1984 & A/S/K revisited

[pocaracas]

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I was raised in church and became a Christian as a teenager, much later than most at my church. By the time I graduated from high school I left church and found the world and lived as the world for years. Returned to church and found a true relationship with Christ. This is the short of it, would take to long to write the details as they are many.

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Thus confirming the start of my description of you:

You get the info from other people that there is a divine entity which is invisible, untouchable and, basically, has no measurable physical interaction with our world, but it's out there, somewhere.

Of coarse, how do you learn, are you completely self taught, that would require no books, dvd, computer and ect. Being introduced to things and being pushed into things are two very different experiences. My parents nor anyone else pushed me into Christianity, I was allowed to search and sort things out for myself, wise parents are a blessing.

(I fixed some quote tags here... I hope I got them ok)
Of course that I'd expect you to learn things from other people.
Therein lies the whole problem.
Where you accepted the information provided to you and, perhaps subconsciously, got your confirmation of those things, I will never accept that information, on the basis that I am fully aware that my brain can play tricks on me in order to obtain said confirmation where there is none!

In other words, I think your brain tricked you into believing the way you do.
Not only you, but all other religious person, all of them stemming from some information they got from other people.

To me, this explains the worldwide religion phenomenon much more satisfyingly than there is some deity that has been consecutively misunderstood by the people of Earth.

What comes next?...
Define your deity for me, please.
Characterize how it interacts with our world, what sort of proof do you have for its existence that makes you stand by such existence so avidly.

What comes next, interesting question, wish I knew, God has something for me but at this moment I have no idea what that will be.
A better question would be what now, I will continue to help people with drug and alcohol problems as God sends them to me, most unfortunately do not listen and continue in lives that haunt even an ex-druggie like me. I will continue to study scripture and stay in prayer, in this I will be given more knowledge about who God is. I always look in anticipation for such wonderful revelation whether it comes from scripture, life or however God chooses to teach me. This interaction with God is just part of our relationship, many things happen in my life that I know is the work of God. God works in this world in many ways with billions of people, what I see is mostly from those closes to me.

That wasn't the next I was going for.... next in the text you dismissed as my Wednesday burnout.... I'm now on Friday euphoria, so things should be clear to me.... a bit too clear, maybe.

Define God, can't you find a harder question to ask, God is as He describes himself spirit, the only thing I can tell you about Him being spirit is He is not physical and thus not bound by the laws of this universe. God is love, truth, kindhearted, eternal, patient, long suffering, forgiving, all knowing, all powerful, generous, provider, loving guide, fortress against evil, promise keeper, solid foundation, comforter, shoulder to cry on, blesses and a blessing, sovereign, source of knowledge and wisdom, teacher, fountain to quench thirst, faithful, breath of life, just judge, redeemer, creator, my joy, freedom, savior, light and on and on I could go. Now these things are not what God is, they are who He is, He is our standard and no one can live up to this standard, that's why he is savior.

Ah, so many qualifiers that you attribute to that deity... amazing!
Now, let's look at my Wednesday rant:

You get the info from other people that there is a divine entity which is invisible, untouchable and, basically, has no measurable physical interaction with our world, but it's out there, somewhere. Those other people also tell you that this entity does interact with our world through people's emotions, feelings and whatnot...

I'd say I got it pretty accurately, in the "whatnot" detail

Maybe I wasn't as burned out as you thought....

And then, connecting with what I said in this post:

You take this information about this entity, accept it as trustworthy and proceed to confirm this information with a book the same people present to you.

Your mind then accepts the existence of the entity as real and proceeds to interpret some of your "emotions, feelings and whatnot" as an interaction of this entity within you.

I admit I didn't mention the subconscious part in that post... that may have thrown you off....

Onward.... why are you here, on this forum?