RE: Communicating with Him
April 24, 2012 at 1:00 pm
(This post was last modified: April 24, 2012 at 1:01 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(April 24, 2012 at 12:17 pm)Drich Wrote:(April 23, 2012 at 10:09 am)FallentoReason Wrote: I just want to ask you theists how you know when God has spoken to you? I don't mean to ask this in a mocking sort of way or anything of the sort. I sincerely want to hear from you guys how it happens.
You don't necessarily have to share a particular instance of this happening, as I don't want to create a thread where atheists will come and start making fun of it or whatever. Actually.. I guess it's kind of hard to ask this question and not have people start posting silly stuff as a bi product of my question..
Anyways, I'm just interested because it seems like every Christian friend I have has had personal conversations with God.. So is there a definite way of knowing?
It begins with the reading and understanding of the bible.
I don't think most Christians think God talks to them literally. It mostly works something like this: they pray for something, and then something later in the week happens (such as a job opening, a Bible verse they read, a heartfelt fortune cookie message, or really just anything) that they think "answers" their prayer in someway. I think it's just a similar problem that people going to psychics experience. The psychic gives people vague enough answers that anyone can interpret it to mean what they want it to mean to make it relevant to them.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
