RE: God and the Imagination
May 20, 2013 at 2:10 am
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2013 at 2:14 am by Praetorian.)
(May 19, 2013 at 9:07 pm)Freedom Wrote: They really don't believe they are doing that!
It's difficult to distinguish between one's imagination and the objectivity of a deity.
What do you think?
I know when I was a believer, this was a constant worry. It was stated differently, as in, "Don't let your own thoughts get in the way of what God is telling you." People had varying degrees of certainty as to what they were hearing, of course. A famous example is a southern preacher, can't recall his name, who had the idea of hell weighing heavily on his conscience. So he prayed, and he's now utterly certain that God told him hell doesn't exist. Convenient, yes?
Prayer is nothing but deep self reflection, no matter what @Godschild says about his personal experience. There is certainly no interaction with the supernatural, and the answers you can get from it are the simple result of asking yourself a question. Ask and you shall receive - from yourself.
Isn't it profound that, as a Christian, when you pray and hear nothing, Christian doctrine tells you that you're just, "not ready for the answer yet?" It's silly, and obvious to anyone who spends even a moment as an outsider.
