"Gospel Quest" (or The Jesus Timeline)

[Esquilax]

If a student is to learn anything, at some point he needs to stop critiquing his teacher and start listening. What sample size should he take before finally giving himself over to instruction? This crossing-of-the-line is a type of faith. And all the while, the Holy Spirit is communicating with our spirit. We are spiritual beings. We can't do anything without our spirit agreeing. A "feeling" is often a symptom of your spirit. Likewise, we can't do anything unless our feelings agree. In fact, our feelings are the only reason we do anything. If you no longer felt like living, you wouldn't. Think about that. You would never watch TV unless you liked the way it entertained you. You would never get a job unless you thought the money would make you happy. Your quest in life is to be happy, and that is a feeling. So when you talk about basing beliefs on feelings, I think about the deepest longings of my soul--what satisfies and fulfills me, what makes life worth living. God makes like worth living. My spirit, which spills out as "feelings" tell me this is so. It is not wishful thinking. It is my spirit, the immaterial integral part of every person. This is hard to explain. All I can say is, once you realize you have one, you are a believer. That's why it is so obvious to Christians that God is alive and working. He lives in us, we can't miss him. If you suddenly woke up with an extra limb made out of light that only you could see, you couldn't miss it. If you want this, if you really want this, you can ask, seek and knock. Drich has a nice recent thread on the topic.

Are you kidding me? You're saying feelings are verification of god, and to justify this your examples were exclusively opinions and preferences. But god isn't a preference, and your opinion on whether or not he exists means nothing. God, if he exists, is an objective phenomena, not something your feelings can confirm. Psychology is rife with the study of cognitive biases and fallacies, to begin with, and if you really want to handwave all this by talking about feelings, then you have to allow for the fact that every other religion on the planet has followers who just feel that their god exists. Aside from special pleading, what do you have to confirm the existence of your god and discount theirs?

Not that it matters, since feelings aren't a reliable source of information to begin with, and attempting to attach them- without evidence or anything- to a soul you haven't bothered to prove doesn't help you. You do understand that we identify people with mental illnesses partially on the basis that what they feel exists does not match up to external reality, don't you?