I have read here on Y/A and I've been told my many people that they have heard from God. I've heard members of LDS say that God directed them to the Mormon Church, yet others say that through prayer God led them to the JW Church, still some say God showed them the Holy-Spirit in a Pentacostal Church, Baptist etc. I believe these people believe their experience is true. I have heard Atheist say that they honestly prayed for God to reveal himself to them and...ZIP!! I believe them. Still others say when reaching out to God they felt led to be Muslim. All of these believe their experience or NO experience is real and honest.
Would it be logical to conclude at the very least this is confusing?
I'm not looking for answers like: Let the Holy Spirit guide you to "MY" truth and understanding...this is the very point I'm making.
somethings wrong!
2007-03-20 01:37:08 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I agree with you that there is way too much confusion. I've been going to church all of my life and I still have questions. The only thing that people can do, whether you want to hear it or not, is to be lead by the Spirit of God. He is the only One that can show you the light. Literally! Search your heart and read the Bible. Satan is the one that deceives you. And people are not perfect either. Only the Son of God is perfect so take some tips from Him. Start reading the New Testament. It is so beautiful.
2007-03-20 01:44:45 · answer #1 · answered by taurusgreen_82 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
"What's wrong" is a common theme throughout my answers (you may read them if you have the interest). The answer is very simple if you have faith in God's All-Knowing.
The idea that "God is too stupid and ignorant to be "All-Knowing"" is rampant in the Middle Eastern Religions (including those that has all over the World in the past 40 centuries). For instance, what good is a Jesus to an All-Knowing God?
A: Nothing
An All-Knowing God knows ALL long before ALL was there. Therefore, to claim that God needs a redeemer of souls is to equal said same God to being "too stupid to know what He is creating at the time He is creating it".
Or "He is too evil to create something--knowing it's gonna piss Him off, and then turn around and punish it for being exactly how He created it."
So, It would not be logical to conclude as confusing that an ALL-Knowing God would create people with the full Knowledge to practice various religions.
2007-03-20 01:56:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Everyone likes to be right... and instinctively, everyone wants to be the exclusive holder of the right to rightness.... so to speak. Its all fine and well being correct, but it isn't worth as much if everyone else is too. Better rather for everyone else to be wrong, making yourself better and them worse....
It is all linked intuitively into the biological imperitive.... the constant struggle for supremacy that is nature.... to live longer and produce more and stronger offspring than everyone else.... The biological need to be the common ancestor of the whole future population.
The rest is just details.... It doesn't matter which church or religion it is really. If it claims a person first, tells them what they want to hear.... tells them that they're right and everyone else is wrong..... well.... That suits the instinct just fine.
As for me...
Well, I believe only in that which even the christians would agree god did not make: Nothingness..... the Nihil.
All the garbage people preach distracts from the realisation that existence itself is mere triviality... that its "reality" is insubstancial and transient.... thoroughly irrelevant. I have seen that even the biological imperitive itself is ridiculously cyclic in its reasoning.... ultimately pointless and not worth following when I gain no personal and individual satisfaction from it.
Nothingness will eventually consume all things... all static concepts. It is undeniable... indubitable.... All gives way to nothing..... and I am a herald of that nothingness.... a harbinger of the Nihil....
Rather that than live a lie.... a hypocrite....
2007-03-20 01:54:19 · answer #3 · answered by Nihilist Templar 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you that if there does exist a God, then I can't imagine all of these various religions being true, because they all teach such contradictory things. If God was true, and all these religions were true, then it would make God a God of confusion and one that doesn't seem to loving, because of the confusion he causes us.
Having said that, religion is also a personal thing. It is based on faith, without little objective evididence or proof. Because of the individual nature of religion each person finds their own truths, which truths cannot be disputed (well, they can, but because it is a personal, faith based, witness, I can't imagine them budging). It likely the case that most, if not all, religions contain truths. Many have likely been altered by mankind. But this is for the individual to find out. Determining which religion is correct for you isn't, and shouldn't be easy. I have studied hundreds of religions from the horses mouth, attended services, etc. and have concluded for me what I beleive to be true, which included receiving an undeniable witness from God. Could myself or someone else receive a false witness? Of course, but it remains the responsibility of the individual to weed through that. Because of this personal nature of religion we should all respect each other regardless of beliefs and be willing to discuss our differences without offense or vile. Just my thoughts.
2007-03-20 08:11:48 · answer #4 · answered by straightup 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that to truly hear or feel God that you don't have to go to church. When a person is in turmoil or confused some tend to reach out to God for convert and understanding. Each person would "hear" something different. As long as a person has faith, (even atheist have faith that there is no God) they receive what they are looking for. This is only my opinion.
2007-03-20 01:58:31 · answer #5 · answered by me2you 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Anyone....Anyone, that makes the statement that they have seen or heard God, will be immediately labeled as insane. If one would see or heard God himself he would be blinded by the light and deafened by the voice of God. Not one person has EVER claimed to see or hear God, not even Moses. A burning bush, a disembodied voice, a flash of lightning, thunder, erupting volcano, and so on....maybe, but never the real thing. Those who claim to hear or know God are just stating that they have seen and heard signs their faith or churches have told them ... it was God. I believe God is there..in your mind and heart...Conscience. You know God when you stand with a mind that is strong, wise and harmonic, not weak, gullible and confused.
I agree....somethings wrong.
2007-03-20 01:55:59 · answer #6 · answered by twostories 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
actual!!! It replace into something greater formal, yet I used to speak to Him besides the fact that the explanation and because I stored forward to my own ambition and desires, while He gave me avertisements I stored none and did my way going into further and extra trubles! Into an end, interior of a deep depresion, He stored my life (!!!) the very 2nd I left away of all my deep desires... There, empty coronary heart, i replace into crammed with God's mild and Peace and Love - an entire New life, a clean physique, a clean imaginative and prescient over the final and the destiny :) :) :) sure, he's my Saviour!!!
2016-10-19 03:54:54 · answer #7 · answered by balick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that GOD speaks to us in many different ways. GOD has and can use anything he wants to speak to us. He can use his word, people, the world around us,whatever it take for him to get our attention. GOD speaks loud and clear. We just choose not to listen because it may be something we don't like to do or are not comfortable doing. Also the devil can talk to us to. What he says contradicts GOD's word. If you believe you are being lead to do something check GOD's word and ask him to give you a sign of confirmation to show that he is talking to you. He will prove himself every time.
Malachi 3:10 "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."
2007-03-20 02:35:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it just depends on your belief and religious affiliation. Most of the time when you do not belong to a particular religious group, it is very difficult and confusing to understand the doctrines in that religion. This is so because most of the time the doctrines you believe in are contrary to others. Even if you belong to the same religion say Christianity, the teaching from most Christian churches apart from the orthodox churches such as Catholic and Methodist churches. From my belief, God reveals himself in so many ways and directs our paths as such. You however have to bear it in mind that some people exaggerate in such matters. Just believe and trust him. When you read his words from the Holy Bible, you will know how he works in mysterious ways. Hope i helped to clear you mind.
2007-03-20 01:55:12 · answer #9 · answered by arabs 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
As a Jehovah's Witness, I've never actually "heard" God speak to me or direct me anywhere. True, God's Holy Spirit - or active force - does work in ways to direct his righteous ones to his word - the bible. He answers prayers through the use of his Holy Spirit and his angels on many occassions.
Hope the link in source can help you with this one a little.
2007-03-20 01:42:37 · answer #10 · answered by ♥LadyC♥ 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋