Why do christians think god communicates with warm fuzzy feelings instead of direct verbal speach?

[The Grand Nudger]

Meh, it's just pious fiction, replete with references to valleys and the obligatory knifing (common themes in their fiction). It terminates abruptly with "and he became a believer - praise the lawd" with no explanation of the interim. All in all I give this liar for jesus a 1/10.

[FutureAndAHope]

Hi God has spoken to me audiably before on numerous occassions. Read my website at http://www.futureandahope.net for examples.

Below is one example of him speaking to me.

One morning I got up and walked into the hall and I heard a voice that I believed was God say "How would you like to be stabbed in the Valley". The Valley was known as the rough end of town, and the voice scared me a little, I wondered if I had done something to offend God. I had planned to go down to the Valley to ask people out to church as was my habit at the time. In the end I went anyway regardless of the fear. I walked up to the first person I met and asked him if he would like to go out to church. He said to me "I am an atheist, I don't believe in God". I just said "fine", but hoped to change his mind. He then proceeded to unbutton his shirt and showed me scar marks up and down his chest and stomach. He said to me, "I was attacked by a knife wielding man in the Valley some time ago and spent months recovering in hospital, How could God allow that to happen to me". Then I knew why God had said in the morning "How would I like to be stabbed?". God understood this man, but had a good plan for him. Some weeks latter this man came out to church and became a Christian.

Did god tell you to steal a stock image of the knife wielding man for the story? It was taken from here:
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-2935615/...13703-1-32
Knowledgeable atheists do not start off debate with a "look at my scars and why did god do that?" That seems very far fetched. Can you give us this man's name to us so we can ask him why he converted? Perhaps you could give him our forum address, we'd love to meet him!

Hi I don't know where Simon lives nowdays, he lived in a Suburb quite far away from the church. After is initial conversion he mentioned he had Christian family members, so I just left him to his family, I did not get involved in his life. So Sorry I can't get him onto this forum. He told me his name was was Simon Murray.

As for the stock image on my website it is purely for interest sake, it is not deceptive.

[Angrboda]

At one point in my life I was praying for scientific cures for illnesses like cancer. Because I was on a science kick I thought would it not be fun to create a real life dinosaur. I wanted Jesus just for fun to show me how to create a Real Live Dinosaur, he can show us anything you know if he wants, but when I asked him how to start recreating a Dinosaur. Jesus spoke into my head the sentence "I bood", it entered my mind when I was awake, a term I had never heard before. I decided to look it up on the Internet and I found out the following: You see, the children of Semai are taught from an early age, the concept of "bood." If a parent asks a child to do something and the child replies "I bood," in other words, "I don't feel like doing that," the matter is closed. Bood means gently No.

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[Faith No More]

I had to click on that link, because I was absolutely certain that you made that shit up. But no...

[Cyberman]

Here's why I'm unconvinced by that little vignette. What immediately jumps out at me is the way the spelling for the word 'bood' was apparently derived from the sound alone; unless JC now comes with subtitles, there's no way to distinguish 'bood' from 'booed', which, being a more common word, would be the most likely for an English speaker to assume. However, a quick Google search for 'bood', as F&H says he made, gives the following Urban Dictionary definition as the number one hit: "When your in a bad mood and don't feel like saying "I'm in a bad mood." This word is for the ultimate lazy person. However if used correctly you may lol from the stupidity of it's pronunciation." The Semai connection is among the Google hits but you'd deliberately have to pick and choose the result you're after - in other words, confirmation bias. Maybe JC was trying to save F&H money on consumer electronics with the iBOOD Android app? Or maybe what he actually said was "I pooed", which is toddler-speak for "I say, I appear to have inadvertently evacuated my bowels. I'm most frightfully sorry."

2/10 for trying, anyway, F&H.