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My pastor used to say that "if someone claimed that God talks to them, you should run away."
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My pastor used to say that "if someone claimed that God talks to them, you should run away."
I've met a few people who make those kinds of claims. I just nod my head and change the subject.
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God’s message is actually quite similar throughout the different theistic traditions, with the message being: 1) be a good person, in the sense acting in the highest moral standard, such as not harming others or yourself, etc, and 2) love and worship God will all that you are. The differences are easily attributed to faulty communication with God or outright misinformation.
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maybe they are talking to different gods? it's pretty hard to all stay on the same page when there are so many voices. and really, how does anyone KNOW they are talking to the 'right" god? it is a conundrum
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Fear. Fear causes those who have not conquered it to perceive reality in a way that lets them feel safe. God is a coping method.
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Fear. Fear causes those who have not conquered it to perceive reality in a way that lets them feel safe. God is a coping method.
Those who are afraid are also too quick to allow others to think for them and to trust those whom they should not be trusting. Politicians and pastors/priests can be just as corrupt or lost as those whom they lead.
Quantum physicists have amassed abundant evidence that "God" doesn't exist. There is an energy field, however. This energy field is aware. It has no power OVER you, but it is the power OF you. You use it as you create your own reality according to your beliefs.
If you begin learning about your beliefs, and the thoughts and emotions that formed them, you can take control over them. When you have sorted through them and release those that do not serve you well, you will see a change in your own thought process.
The more one says "God said", the further away from the aware source one is, and that's just the way it is.
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We are broken. Here's the thing - even if we assume that everybody's god is completely different from everybody else's, that doesn't say a thing about god, for or against.
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The way in which we interact with God depends on our relationship with him. I have never hear him audibly speak but believe he speaks to me through others.
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Truth is not some guy...If God be the compartment of everything that is ..and is every where..in and of everything that is..who can say it is a lie specially if god/truth is theirs?
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Truth is not some guy...If God be the compartment of everything that is ..and is every where..in and of everything that is..who can say it is a lie specially if god/truth is theirs?
The question I have for you is..Why do you see god as some guy when they clearly do not?
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The idea is that while God is congruent, everyone's relationship with God is as personal as they are.
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The idea is that while God is congruent, everyone's relationship with God is as personal as they are.
Let's imagine hypothetical character Bob. He's a real mover-and-shaker, so lots upon lots of people know him. Some know him in a business context and through the eyes of their own business and what he brings to them. Others know Bob from the country club. He's a bit of a character there, letting his hair down a bit and relaxing. Others know him from the "Save the Children" committee where he sits on the board and there's absolutely no nonsense when it come to helping starving and disadvantaged children. And then there's the way his extended family know him -- always helpful, generous, the life of family get-togethers. Then there's the way his children known him as a kind and supportive, fair father, but of very high expectations when it comes to them. And now add in his wife, who probably knows him best of all.
Now each of these people are going to have a different outlook on Bob -- each according to what they "need" from him. And someone from the country club taking to someone from the "Save the Children" committee might at first think they are both talking about someone different.
But then they start comparing the actual character and spirit of the man they are talking about, and they will both find they are talking about the same person.
They just each know him differently.
God is big enough and active in so many things, that many upon many people can claim to have a personal relationship with Him. Yet even in all of those personal relationships, God is still God. There is a "nature" or a "Spirit" to God that never changes. Catch sight of even the smallest sign of this in someone's claimed relationship with God, and you can say, "Yes, the fingerprints of God are upon this person".
(Not a judgement, but a recognition of "the Bob" that you know.)
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I think, personally, God has manifested Himself in different ways to to different people (or groups of people) throughout history. I don't believe God communicates to us the way He used to, in say, the Old Testament times. Its not the same as when we communicate verbally to each other. I think the inconsitency comes from people not doing the other, probably most important part of communication- listening. Also, I people are expecting a "normal" message like we get from each other, and again, I don't believe that this is how God communicates with us iin this moment in history. I question those who believe they have heard a direct, clear, verbal message from God nowadays. I'm not saying it can't or doesn't happen; I'm just skeptical.
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Most would say you aren't listening when he speaks to you. If you are waiting for a voice to thunder from the sky or a glowing ball of light to float over you in your sleep you may be missing out.
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