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In this exchange,

(1)
Q. Does the god of whom you speak communicate?
A. Yes
Challenge: Prove it with evidence (source, object, general method)

(2) and if so,
Q, does he communicate to you?
A. yes
Challenge: Prove it with evidence not involving belief

(3) and if so,
Q. how does he communicate to you?
A. don’t know how to explain, ...
Observation: Does not validate the previous answers
Explanation: ... maybe self-evidence? (answering a question with another question is not an answer)
My challenge to you: possible, but give an(some) example(s)
Your Q.: How does it work with you?
My A.: God is not silent to me.
By faith, He speaks to my mind and spirit (a) through His creation, (b) through written words of His detailed Bible giving His thoughts, (c) through spoken words of other disciples who interpret His Word and His words using a literal-historical-grammatical hermeneutic, (d) by observed circumstances which illustrate the truths of His Word, and (e) by the outworking of decisions based on Scriptural and/or non-verbal prescience/intuition which proves being moved by the Holy Ghost to correctly respond to His promptings.

(4) and if that is so,
Q.: does he communicate truth?
A.: (again, no answer)
Your Q.: without using the bible as a reference, how would this be determined and would you believe it?
A: I cannot answer this question be cause it is (a) too ambiguous and (b) does not identify what "this" is, and what "to be determined" is.

I have tried to cast the interplay between yourself and myself in the Q & A form, to make the communicate more definite. The reason is that in reviewing your previous comments in this thread, the responders have not been able to provoke a logical sequence of reasoning with you. I have tried to respond to your questions with straightforward answers, then with questions that ought to evoke responses that answer your questions. Neither mode has worked. In saying this, I am not criticizing, just making an observation. For this to continue, you need to give some straight stepwise reasonableanswers. Otherwise, we would just be playing a hide-and-seek game, for which I simply do not want to continue, which would be unprofitable, wasting your time and mine.

Sorry --