RE: Theists, please describe how you experience your god
June 5, 2018 at 12:38 am
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2018 at 1:21 am by Godscreated.)
(June 4, 2018 at 9:40 am)Mathilda Wrote: I can relate to that. That's how I imagined God when I was taught to believe in him. Anything more specific than that seemed too parochial.
I'm addressing this bold by me with all sincerity, one can not be taught to believe in God, it is a personal experience between God and the person. This is where I see many who believe they were/are Christians have gone wrong. To many people teach this way in the churches, I've personally seen this happen, they are so eager to have people saved that they do not allow God to do the work that is His, they want to do it for Him and salvation is work only God can do. Jesus did not die so man could save man, He died to redeem the lost back to himself. You do not need to reply to this I was only trying to make a point about why so many struggle with Christianity.
GC
(June 4, 2018 at 6:45 am)Mathilda Wrote: If you are religious and believe that you experience your god then please describe what you have personally seen / heard / felt etc.
I'm taking this as serious because of your reply to CL.
Mathilda Wrote:So for example, if you actually hear your god then what language does (s)he speak. What accent does (s)he have? Is it a male or female voice? What does his / her / its voice sound like? Deep? High pitched? Soft?
I've heard God in a sense, it wasn't audible but it might as well been because it was plain as day. The language was English of coarse, there was no accent no certain pitch, nor distinctively deep or soft. What was distinct was the authority to it and the certainty of it. Once it was three words and once it was as if an entire book had been emptied into my head at once with full understanding. You are asking Christians to explain things that are not explainable even to other Christians because these are not the focus Christians care about when God does answer them.
Mathilda Wrote:If you see your god then what does it look like? White skinned, old, blue eyes and wearing white robes with a long strokable beard?
Moses was not allowed to see God and Paul was blinded and could not see Jesus in all His glory, so why would you believe that Christians would be allowed to see God in this time. Your question resembles pictures of God where people are just guessing or they are trying to portray a message of a wise God.
Mathilda Wrote:Have you ever felt your god touch your skin?
Or if you do nothing but feel the presence of your god then please describe this sensation as well.
No I haven't and see no reason why God would touch a sinner. I have felt His presence when I prayed, I can't explain what I felt other than there was someone with me that I could not see but knew without doubt, I can say it was a powerful feeling as if One of authority was standing by me. Again an unexplainable sensation.
GC
PS of coarse each person will have different experiences, we are all different and require different approaches, we have a personal relationship and God most certainly treats it as such.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.