Why do so many Christians think they can read minds?

Question

I see the Christians telling other people on here what those people are thinking or what their intentions are repeatedly.

Is the ability to read minds something you are awarded with from your church?
If it is not something they give out at the annual church picnic where does it come from.

The atheists don't seem to have this ability, and there might be a market for it with them. (But maybe they just see no need for it)

Answer 1

I can't read minds but can operate in the gifts of the Spirit..if that's telling me someone's heart motive..then so be it.

Answer 2

Among the denominations of Christianity, certain terminologies and forms of rhetoric have developed, and through interaction with one another, many of us have learned to tell where someone takes their faith experience from.

I just had a(n hour long) conversation with someone who is Pentecostal. I saw it immediately because she talked about the Catholic Church being "deceived" - this is a word you hear a great deal among many of the Charismatic elements that find clarity via an emotional and physical experience of the Spirit - and hence INSIST that clarity can only be made certain once this experience occurs.

Also remember that Christian theology tends to be systemic in nature (in order to reconcile the apparant contradictions in Scripture; I say apparant because they do reconcile), which often makes it difficult to understand, and so the dialectics occuring therein tend to be systemic as well, so that they sound like stock answers.

Thus the difference between an armchair theologian (often recent converts) and someone who knows what they're talking about tends to be the ability to present creative reasoning rather than stock answers. Ie, if you hear a Christian answer an argument of yours with "You just need to find Christ", it means "I can't think of an answer."

So, no, we can't read minds, but we understand the systemic biases apparent in conversation, or at least attempt to do so.

Answer 3

I don't have the ability to read minds (drats) However, I do know, from my own experiences how I felt when I was in a similar place in my life and if I can offer someone a hand out of the pit of hell, then I will do what I can do to help. INCLUDING listening and offering appologies for those who hurt them or abused them or drove them away from God in the first place. It's not much on the outside, but on some level they may feel better.

Answer 4

Human beings have telepathic ability. And The Holy Spirit often speaks through us, and tells others things they don't want to hear. Bad spirits can also talk to us through our best friends. And say things to hurt us. Everybody knows this.

Answer 5

i'm a Christian, and to be completely easy, I even have never study yet another holy e book different than the Bible. it particularly is no longer that i don't have an interest, yet because of the fact i'm Christian, i pick to be attentive to the Bible to boot as i'm able to, so as that as quickly as or if I study yet another holy e book, that i visit be extra perfect able to comprehend it, meaning having the flexibility to analyze it to what i be attentive to from the Bible. I nonetheless don't comprehend the Bible nicely sufficient to have the potential to study yet another holy e book without confusion or prejudice.

Answer 6

I would guess that often we rely on our old patterns of thinking. When you become a Christian, you still remember what life used to be like. Your way of thinking changes as revelations come to you. In those revelations, the errors of our old thinking are brought to light. When someone asks a question on here that looks like our old thinking, we try to share the revelation of truth that we've had in ourselves.

It's not about reading minds, but pulling from our own past, and guessing that others may be in the same boat.

Answer 7

I always wonder this myself. Even though I am a believer, I am sorry to see that too many Christians have this bad habit and unfortunately they always think your intention is the worst. Terrible.

Answer 8

Wow...what posts have you been reading?? I haven't seen that at all...

Answer 9

no they are not mind readers to us that is superstition bye now god bless you