And how do you know it's god and not your mind?
2006-08-23 02:12:52 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He sounds a bit like George Burns.
2006-08-23 02:15:26 · answer #1 · answered by rahkokwee 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is the deity believed by monotheists to be the supreme reality. He is believed variously to be the creator, or at least the sustainer, of the universe. [1]
Theologians and philosophers have ascribed a number of attributes to God, including omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, perfect goodness, divine simplicity, and eternal and necessary existence. He has been described as incorporeal, a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the greatest conceivable existent. [1] These attributes were all supported to varying degrees by the early Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars, including St Augustine, [2] Al-Ghazali, [3] and Maimonides. [2] Freud regarded this view of God as wish fulfillment for the perfect father figure, [3] while Marxist writers see it as rooted in the powerlessness experienced by men and women in oppressive societies.
All the great medieval philosophers developed arguments for the existence of God, [3] attempting to wrestle with the contradictions God's attributes appear to imply. For example, God's omniscience implies that he knows how free agents will choose to act. If he does know this, their apparent freewill is illusory; and if he does not know it, he is not omniscient. [4] Similar difficulties follow from the proposition that God is the source of all moral obligation. If nothing would be right or wrong without God's commands, then his commands appear arbitrary. If his commands are based on fundamental principles that even he cannot change, then he is not omnipotent. [5]
The last few hundred years of philosophy have seen sustained attacks on the ontological, cosmological, and teleological arguments for God's existence. Against these, theists (or fideists) argue that faith is not a product of reason, but requires risk. There would be no risk, they say, if the arguments for God's existence were as solid as the laws of logic, a position famously summed up by Pascal as: "The heart has reasons which reason knows not of." [6]
Altough a "god" is part of many religions in the world, it is mostly seen as a mere metaphor for an omnipotent power (which might control destiny, nature, a.o. - depending on the religion
2006-08-23 09:15:12 · answer #2 · answered by Linda 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Lord Jesus speaks to us all in many different ways. It's just that we (as a society) have learned to tune out the still small voice that speaks to our hearts. So that's why a lot of people think that God does not speak to them.
In my personal life the Holy Spirit speaks to me through scripture, through song, through other people, and just directly to my heart.
I know it's not my mind because it's at times my thoughts that are being convicted. It's not like a "particular sound" it's just...that my will bows to whatever it is that the Holy Spirit is telling me or saying to me. The Holy Spirit prays for me when I don't know what to pray. The Holy Spirit helps me praise and worship. The Holy Spirit speaks to me about everyday life and everyday decisions.
Truly it's not a matter of the mind, it's a matter of the heart & spirit. You have to read your bible, and pray, and walk daily with the Lord Jesus.
Blessings To You & Yours
2006-08-23 09:30:25 · answer #3 · answered by Pastors Wife 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the 1Kings God talks to Elisha in a wishper of wind.
"Then the LORD said, "Go outside and stand on the mountain before the LORD; the LORD will be passing by." A strong and heavy wind was rending the mountains and crushing rocks before the LORD - but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake - but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake there was fire - but the LORD was not in the fire. After the fire there was a tiny whispering sound. When he heard this, Elijah hid his face in his cloak and went and stood at the entrance of the cave. A voice said to him, "Elijah, why are you here?"
It was not in the magnificent or the mighty that God talked but in the tiny and the ordinary that is over looked everyday, my answer is yes God does talk in the ordinary and in the whispers when your heart is silent.
2006-08-23 09:34:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You would have to have a strong relationship with God in order for you to understand and recgonize what the voice of God sounds like. I hear Him talk to me all the time, and It's not just in my head. This is not somthing that can be described to another person, The other person has to develope that relationship with God themselves to know that answer to that question. It's one of the perks of being a Christian and having a strong relationship with God. Prasie the Lord!!
2006-08-23 09:22:21 · answer #5 · answered by Carol M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds kind of like a gremlin or a goblin. I haven't had any proof that it's God, but it sure isn't my mind or voices in my head.
He claims to be God If He says He's God, that's enough proof for me. I wouldn't be caught dead putting my Lord to the test.
2006-08-23 09:29:55 · answer #6 · answered by overseas and broke 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
s, he sounds like God, I knows its God by recognizing the difference of my mind and God. I am not joking. I could know Him when I tries out my self out of my mind.
2006-08-24 03:01:30 · answer #7 · answered by N O 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He speaks from your mind
2006-08-23 09:19:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When God speaks, She whispers softer than a summer's breeze, gentler than a drifting cloud. Her murmurs are of strength and comfort and love, those things we humans often cannot find within ourselves. We have to listen very carefully and quietly to hear Her.
2006-08-23 09:24:09 · answer #9 · answered by expatturk 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He speaks mostly to my mind with scripture. A couple of times it seemed audible. It was loud and kind of thundering.
2006-08-23 09:17:03 · answer #10 · answered by RB 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋