Quote:Zeus.. I would agree that your peaceful feelings alone from prayer were were most likely self-justification from cognitive dissonance. Typically, on the rare occasion I ask for guidance or peace, I do get a sense of peace but I also get an insight or an opportunity or a synchronistic event almost immediately with that peace. If I experience what you're describing, I'd probably feel similarly.
Are we just trying to explain something away, which is unexplainable?
I prayed a few weeks and I felt this weird sense of peace come over me, I never asked for it, all I did was ask for help. Perhaps it is God connecting with us immaterially...
Its ok to have doubt, just dont let that doubt become the answers.
You dont hate God, you hate the church game.
"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed." Saint Augustine
Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him. -Martin H. Fischer
You dont hate God, you hate the church game.
"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed." Saint Augustine
Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him. -Martin H. Fischer
