What does the Holy Spirit feel like?

Question

I've just read a question where several answerers referred to the Holy Spirit as a 'voice that tells you what to do and what not to do'.

I have that voice. It's the voice of reason within my head drawing on my past experiences, my education, my logic and my ability to predict. I'd like to think it's never failed me before.

Yet Christians will tell me that I don't have the Holy Spirit within me.

Do I?

king_of_hyrule: You're not so sweet anymore. You're just élitist. Did your own holy spirit tell you to say that?

Answer 1

When I was christian, I experienced what was referred to as the "holy spirit" 'enter' within me.
"These words are too solid. They don't move fast enough."(thank you, Suzanne Vega) The exact sensation, is impossible for me to describe, but, the closest I could come to a description would be, a lasting, full body orgasm without the mess or sexual intent!
There was more, of course, but you asked only of the 'feeling'. The 'feeling' soon went, after a time. There was no "voice" thankfully, else I'm sure I would have been quite mad.

After leaving the crutch of religious hatred, cleverly disguised as 'Love', I found I was able to fully recreate the experience at will, although so intense was it, I only ever, to this day, purposefully created it within me no more than a handful of times at most. The majority of those times were purely for experimental purposes, to prove something to myself concerning the nature of the event.

I am certainly no xtian! But...I do think you have the "holy spirit" within, Ed. You have the 'ability' to have it within you, whenever you so choose, also, and the right to call it whatever you wish. I don't call it by the christian title usually, but for the sake of argument here, I have.
The reason you are told by christians you don't have the Holy Spirit within you, is simply because to accept you can, makes a mockery of what they have been led to believe, and rightly so.
There is no 'entry'...it's there for everyone to find and use.
It's an internally created experience. Albeit a powerful one, hence the need to attribute it to a force considered 'higher' than Man.

Answer 2

All the human people talk to themselves inside their heads unless their corpus collosum has been fully severed, then the communication links have been severed. Some are unaware that there is a second self to communicate with or may simply be doing all of their dialectic thinking externally - such people are known to "think with their mouth open." It may be a matter of habit or brain damage. If the dominant side of the brain is more repressive of the other half of the brain, then this may be blocked out...

Schizophrenia is also a possibility once you realize that mental disorders occur in a spectrum of intensity. These people may simply be more delusional than you, but that does not make them superior. Plenty of schizophrenics hear voices. In ancient times and perhaps still in remote tribal cultures, schizophrenics frequently become shamen or witches/witchdoctors (or are seen as demon-possessed and killed). Maybe some schizophrenia might also be a result of an antagonistic relationship between the two halves of a brain.

The Holy Spirit may or may not be endemic, such that the it is always within AND outside of you. Perhaps the Holy Spirit is the Tao (T'dao). If that is true, then perhaps one feels seperation as a result of Kun-Fu-Tse-ing oneself. It is one thing to think things through, but something else to overcomplicate matters. One must set the mind at rest to sense it? If this is true, however, then "a small voice" is just metaphor.

Sometimes, while singing or participating in a group activity, one may feel a tingling feeling of excitement. This may or may not be the Spirit or it may be a religious explanation of a common psychological phenomenon due to endorphines released as one relaxes and enjoys oneself in large group activities.

Answer 3

No, it's because Christians don't understand what the Holy Spirit does. Holy Spirit does not make you "feel" a certain way, or act like a little voice in your head.

Traditional pre-pentacostal theology has always said that Holy Spirit confirms the truth of Scripture; You have Holy Spirit if you believe the Word of God.

That's the Christian view, anyway. Pentacostals will disagree.

Answer 4

To believe in Christ you must believe in two spirits one good and one bad. The Holy Ghost is the good one. And contrary to the way I was brought up I believe that you get the Holy Ghost when you become a Christian. There is a lot on television and in Church's that are not the true Holy Ghost. If you are a Child of God you have the Holy Ghost.

The Bible tells us that it will lead us into all truths. If you will be still and listen you will find it leads you away from the untruths.

A challenge to you. Set aside a time to pray and ask God to talk to you and lead you to still waters.

Remember that there is a Spiritual world as well as a physical one.

Answer 5

With all respect.....you sound like a thinking person......I may not be answering the original question..What does the Holy Spirit feel like?.....But I wanted to address your voice of reason.
Past experiences~You must be less than 100,how many experiences can you possibly have in under 100 years?
Education~How many years of education can make one wise in one lifetime?
Logic~Where did that brain come from?
Ability to predict~cannot come from a 3 dimensional being.

Everyone has an ultimate authority with which they draw from
Who or where does yours come from?
With all respect as a human being....if you have two eyes you are blind if you have 2 ears you are deaf........


Just a few questions to not answer your question with.

Wisdom calls in the street

p.s. just havin some fun!

best wishes!!

Answer 6

The Holy Spirit is the deposit, a down payment, if you will, against out eternal inheritance as a son/daughter of God through our belief in Jesus. If you believe Jesus and have asked him to live in your heart and be the lord of your life, then yes, you have received the holy spirit.
As to what the holy spirit feels like. . . well, it's more of a question of what effect the Holy Spirit has on ones life. Feelings can be misleading. SO here is a list of the attributes, or fruit that the Holy Spirit produces.

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law." (Galatians 5:22-23)

If I were to pick out one attribute that might be the most evident of the Holy Spirit, it would be peace or a peaceful mind.

It wouldn't hurt if you went to http://www.biblegateway.com and did a search on "Holy Spirit" to read up on the passages where the Spirit appears in the Bible.

Answer 7

The Holy Spirit, feels like a light of hope.. A guidance of love, and wisdom of all answers. Reason is okay too.. WE were given the ability to reason and make decisions. When I think of the Holy anything, I purk up and listen, I believe it will never steer you wrong or unjust. Reason may.. It can be thought of as a worldly acceptance. Some tend to lean only on reason and not listen to what the Holy Spirit says:
Rom 5:1-5
5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
NIV

Answer 8

No you really dont have the Holy Spirit with in you and it is not because that I am christian and that I am telling you this is Because the Holy Spirit don't tell you about your education or logic the Holy Spirit is only there to consule you and to tell you what is right and what is wrong.... The Holy Spirit is there also to tell you messages from God....

Answer 9

The Holy Spirit is that which gives peace when there is no peace. The Holy Spirit gives joy in a moment of sorrow. The Holy Spirit gives compassion when you should feel hatred. The Holy Spirit gives you opposites of every negative.

Answer 10

Oh you poor poor soul...have you fallen into the hands of the Assemblies of God or worse yet the Pentecostals?

They will inculcate in your head that their exclusive club
can only be joined if you manifest SOME outward sign of that mystical expedience only given to them ... speaking in tongues!

What does it feel like? Depends on what foolishness you want to
imitate or listen to? Read Watchman Nee on the Holy Spirit and you'll know the truth.

When they whack you on the head with a Bible resist the fall and don't do a "courtesy drop" just to make the Benny Hin look a like Evangelist feel good ! Ugh and double ugh!

"He that hath an ear let him hear".