[Thread title: How do you know when God is speaking to you]
For me it is almost like my own voice in my head, like when you are thinking to yourself, only I can tell the difference between my voice in my head or the holy spirits voice. His word says I know my sheep and they know me, they know my voice. Usually when I have been praying or talking to God then I will get a thought or almost like a conversation in my "spirit" or mind I guess. It's hard to explain when it is something that you just "know". But it is definately different than just thinking thoughts for yourself, sometimes it is very powerful and sometimes it is very subtle.
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I always thought that for an omnipotent creator of the universe, god's methods of communication are extremely inefficient bordering on plain crap. If he wants to tell you stuff, why doesn't he just come out and say it??? What's with all the telepathy???
I'm always amused how the xians never take offense to being called "sheep". They don't seem to realize that, to a shepherd, the only thing sheep are good for is food, fleecing, and fucking.
Tell me, is this the way Gawd speak to GWB? If so, think again. Those voices in the head got America in deep doo=doo in Iraq. Some Gawd, Some voice, some doo-doo!
EPII's failproof test to see if God is REALLY speaking to you... try a course of lithium under psychiatric care... if, after a period of a month or so, you are STILL hearing voices claiming to be God, and their intonation and nature of their directives has not changed... well then you have a case for supernatural communication.
Of course, determining the identity of the supernatural entity telling you what to do is another matter... personally I suspect the KGB/illuminati with their mind satelites directing us all to buy amway...
Either you need to go to the doctor because you suffer from squizofrenia or, at best, you haven't answered the question(after all, how do you know it's God and not your subconsciousness?)
Honestly, I don't feel God speaks to people like that. God isn't like a person; God can't exactly communiate by 'saying' things to you. I always find that it's something I feel in my soul. Or, whatever. I can't explain it, because it's not really something you can explain...
Watching and Waiting: that's not God you're hearing.
If you're actually hearing strange voices in your head that aren't your own, and you feel compelled to obey them, you may have a serious medical problem that requires treatment.
This isn't me being snarky. Seek help. Please.
See, that's always been my problem. Everyone talks about God talking to them, but in the end, it's their voice. I waited forever for God to talk to me. I guess he didn't have anything to say.
I have experienced what he's talking about (hint - it's not an auditory hallucination). When I was a born-again teenager, I thought it was God talking to me. When I experimented with shamanism, I thought it was my spirit guide talking to me. Eventually I realized that it was my own subconscious producing those thoughts and putting them into the form I expected.
I thought god was singing to me when I woke up the other morning.
I was about to rejoice and abandon my miserable immoral atheistic lifestyle forever - then I realized I'd fallen asleep with the radio on.
Can ones mind be conditioned to schizophrenia by willful desire? We all have the "other voice", more of a secoundary unconcious thought process that periodically will sort out something without you being consciously thinking about it.
The best example, in my case anyway, is trying to remember a persons name or a place and being unable to pull it up from my memory. I've learned to quit trying and change the subject or go on without the answer, in under five minutes my brain subconciously will access the memory and report it to my aware mind. This could be refered to as a voice as I will mentally hear the answer.
Now, people who believe in fictional dietys or demons will call that inside voice God or perhaps a demon or another person within. This could encourage them to allow those restricted or inner thoughts out to manifest themselves as functional consious personalities whereas the rest of us, under no such allusions restrict our baser desires or deviant thoughts.
Are those who believe in Supernatural forces more likely to become schizophrenic? Would it explain why those who claim strong religious belief, such as Evangelistic preachers, preists in general and a large number of Right-Wing Republicans are revealed to be exactly the opposite in behavior as they claim to be?
And, amazingly enough, god agrees with every single opinion, every prejudice and every snarky impulse you have.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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