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Theists: what does your god want for you?
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RE: Theists: what does your god want for you?
March 17, 2013 at 3:52 pm (This post was last modified: March 17, 2013 at 4:01 pm by jstrodel.)
Agreed, it is different from lust. But it isn't the opposite. fr0d0 read the Catholic mystics. Or the Song of Solomon. Or read parts of Psalms. Augustine talks about God this way also, I have heard of him described as "the most God intoxicated person in history". Reading Confessions had a big impact on me.

God becomes very real to you when you get close to H'Shem.



The sh'ma
"Hear O I'srael H'shem our God H'Shem is one. You shall love H'shem with all your heart with all your soul with all your mind with all your strength"

This is the greatest commandment. It is calling people to love God. The church is called the bride of Christ, because they love Christ. When people love God, they live for God's glory and set their minds and affections on God and they become transformed into God's likeness. God adopts them as his children. It is very emotionally intense, and an ecstatic feeling to be unified with God and to die to self and see everything changed.

I has felt like I was in love with God many many times. That is what the Bible teaches, that is the first commandment. Christians are called to be the bride of Christ.
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RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by Rayaan - March 14, 2013 at 2:41 am
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by fr0d0 - March 15, 2013 at 8:25 am
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by fr0d0 - March 15, 2013 at 1:15 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by fr0d0 - March 16, 2013 at 6:36 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by fr0d0 - March 16, 2013 at 4:20 am
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by Tonus - March 15, 2013 at 10:15 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by fr0d0 - March 15, 2013 at 3:18 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by Cato - March 17, 2013 at 12:18 am
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by fr0d0 - March 17, 2013 at 3:50 am
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by fr0d0 - March 17, 2013 at 4:28 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by catfish - March 17, 2013 at 11:25 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by jstrodel - March 17, 2013 at 3:52 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by fr0d0 - March 17, 2013 at 8:47 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by Silver - March 17, 2013 at 10:37 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by EGross - March 21, 2013 at 5:27 am
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by Silver - March 23, 2013 at 8:00 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by Tonus - March 22, 2013 at 2:45 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by Silver - March 23, 2013 at 7:48 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by Silver - March 23, 2013 at 11:51 pm
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by catfish - March 24, 2013 at 11:28 am
RE: Theists: what does your god want for you? - by ciko83 - March 27, 2013 at 7:17 am

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