This statement is a cut and paste response from another user. I've seen the intent of it commonly expressed in different forms and in slightly different words but I have never heard a reasonable explanation or a description of exactly how and what and in which way the "reality" of God is expressed.
".. in my reality God is a very real presence .."
If you have your own reality, aren't you a tad nuts? After all, it cannot be denied that we do, all of us, exist in a quite real and shared reality. So how is it different for you as a believer in God? Precisely, what is changed? What effect does God have on reality... on the real and shared reality that we all live in and know?
2007-09-09 23:12:41 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As I've said so many time before, reality doesn't really care what you think. Or what I think. Or what anyone thinks.
That's kind of the whole deal with reality. It's just going to keep on being real, regardless of what anyone has to say.
I think many people confuse their perception of reality with the actuality of reality. Obviously, these things are not the same.
2007-09-09 23:50:09 · answer #1 · answered by marbledog 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you on that. What I think the writer of that statement meant was that people that don't believe in God, live in a different "reality". So saying to them that ".. in my reality God is a very real presence ..", makes sense. I guess, however, that saying "in reality, God is a very real presence" would be a better statement.
2007-09-17 00:27:45 · answer #2 · answered by tauros519 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very simply every person's reality it informed by their own personal experiences, ideas, etc.
Several people can read the same book, see the same movie or watch the same news stories and each person will interpret what they have seen differently.
Everyone may say that "I saw a news story about global warming", but as one person continues to explain what they saw you'll likely find that several other people vehemently deny that person's perception. We all see differently because we all are different.
2007-09-10 06:21:57 · answer #3 · answered by jennette h 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a great question. and there are some interesting replies. I chose to have my own reality based on on knowledge that makes sense to me. I am not a tad nuts. The ones who are a tad nuts are those who believe, blindly, the drivel that priests spew at them. God changes nothing because he exists only in your minds, it is those who believe who change reality, for the worse, I might add.
2007-09-17 22:21:05 · answer #4 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Have you ever heard the saying "wear these shoes" or boots, etc.
I am the only one driving my car. that is my reality. you're in your car, your reality. If we do not collide, we share a separate reality.
When you except God in your life, you see the world differently, because there is a completion that has taken place, one becomes whole.
Everyone has a different view because we are all unique.
Everyone has a different view of a sunrise.
no one breaks in a pair of shoes the same way.
2007-09-10 06:27:11 · answer #5 · answered by Diver Down 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There should be some interesting responses to this, because I commonly see Christians declare that God is "outside reality" when pressed to explain what/who created their creator, since "something can't come from nothing."
2007-09-10 06:18:14 · answer #6 · answered by Zombie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is or has never been, to my knowledge, the subject of a double blind test.
In fact, all measures of "God's Presence" or effect on reality is subjective or involves a "moving frame."
2007-09-17 02:06:13 · answer #7 · answered by smkeller 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your 'shared reality', is a collective hunch at best. Most people find it difficult to share a reality with one person (if they're lucky, they marry that person).
Ben Franklin said, "Everyone is crazy, except me and thee dear, and sometimes I wonder about thee..."
2007-09-11 10:36:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Believers are liars, beliefs change, facts cannot be changed, only reinterpreted for beliefs. Facts are jesus walked, Something makes beauty and horror, and humans fear them both, so they make up beliefs(wives tales) of a god to hand out like a leaflet.
2007-09-10 06:21:03 · answer #9 · answered by bethan 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
My perspective at looking at things changed
2007-09-18 05:13:37 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋