Can you "hear" God? If you can, describe it.
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Thanks for your candor. Twenty years ago I was the biggest skeptic to any religion. That's the point. What people fail to recognize is that it's not unexplainable. It's scientific. People overlook the obvious because it's not conventional. If I told you that being sinless was possible you probably wouldn't believe me. It's not a matter of being good, it's about not having an interest for fleshy things. The reason that people can't hear God is because their fleshy desires control their thoughts. I really don't care if I live or die, eat or starve, have sex or be celibate. I lost a passion for everything it God. It is in this emptiness that He is loudest. Notice the people turned to God when their situations were dire. There is a definite connection to restrain for this life and spiritual awakening.
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Been there. Done that. And once Jesus saved me he started reteaching. But he started that in his real word. The Bible.
It's 45 years later, and I'm still learning stuff from his word that was taught differently in mass and parochial school.
When you have a bad teacher, you don't chuck the course work. You have to learn it over in real context. Catholic teachings is bad teachings. It doesn't mean everything ever taught was wrong. Just because there is no limbo/purgatory, doesn't mean there is no heaven and hell. It means we learned some stuff wrong, and now we have to go back and learn it right.
It's 45 years later, and I'm still learning stuff from his word that was taught differently in mass and parochial school.
When you have a bad teacher, you don't chuck the course work. You have to learn it over in real context. Catholic teachings is bad teachings. It doesn't mean everything ever taught was wrong. Just because there is no limbo/purgatory, doesn't mean there is no heaven and hell. It means we learned some stuff wrong, and now we have to go back and learn it right.
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Aren't you the same person who started a thread about wanting to work and desiring to make a place in the world and you were questioning your feelings and thoughts?
I find that thread in pretty big contradiction to this one
Maybe you can explain that to me
I think your experience is subjective and not any sort of measuring stick with which anyone else needs to be concerned
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Not true. What if that person was my sister, or a transvestite, or an underage sex slave prostitute? Your perception of things changes your attraction to them. I realized what the flesh is and have completely mastered it. It's all in the mind. If I believe I am nothing but sinful then I will make excuses for every sin. If I believe that my flesh is dead, it has no power. It obeys me. We are meat and chemicals fantastically engineered. We are balanced by a computer to function emotionally and physically. The body is programmed to adapt and reproduce in various environments. Once you can identify that there are patterns in behaviour and almost everything has predictability, you see the game that is life. It's all a game. Most of it is purposeless. The more
you feed the flesh then the stronger it gets. The more you eat, the hungrier you become. The more you indulge the eyes and the senses, the more they want and then the appetites of the flesh control the mind. This is why it is unlikely for a rich man to be saved. The pleasure in his life prevents him from establishing a connection.
Here's a question for you. What was the purpose of Christ starving Himself in the wilderness before beginning His ministry? If He had all of the power before hand why did He do no miracles until after this event?
you feed the flesh then the stronger it gets. The more you eat, the hungrier you become. The more you indulge the eyes and the senses, the more they want and then the appetites of the flesh control the mind. This is why it is unlikely for a rich man to be saved. The pleasure in his life prevents him from establishing a connection.
Here's a question for you. What was the purpose of Christ starving Himself in the wilderness before beginning His ministry? If He had all of the power before hand why did He do no miracles until after this event?
I have a desire for purpose. My conflict in that thread was to determine whether it was of the flesh or of the Spirit. The only fear I have is wasting the talents that God gave me. It wasn't long after I started that thread that the Lord explained a few things to me about the matter. My first question here was to determine whether others had similar communication with the Father.
I agree I wouldn't declare my experience as any sort of measuring stick. All I can say is that from my observations if what I perceive is accurate then a great deal of people will never understand salvation enough to receive it.
I agree I wouldn't declare my experience as any sort of measuring stick. All I can say is that from my observations if what I perceive is accurate then a great deal of people will never understand salvation enough to receive it.
The Lord talks to us all the time. It's a little hard to explain, even to understand. But, for instance, you have a problem, and suddenly the solution appears in your head. That is the Lord talking to you. He doesn't talk constantly - he isn't a blabbermouth. He doesn't talk on cue, as if he has to respond every time we want him to, but he talks to us a lot, and we're supposed to always be talking to him:
Pray constantly. 1 Thess 5:17 RSV
Pray constantly. 1 Thess 5:17 RSV
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We pray, God answers. Why do people think that strange?
The real question I have is why don't more people listen for God's answer?
I don't chase for signs or ask God for trivial things like which dress I should wear.
However, when I spend days praying and fasting from activities of this world because I am seeking God's answers about a problem I am having. God has always answered me.
Sometimes it's in dreams. Sometimes he places birds (dead and living) in my path. Sometimes people's words. Sometimes Bible verses.
Most often it's the same message/answer to my question over and over again from 3 or more different sources or ways or different people.
I can give examples but my phone is dying. Need to charge it.
How does God talk to you?
The real question I have is why don't more people listen for God's answer?
I don't chase for signs or ask God for trivial things like which dress I should wear.
However, when I spend days praying and fasting from activities of this world because I am seeking God's answers about a problem I am having. God has always answered me.
Sometimes it's in dreams. Sometimes he places birds (dead and living) in my path. Sometimes people's words. Sometimes Bible verses.
Most often it's the same message/answer to my question over and over again from 3 or more different sources or ways or different people.
I can give examples but my phone is dying. Need to charge it.
How does God talk to you?
God speaks to me in the same way He did when I first surrendered. He came to my heart. At the same time He surrounded me. It wasn't something I could see with my eyes but I knew it was true. His words were not picked up by my ears but I heard them.
I did not actually begin reading the Scriptures until 10 months later. I realized they were true and have been in love with them ever since.
The reason we can hear God when we read the scriptures is the same reason we would/could hear God when any human speaks to us. We are now "letters" just as we can go read them. Scripture reveals He used the saved, and the unsaved to deliver messages. He has even used a donkey ... a burning bush ... He has spoken "out of whirlwinds" ... most amazingly as the Person ... Yeshua. God speaks precisely when He means to and the manner in which He does is precisely for the human(s) He is speaking to. Hopefully that they know/grow in Him. But we know not everyone does that. So each word is also judgement/adding to the judgement to those rejecting them
I did not actually begin reading the Scriptures until 10 months later. I realized they were true and have been in love with them ever since.
The reason we can hear God when we read the scriptures is the same reason we would/could hear God when any human speaks to us. We are now "letters" just as we can go read them. Scripture reveals He used the saved, and the unsaved to deliver messages. He has even used a donkey ... a burning bush ... He has spoken "out of whirlwinds" ... most amazingly as the Person ... Yeshua. God speaks precisely when He means to and the manner in which He does is precisely for the human(s) He is speaking to. Hopefully that they know/grow in Him. But we know not everyone does that. So each word is also judgement/adding to the judgement to those rejecting them
People of jewish decent do that to not take Gods name in vain 
People of jewish decent do that to not take Gods name in vain