After asking a question based on the religious experience of others?

Question

Many of my religious answerers replied that they wouldn't be swayed by anothers experience, then doesnt that therefore make the arguement from religious experience null and void? Doesnt that make your own religious experiences nothing except for something that happened in your own head? Or are you all massive hypocrites

David the reason I ask this, is because many claim that religious experience supposedly proves one religion or another. You say that people of any religion may have a religious experience and that its not anything less then yours? Then how does that work? Espically if your a Christian and the person you talk to is Hindu? How can one person experience their God and you have your own, that is only for you? Isn't it a logical step to make that people only have religious experiences because their brain tricks them into believing something has more meaning than it really does?

Answer 1

No it doesn't diminish my experience.
Satan can cause experiences also. If one's experience cannot be backed up by the Bible, it is not of God.

Hope some day you learn. Why work so hard to run from the truth. Are you afraid? Don't be. Read it, believe it or reject it.

Why do non-believers try so hard to belittle Christians? What's the problem?

Answer 2

I agree that we should be willing to learn from the religious experiences of others. But a person can hear and respect the someone else's religious experience without being "swayed" by it or changed. For example, I respect some people's experience of speaking in tongues, but have never spoken in tongues myself, and don't have the same beliefs about it as some. Not all experiences are going to have the same level of authority or validity. They have to measured by other standards.

Answer 3

There is a vast difference between religion and spirituality. Religion is full of rules and constructs created by people. The underlying message is divine, but the manifestation of it in institutions is often perverted.

Spiritual experiences are individual and occur when one learns to be quiet and still, and when one quiets the mind and lives in the present moment.

And how dare you generalize everyone? Do you not recognize that we are individual people and not "all" hypocrites or anything else.

Answer 4

you had me interested until you said "massive hypocrites"

I am not a hypocrite. My faith is strong because I ask the Lord hundreds of questions. I educate myself and therefore have no reason to doubt that my faith is right for me. That doesn't make my argument null and void. I am not a blind sheep passively following the shepherd.... I'm right there beside Him asking what the heck is the deal with life...
He hasn't let me down yet and I don't anticipate it in the future.

Answer 5

No. My answer last time was that the experience of another would only mean that I am not alone in experiencing the supernatural. How would that nullify my own experience or make me a hypocrite?

Answer 6

They matter to me, and I dont mention them very darned often, unless I think it would specifically help someone.
And I think other peoples are valuable, because how they think and feel and act are changed by those experiences.
I dont like people who preach with words, but actions - I have found from personal experience that faith can be caught but not taught.

Answer 7

Everything that happens is filtered through our minds first. Thats the difference between fact and expereince. People rarely expereince anything the same, except for maybe the most basic built in "survial" instincts, like pain, hunger, fear.

Answer 8

No one should base their belief on a so-called religious experience. Your faith should be based on the revealed truth of God.

Answer 9

what does religious experience from one religion to another have to do with believing in ONE GOD???

Answer 10

I can assure you I am not a hypocrite. That is all I understood about your question. May God Bless U.