If you hear God speak you (usually) aren't crazy

[Chronos]

(CNN)—In the Bible, God spoke directly to Abraham. He spoke directly to Moses. He spoke directly to Job. But to your neighbor down the street?

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For the last 10 years, I have been doing anthropological and psychological research among experientially oriented evangelicals, the sort of people who seek a personal relationship with God and who expect that God will talk back. For most of them, most of the time, God talks back in a quiet voice they hear inside their minds, or through images that come to mind during prayer. But many of them also reported sensory experiences of God. They say God touched their shoulder, or that he spoke up from the back seat and said, in a way they heard with their ears, that he loved them. Indeed, in 1999, Gallup reported that 23% of all Americans had heard a voice or seen a vision in response to prayer.

[One Above All]

Let me guess: people who hear da lawd's voice telling them good things are fine, but telling people to kill or harm others is insane.

[stuffin]

Tricky how it ended with MLK getting reassurance from jesus.

[Nick]

Hey, He talks to Pat Robertson and those other TV evangels all the time.  I bet He is giving Pat 2013 predictions as we speak.

[ParkingPlaces]

Lets see. I quit using a cell phone because I got tired of the phantom vibrations, which I knew were not real, but people won't get rid of god, who causes the same type of hallucination. (If you're not familiar with the phenomenon, read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Vibration_Syndrome


Maybe we should charge a high monthly religion fee (paid to me, not churches) and make IM'ing with the lord an additional cost. Then others might do what I did with phones and drop the service.


At least cell phones are real. So I only feel partly crazy. Religious folks keep wanting me to go all the way.

[Nick]

I guess it is only "special" people who God talks to.  I've never heard a peep out of Him.  I would not try for about a month or two.  NFL playoffs are going on now.  God's going to be really busy figuring out who should win each game and then the big one.

[stuffin]

I guess it is only "special" people who God talks to.  I've never heard a peep out of Him.  I would not try for about a month or two.  NFL playoffs are going on now.  God's going to be really busy figuring out who should win each game and then the big one.

I become extremely religious this time of year.
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[jaimehlers]

Lets see. I quit using a cell phone because I got tired of the phantom vibrations, which I knew were not rea

There's such a thing?  I've never had that kind of problem.  The very few occasions that I thought that my cell phone was ringing or vibrating when it wasn't, I correctly identified it as a memory or imagination.