Do you feel  as though you have acquired an understanding of how "God" works that you would like to share?
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wouldnt you have to be god to know haow he thinks, i mean if you knew how he works then you in fact would be god. thats what my cousin always said. tough ima have to think of something, god does everything so everyone gets their karma, so everything he creates has perfect balance, and thats what god is to me perfect balance
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I had a religious Catholic upbringing at home and school, I chose to go to a co-ed state high school instead of a Catholic all-boys one, quickly learned that not everyone has belief in God.\n\nI  went on to University and mixed with every type of person and gradually the religious conditioning began to fade away but I still half believed in God and would never dare say I didn't believe in case I was struck down on the spot.\n\nI took up buddhism for a time and it cleared my head even more. \n\nQuite recently only a few years ago I was aware that all the religious garbage had finally left my head, I felt clear clean and bright and life made sense more than at any time previously, I still feel that way and I can tell you it's great. But it was a long slow and gradual process, not hard work though. \n\nI'm very pleased to be in charge of my own brain instead of having some religious dogma in charge of it. If you are not  controlling your own brain and thoughts somebody else is ...you can be sure of that (and I don't mean God guys).\n\nProblem is my family, and one especially newly fundamentalist sister..she gets very nasty at times and communication is on hold for time being.
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You haven't seen God, yet you want to believe him. What you believe through knowledge is not that powerful. If you believe something by worthy of knowledge then some other type of knowledge will change it. But what you believe by feelings that can only be change when you have some stronger feelings. A feeling is not that one that feels the people of this world. \n\nThese are spiritual feelings, the feeling that is felt by your soul. That feeling is only awakened by enlightenment. When Noor (light) enters in your heart, it creates the feeling of Love. Noor is the feeling for God. Till that feeling the faith and believe in God is established, this is the spirituality. This can not be obtaining by reading books. When the Noor enters in your heart, in order to further strengthen it, you enter in the worship. By repeating the several names of God, by repeating the words, revealed by God upon the heart of prophet. By repeating those words you happen to create light. That light further strengthens the faith and believes in your heart. Your faith and believe will get stronger in accordance with the quantity of Noor in your heart. This all revolves around the quantity of Noor. \nThere are methods and ways to obtain and acquire Noor. The first method is through spirituality.
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No. I believe that it is working exactly as God intended for it to work.\n\nYou see it the way that you do because you have been mislead about the true nature of God and of reality.\n\nLove and blessings Don
91219
Definitely. God can work in and through you in ways that make your life so full and amazing when you ask for, recieve, and cultivate the Holy Spirit in your life!!!!
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I have said this many times to people....i have felt a spiritual connection to many people who i have just met for the first time, and talk to asthough i have known them all my life.....i dont really know what this is but it is very powerful....sometimes i wonder if God is working through them, or me.
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I feel a little arrogant answering this question-- God has given me the gift of grace so all things I do are solely by his power... I feel the most memorable thing I have done is buy a young woman a bus ticket, she wasn't asking for it, she was trying to negotiate with the greyhound guy how to get a ticket to get home, her's was stolen, I was blessed enough to have just enough money in my wallet to buy her some help getting home, she cried\nIt was just paying forward all the things god and my family and friends and even strangers have done for me
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by realising the God within you
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my favorite way to experience God is through a thunderstorm.. seeing that awesome power manifested in lightning and ground shaking thunder is so sweet.. sometimes just quieting my mind and listening to the nature around me and watching the breeze when i'm outside really make me feel at peace.. give it a shot :)\n\np.s. also quieting your thoughts when you pray to Him.. not letting your other thoughts distract you as you commune with Him.. that really makes a difference in my opinion
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I DO!!! This world keeps pulling us down doesn't it! But you know, being on Y! Answers has really helped me, here I can praise and worship God(with some fellow Christians and some none Christians) here I get to share my faith. It's great!!! For me the way I get close to God is listening to some really good music, sit down with my Bible, notepad, and pencil, start reading and write away! It's amazing how much more you notice when you write stuff down. God Bless you sister and hold strong to the faith!!!
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YEAH, AT TIMES I FEEL LIKE I LIVE IN MY OWN WORLD SORROUNDED BY CLONES OF MYSELF...IM QUITE A THINKER YOU KNOW! VERY QURIOUS ABOUT GOD'S CREATIONS, AT TIMES I'D ASK MYSELF IS IT CRAZY TO QUESTION SOME OF THE STUFF AROUND...I THINK IM LOOSING IT NOW...
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Yes. It is important to find out for yourself the truth. I prayed long and hard about what I had been taught from childhood. I studied the scriptures and prayed about them. Then answer I got was the most wonderful feeling that everything I read and was taught was true - I KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is true.
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Yes, I used to have this view of God as being a Judge, always watching, waiting to catch me doing something wrong so to punish me. A basic teaching of most religions. When I decided I would never be good enough and decided to be as bad as I could I learned about God. I learned that he is love and full of grace and forgiveness. I learned that his most admirable quality is is forgiveness. That when I sin, I am hurting him and when I am sorry he is happy.  So while I regret that I took "the wrong way" in a way I am grateful I did as I learned what God is really about.
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absolutely prayer changed everything for me on several occasions.  There have been times when I couldn't find a solution to a problem on my own and by praying about it I found the solution.  I have felt so sinful and then prayed to the God of my understanding and found redemption and forgiveness.  I can feel anxious about something and pray about it and find relief.
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Do you think you are God?  You're not.
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I have been on both sides of this issue. I was raised to believe, but rationally I could not except the idea that God was the judgmental insecure fruitcake my religion portrayed him as.\n\nSo I stopped believing.  Then this happened to me.\n\nSeveral years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away. \n\nWhile driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.\n\nThree days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to. \n\nI feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.\nDuring the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible. \n\nI can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.\n\n I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings. \n\nYour brother don
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There is nothing better than spending time with God,How do you put it into words,he has helped mould me over 30 years into someone he can use.He helps me with my strengths, weaknesses,finances,relationships.To know that he is interested in every aspect of my life blows me away.What a priviledge it is to know him.