(August 7, 2009 at 5:09 am)oldjonesy Wrote: In my discussions with christians I am always intrigued to hear them go on about having a 'real personal relationship with Jesus/God'
Further questioning reveals that they talk to Jesus and get a warm fuzzy feeling that Jesus is listening or guiding them in some way.
When I was a Christian I truly felt that I had this relationship...I'm probably one of the few people that have experienced something like that to still come out of Christianity. My "relationship" was just as real to me as speaking to my wife, except for this was something that I was constantly in. There is a verse in the Bible that says to pray without ceasing - I literally did that. All the time I felt like there was an invisible string connected between myself and my imaginary friend, God.
The warm fuzzies were common.
Quote:I have also met those people who not only talk to Jesus but get a reply!
yea...easily explained though---psychologically speaking, we can easily create an expectation of our deity and he will give us the answers that we require when we ask for them.
Quote:My own father in law is a born again fundie who just won't shut up about Jesus/God, all day every day. It starts raining and its praise God, it stops raining and its thank you Jesus. He also claims to be speaking with God/Jesus all the time and that God speaks to him. I am too afraid to ask if God is actually replying in an articulated voice or not as that will usually set him off on his favourite discussion - religion, for many hours.
I did hear the "voice" of God a lot. but not as often as I felt what can only be described as an unction to act or a feeling or a notion as to something I should do.
Quote:So I ask those on this forum who may be reformed christians - did you have ever have a personal relationship to Jesus and did he ever reply back to you when you spoke to him?
I guess I've already answered that
Quote:I am curious if my father in law is actually hearing voices or when he refers to God talking to him is he just referring to that fuzzy warm feeling.
only he would know that.
I recently did a blog post on Religion Vs Relationship after someone said that I had rejected religion because I had never had a relationship with Christ....stuff like that insults me greatly, because I gave god everything I had when I believed
