Many faiths point to a personal experience of God.
If you believe that you experience a spiritual force in your life, can you explain how you concluded that it was God?
Why do you reject seeing it as a component of your own unconscious mental processes?
If you feel God's presence, does this presence give you messages or lead you to perform particular acts?
What happens when someone else experiences a similarly sincere revelation that is at odds with your own spiritual messages from God?
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2006-12-28 02:47:32 · 8 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What I'm about to say only applies if you're speaking of the Christian interpretation of God.
Christians follow "God" so willingly and without question b/c it makes them feel safe. It's something to cling to. They don't have to think for themselves, b/c they have a God and a big book to follow. As long as they follow the God and the big book, they'll be safe forever. It's a very appealing idea, which is why Christians like to follow it so much. When they encounter things that "odd" with their own message, or the thought of it being a "component of their own unconcious mental process", they simply wave it off.
On a different note, when you say "What happens when someone else experiences a similarly sincere revelation that is at odds with your own spiritual messages from God?", I think that God can be whatever helps people to become a better person. It can be art, music... whatever. Unfortunately, most people follow one specific idea or God, even if it doesn't work with them. It makes no sense.
2006-12-28 02:54:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
How...just knew.
How do you know you exist - you just know.
How do you know the world exists - you just know.
Some try to show the world doesn't exist by using arguments like mental process only (brain in box idea).
You'll know - if you find God (in the cosmic game of hide and seek).
Messages and guidance - yes - but it is a small "voice" easy missed over the your own voice of desires. It is a rough guage, but judge the fruit of actions based upon alignment with Love, Truth, Harmony, and Unity (the basic principles that found faiths around the world).
If God tells them to kill their family (sincere revelation you could argue) - I would not accept it.
~ Eric Putkonen
2006-12-28 03:20:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This could be checked by trying different self-experiments-
f.e. if there is regular succsess in some activity when addressing a prayer/or saying a mantara -this proves the connection with Him,
even if we enter by our prayer in a specific globalconsience sphere that help us, this means again a spiritual connection with the High Power..
2006-12-28 03:23:50 · answer #3 · answered by ThanksBelit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gods power is different like no other feeling. If something happened i.e. someone died... you may feel peice not always but it does depend maybe it is mental who knows maybe god does it through you mind but i go to church and people experience it all the time. People are generally more happy for long term aswell. Faith is more than hope.
2006-12-28 02:56:01 · answer #4 · answered by CS 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is based on faith... the belief in something despite a lack of physical evidence.
2006-12-28 02:50:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could "unconscious wish fulfillment" do this?
(Levitates computer desk)
2006-12-28 02:53:34 · answer #6 · answered by YahooGuru2u 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no god.
http://www.godisimaginary.com/
2006-12-28 02:58:18 · answer #7 · answered by A Baby Ate My Dingo 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are too brainwashed
2006-12-28 02:50:15 · answer #8 · answered by The atheist revolutionary 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋