(November 17, 2016 at 2:03 pm)robvalue Wrote: That's quite an admission too, that this relationship won't be significant to everyone. I don't think I've ever heard that before.
But you see... if you fully believe you're having some sort of special relationship with this thing, it's bound to produce an emotional result. Whether or not anything real is going on, that is what I'd expect anyway. It's a kind of placebo effect. The question is how you know whether the emotions are coming from a real relationship, or just being triggered by your belief and what you expect to feel. Of course, I'd say you probably can't tell the difference. Nor could I start feeling this emotion unless I start believing the same thing, or I managed to actually have a relationship, if it is in fact non-imaginary.
Without a hypothesis to test, I can't believe any of it.
Time...
Time and the ultimate hardships of life/the wind and rain as Jesus describes it.
Over time and protracted.. 'life' our ideas of God are put to the test over and over and over again. given enough time and enough wind and rain, even the hardest heart will break under pressure, Unless there is indeed truth behind our God.
Also keep in mind 'hardships' are not always times without.. Hardship spiritually speaking are often times with too much/plenty.
