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

[Angrboda]

Oh....I see...and what does this ghost say to to you (assuming you've learned to listen......)?

He told me to Stick it out with my wife so long as she was 'repentant' (For the Herion thing) to not forsake her, and God would not forsake me. To spend 10 years working in the innercity missions, Most recently to answer your questions, and Go to a new church. Along with daily direction on where to take the business I manage for Him.

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Yes, please, do tell...did god send you a text message or is he more of a Morse code kind of guy?

If it is a question or a spiritual matter I am working through I can get a sermon on the radio to speak directly towards it, or can even get a direct revelation. Meaning that I won't know what to do or say and then just know something beyond my scope, that fits the situation or problem perfectly.

Then their are dreams/visions, and of course the angel/messenger story you guys seem to love so much. But I would say the great majority comes from simply being connected with a strong fellowship of believers and allowing God to work or give direction from with in the group.

This is so reminiscent of passages from Homer in which people perceived the gods speaking directly to them, it's scary. I suspect that as many such occurrences happen as in the past, as they are likely the result of the nature of the human brain, and that hasn't changed drastically. (And as a person with a psychotic disorder, who is knowledgeable in the ways such things work, it is all too familiar.) What likely has changed has been the interpretation of those events, whether they will be exalted as a prophet like Isaiah, or recommended to seek therapy, and how free they will be in sharing such experiences with others in an age which is highly skeptical of such things.

Even as Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one opens the door, I will come into him" (Revelation 3:20). He enters our lives at our permission. And if we sincerely want to find out if he's there and what he is like, he will allow us to find him and know him. ()

"Hellooo Mr. Confirmation Bias!"

Drich, I'm feeling poorly today. Could you provide a reference to the specific passages in Mark, Luke and Acts which you claim explain the cessation of miracles. I'd like to read them.

The apocryphal Acts of Peter gives a more elaborate tale of Simon Magus' death. Simon is performing magic in the Forum, and in order to prove himself to be a god, he levitates up into the air above the Forum. The apostle Peter prays to God to stop his flying, and he stops mid-air and falls into a place called the Sacra Via (meaning, Holy Way), breaking his legs "in three parts". The previously non-hostile crowd then stones him. Now gravely injured, he had some people carry him on a bed at night from Rome to Ariccia, and was brought from there to Terracina to a person named Castor, who on accusations of sorcery was banished from Rome. The Acts then continue to say that he died "while being sorely cut by two physicians".

Whatever God's chosen mechanism for the cessation of miracles, it doesn't appear to have been very strong, as people will still be burned for witchcraft as late as the 18th century.