RE: [split] Are Questions About God Important?
December 5, 2023 at 6:58 am
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2023 at 7:02 am by Confused-by-christianity.)
(December 4, 2023 at 10:50 pm)possibletarian Wrote:(November 30, 2023 at 7:32 pm)Confused-by-christianity Wrote: We basically have two answers here:
Question - what makes a thing important?
People who don’t believe in god
- because we say it is. Or, a group of us say it is
People who do believe in god
- because something higher made it so.
How do you know it's from 'higher up' can you prove a god? See how important proving a god is now?
I don't seem to have the mental dilemma you seem to have, let's look at it another way perhaps. What is morality?
I dont say i can prove god exists. I believe god exists. the reason i believe is due to personal religious experience ... one experience for example ...
I had been living in an unpleasant place for a long time - during this time i guess i would say i picked up something i would describe as a pretty dark spirit. some people have used a term "negative entity attachment".
i knew it was there on me but was in the shadows sort of thing. one night (in a dream??) it uncovered itself to me more fully - it told me it was going to consume me and act in my life through me. some call it possession - its more serious than the word implies though ?? the entity was strong and i really had no defence (im understating this here). in the last moments before it completely took over - in a last ditch effort i screamed out to jesus right before the end. Jesus had never shown up, or acted in a convincing way before as i saw it ... so why would he now. To me, he existed theoretically i guess. on paper, i believed in him but i didn't know much more than that.
To my highest astonishment - he showed up.
I couldn't believe he showed up, nor could i believe the kindness or the love. I understood in a tangible way goodness and truth. He was completely good, completely kind, he loves people and i felt that - he was calm and without a flicker of anger. not even for the demon.
The demon thing was gone. the abyss type entity couldn't be around jesus. I asked jesus "what was that thing??!!", jesus said "thats not for you". I begged jesus not to go, as soon as he leaves, the thing will come back - jesus said "that thing wont come back". I said its going to be waiting for me when i die to take me to awful horror (after ruining my life and everyone elses life around me - it had told me), jesus said "i'll be waiting for you when you die". I said to jesus "the depths of my life, how am i supposed to carry on and live?", jesus said not to worry about it "just live your life".
Then i felt and understood peace like nothing i thought could be possible. the love, kindness, warmth, joy, peace (absolutely everything is under complete control - we are all ok). I've felt that i should try and give that feeling out to whoever i've been given.