isn't a...

There have been and still are many different views of the attributes of God. Even if your "argument" is correct, it only proves some formless power and not the attributes and personality of your God.

Atheism is the disbelief in any gods. I don't believe in gods so that makes me an atheist. Being anti-christian is a completely different thing. I don't find loving others disagreeable, I find it disagreeable that I have to believe in a mythical being in order to have love considered legitimate.

First, in order for us to say that something is "designed" or appears to be designed in some way, in your example a painting, we must compare it to things that occur in nature. We then say "this is clearly not created by nature alone, there must be a painter." However, you cannot assert that...

If logic and reason cannot be applied to the "unknowable" God, how is it you claim to know anything about him at all? Your guess is as good as saying "it was magic."

If God does not change, how did he create the universe? To create means something goes from non-existence to existence. Creation is an act of God. Act implies God decided to do something. If he cannot change, how can he go from not creating to creating? Either he must always be creating or...

Again, you are taking the idea of God and rationalizing new findings. Even if I grant your premise that God is the cause of the universe, that doesn't prove the Christian God, that the god is personal, that the Bible has anything to do with it. All it would prove is that some being or force...

The problem is that you are rationalizing it to fit with your idea of God. Scientists aren't making claims like that, they are simply observing what is actually happening. I pointed it out because it goes against the claim you have made that "something cannot come from nothing," because it...

I have heard the argument that God is necessarily outside of time. Is this true? If we define "time" as a measurement of change (so that we can say something is in the past, is presently happening, or will happen), then God cannot be outside of time. If God was outside of time, he would not be...

Except these were actually observed to happen and are capable of being measured and are accepted science. And you are correct in saying I am making an educated guess. I didn't say it was demonstrably true beyond doubt, I said it was more likely to be true. The point I'm trying to make is that...

Science says that for what we have been able to observe, mostly on Earth, we can surmise that effect follows cause. However, the universe being everything in existence, we can't know all of it. Quantum mechanics has shown that things can come in and out of existence with no pattern of...

I didn't say nothing created existence, I said that existence has always been—so it doesn't need a cause because it wasn't "created." Saying that "god did it" doesn't mean you've answered the problem, it means you've asserted an answer that equates to nothing more than saying "it was magic"...

No, that makes the universe the uncaused cause. There is no need for a god. The source of all "creation," or rather, the source of all causal interaction in the universe, is existence. Existence is the necessary cause of all other causes. Nothing "causes" existence because existence has always...

Where did it say he was a soldier or fighting for his country? He refused to convert to Islam and was boiled to death.