Why do christians think god communicates with warm fuzzy feelings instead of direct verbal speach?

[Drich]

So, it would be fair to say, that this ghost has such an influence over you that it can make decisions for you, or compel you to continue in a course of action which terrifies you?

yup

Me? Probably not.

I hope you never have to find out.

You didn't run, and though you credit a ghostly voice for this is it so hard to imagine that another would have their own (entirely dissimilar) reasons for staying?

Loyality/love will buy time for a while but everyone has their breaking point. The question was would you/they stay beyond that breaking point?

So again we see an entity capable of compelling you to do things you do not want to do.

Yes like showing compassioning and opening my heart to love when it is not in my nature to do so.

Hmn, well this is troubling..you have difficulty determining where you end and the voice begins?

I can't go back to pervious posts and tell you what I already knew, and what I learned on 95% of the day to day stuff. (Just forgot, as it all blends together.) The bigger topics like Hell, I know was beyond my comperhension when I learned of it.

How about you, did you like the church..

I went their for 15 years, it were I did most of my ministry. all of my friends were there. It's where I met my wife, where I was married and where I thought I would die. But things change, and it became a question of who do you love more God, or the church/method of worship?

were you showing up regularly?

3 times a week.

I'm not certain that god is required for a religious organization to open a church somewhere Drich. I mean, there are plenty of churches opening all the time that you don't figure have anything to do with god...right?

There are 3 times as many church currently closing in the states than their are churches opening. This was a small religious movement based out of chicago. Their were/are only a few dozen of these churches just now beginning to spring up. to have one come here is all God.

Who do you write those checks to, or does the ghost cash them itself?

both.

Since when was this about me? I don't have conversations with ghosts. You've set -yourself- up as a standard..the only standard I'm aware of. I'm just asking you how you perceive these communications. I appreciate that you're attempting to understand why I don't believe (but to be truthful, whether or not I had a conversation with a ghostly voice isn't going to make me a christian Drich - it would have a similarly marginal effect on whether or not I believed in gods or ghosts). Why did this thread turn into your favorite sermon again? I didn't ask you how I could speak to your ghost, I asked you what your experience was like. I don't need faith, so maybe god doesn't speak to me because others need attention in ways that I don't, and he's a busy man. Perhaps god doesn't give me anything because I require no divine gifts or favors to accomplish goals. All of this, is of course, irrelevant with regards to a description of your experiences. If it was something you didn't want to share that's fine (but it's probably not possible for me to refrain from asking questions like these....curiosity you know, once it's been brought up). Otherwise.....you're relating this experience in earnest, are you not? You would appreciate it if I took you seriously, would you not? Well, if any of that is going to happen there will have to be just a smidgeon of reciprocation Drich.

fair enough