How would I know it was god?

@ AxeElf, If He brought Santa Claus, riding a unicorn, who in turn is feeding his pet dragon the Easter bunny, whilst snap chatting with the tooth fairy...

I would take another drink of absynth, eat some more peyote, then calmly wait for the next hallucination.

I have been waiting for the burning bush for twenty + years. I think Moses was an Agnostic.

There's no proof still ?
Makes no sense.

You mean "that he did exist"? That's a difficult question. I would still be skeptical whether it's hallucination or not. It will more convincing if God appears to a group and the probability of everyone in the group hallucinating at the same time is close to zero

Which is quicker, to Brooklyn or by bus?

No, I would do exactly what I would do in the face of a zombie apocalypse. ie. Go to bed till the drugs I had taken had worn off.

So something, someone, some mist, a potato.... comes up to me says "I'm not God." Well my thoughts would be good for you cus being a God sounds like a lot of work.

Oxymoron ?

I see a paradox there.

Willing to believe anything, given appropriate evidence.
The more extraordinary the claim, the more extraordinary the evidence required.

So, if God appears before me, that would be good proof he exists. If he said he did not exist, I would ask him to clarify. Does he mean he didn't a year, month or minute ago? or that once he vanishes he won't?
Happy to accept his word that once he vanishes he doesn't exist. But would seem a stupid thing to do.

Would ask why, if it is important that we believe, and He made us, why not just make us to inherently believe? Or simply have His holy book appear in the hand of anyone who asks, in their own language, and make every human naturally literate.
Or have us all speak the one language.
And why, when western people reached the Americas and Africa and Asia, didn't they find the people there already had the true religion and copies of the holy book? Why only give it to one tiny group in one part of the universe?

In the book Illusions by Richard Bach, he subtitles it as the "adventures of a reluctant Messiah"
the messiah received a word or command from god. The messiah approached the people and asked what they would do if god gave them a commandment, They all would of course follow god and with that the Messiah said he quits. God told him to be happy and that was the only commandment. Any one can be their own god if they are happy

I actually told one of those people that knocked on my door to tell me about god's love for me that if god wants me to believe that he exists, he has to appear to me and tell me himself because I do not want to hear it secondhand from a messenger who has never met him.

I would have to follow my gut on that one, but not until it appeared at my door. When I was a kid I thought that God looked like George Washington.

As Scatman Crothers once said "you just put some shit on my mind."

Is this apparition saying "I do not exist" or "God does not exist"?

no, I wouldn't.

If God was standing in front of me telling me that he doesn't exist then, wouldn't that make God a liar? Isn't Satan supposed to be the liar?

So if someone who might not exist tells me he doesn't exist...

That was a quick ride on a mental moebius strip.

Who?

Yep, it agrees with my belief system, so I would be comfortable with it and God wouldn't lie, especially about something like that.

It could not happen