How Do Christians Know When God Is Speaking to Them?

[popsthebuilder]

Yeah, it's pretty much that thing when you ask yourself something and whichever answer seems right you go along with, except probably more intense than that since you actually have a reason you believe in that it works.

I wouldn't dismiss the possibility that the more you believe the more are your brain patterns modified by that belief and the more distorted your worldview is as a result. Including such normally incredible things as someone talking to you in your own mind. It may happen for a lot of believers yet be so 'natural' for them that it's never classified as a symptom of mental illness. And maybe it shouldn't be either, so long as they're actually high-functioning individuals. Well, of course, being religious necessarily makes you a worse model than a non-religious person, as far as thinking things go, but maybe that's not always cause for extreme measures.


Or maybe... Maybe, they're simply imagining someone talking to them. I do it sometimes when I want to entertain myself, or when I replay a scene from real life in my head, either exactly as it occured, or with my own modifications. The effect is incredibly real, I can actually hear in my mind the voice(s) I conjure up and the process of making it say specific things is so subtle as to be almost automatic. Maybe that's what is happening here, in which case it's actually pretty trivial.

Did you really say that one of faith in a singular creative force is necessarily of a lower intellect than a nihilist?

I know you didn't use those exact words but still.

As if all scientific advancement was made by atheists or something.

Don't be so quick to make the opinion of the masses your own. Especially such a biased opinion as that.

Faith in selfless Unity for Good.