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You missed the point of the quote totally...your rebuttal seems aimed in the wrong direction? (but i must answer your question. YES!! And it's going well. when the wife talks to me in an unacceptable manner...i enable my selective hearing. When an email comes to me in an unacceptable form, ie junk mail, i ignore it. when a phone call comes from an unacceptable source or at an unacceptable time, i do ignore it. )
Back on topic .... Read this quote :
For example, if God revealed something to me, that would be a divine revelation to me. If I then told someone else what God told me it would be mere hearsay to the person I tell. If that person believed what I said, they would not be putting their trust in God, but in me, believing what I told them was actually true.
Revealed Religion: An organized system of belief in and worship of God based on the belief that God communicated/communicates with certain individual founders/members of the particular revealed religion. As mentioned above, by believing in any of the revealed religions a believer is not putting their trust in God, but in the person/people making the claim of receiving the divine revelation.
How can you argue with that ??
No, you missed
my point. What you are saying is that unless revelation comes to you in a way you deem as acceptable, i.e. direct and only direct, the revelation is invalid, unimportant and can be ignored.
The Bible says " In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son.." Hebrews 1:1
Your response is "Sorry God, you didn't talk to me direct so you wasted your time."
Well, I don't see anywhere, even by Deist standards, where God has said how he will hand out revelation nor any documentation that the Deists have been appointed the divine revelation communication standards committee.
But suppose he followed your premise of direct only, how many of the world would give him a Scrooge-like welcome?
"I don't believe in you!" said Scrooge.
"Why do you doubt your senses?"
"I've never seen a spirit before. Why should I see one now? You could easily be an undigested bit of beef, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato." Scrooge chuckled. "I warrant there's more of gravy than grave about you!"
From the parable of Lazarus:
"Abraham replied, "They have Moses and the prophets, let them listen to them."
'No father Abraham," he said, "but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent."
He said to him, "If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead." Luke 16:29-31