Personal relationships with deities

[jenny1972]

yes i will share it with you so you can have a good laugh about it and someday when it happens to you and everyone is laughing at you maybe youll remember me and wont feel so alone

I too appreciate the candor, the willingness to admit that you have no proof and aren't here to convince folks.  But I doubt that an experience of actually hearing god's voice would be something that would make someone feel alone.  Every American city has churches on every corner with people that say they have heard god's voice.  All you have to do to find people with that same delusion is walk into a church.
      And that "when it happens to you" is a pretty questionable statement.  Most of us here are ex-christians.  Many were VERY devout indeed.  Many share my experience of praying intensely for decades, and having no such experience - ever.  I was put down and mocked when I admitted that I never heard a response to my prayers, by people who pridefully claimed that they heard it daily.  I tend to believe they were all lying, in "gods house", about hearing "god's voice", just to make themselves feel superior.
      We can already, through the use of machines, "watch" the human brain think, and respond to stimuli.  The day is coming soon when it will be easy to prove whether a "response from god" is emanating from an outside source or not.  And then I will have my evidence.  Until then, this is one of the few "beliefs" that I hold:  everybody who says they have heard the voice of gawd is either a liar or in need of psychiatric intervention.

in my experience christians do not really believe in a back and forth two way communication with God while they pray to God its more of a one way experience and events that happen they attribute to God as a "response" .  yes that would be amazing if machines and human tech advanced to be able to do that i just dont think anything but personal experience will convince anyone but i could be wrong people have a lot of respect for science so a scientific discovery could convince some people but i think they will rationalize that its something other than God .