You can refer to my post on "Slain in the spirit" further down somewhere on this section of the forum..
I've heard this so many times! That God is some mean-ass!
Actually. Consider this. The bible says God is love right? Now God is love, and he's the Giving force.That is his nature. Anything against his nature is SIN. He is holy and cannot take sin. Now think about it. Can hate CREATE anything other than destruction? Only love really builds and creates. For e.g, if we really didn't want to cook dinner, we would probably do a bad job of it right? But If we LOVED to cook dinner, wouldn't we make an awesome 5 star meal? The bible says God made humans "in his likeness", and we are "beautifully and wonderfully made".
The reason God made us is so he can love us and we can love him back. The bible describes the Garden of Eden as a Kickass place. Adam and Eve were the prince and princess of earth, all they did was laze about, explore the world and have sex all day. (I kid you not, God made all that for us to enjoy!)
You know guys, since I know how the presence of God feels like... I can tell you one thing CLOSE (but still far off) to it is being out in nature. Why? Cause you can see the works of his hand. You can look at the mountains and marvel at it. You can look at your pet dog and marvel at it, for it was made to be a companion. Or a horse, which was made just to ride on
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Stuff like that.
Unfortunately, from the first time humans disobeyed God (Adam was given the choice of eating the fruit or not) we were separated from his glory. It means, we can't hear him no more, not the same way birds and other animals can hear his command. (Scientists say it is "instinct" that makes birds fly and animals move the way they do.)
Now, I'm a medical student right... and...(MEDICAL ESTP STUDENT WHOO!) I have never failed to look in awe at my anatomy and physiology textbook of 1300 pages, and marvel at stuff like "scientists are still researching the purpose of the ganglion", "scientists have erred and discovered calcitonin is also produced in the thymus".... Science in fact, is just a study of how things in the world are. They have tried to figure out what light is and changed their classification of it over 13 times! But they still have no idea what it is that makes our body move. Could it be... a soul? What keeps the soul alive? What are emotions? Are they are response to something? What is the feeling... of guilt? Joy?
You know, we have 100 billion neurons in our head!! Indeed we are wonderfully and beautifully made. HOW DARE SOCIETY tell us we are nothing more than monkeys, and then blame men for the destruction we have caused for not acting as "men"!! That is why, many people, including children, wake up feeling "empty". God takes your soul to be more important than your physical body. Your soul has a HP bar, and life beats you up all the time! That is why you have to go back to your manufacturer for a fix. That is why, we crazy people praise God when things are going badly. Cos he's gonna pull us outta trouble and we KNOW it! (He always pretends he's not there!!) I yell at God all the time and say: I KNOW YOU THERE! I pull out my guitar and sing God love songs
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He has NEVER failed me!
I'll tell you abit about my family. I have a half sister 1o years older, and she lived with us in my father's house most of her life, rather uncomfortably, till she got married. My father and I hardly talked to each other for 10 years. I went back to Singapore last year and told my Dad, who I hadn't seen in a long while I'd become a Christian. He isn't, so he asked me alot of questions, and then finally he said "Don't get too involved in religion" So I said "No Dad, it's not that. I tell you its true I love God. Do you think it's possible to love 'air'" And he was so funny, he was like "Yea! I say its possible to love air." Then I said "But it's hard enough to love a human. So how do you love air".
And Mum told me Dad said on his armchair for a really long time thinking about it. Cos indeed, I can't say that he can love my half sister till today.
The other popular question is "But God made HELL! he wants to stuff us in a curry pot!" Hell is described as a place for those who cannot come near God anymore! It was first formed for the devil, who was an angel who wanted to overthrow God. You see, anyone who wants power for his own cannot possibly be the ruler of this world (very scary thought). God is a giving force, the devil cannot give. So its, to hell with the devil. But why do humans go to hell too? Cos you had free will and you were the one who said you didn't wanna follow God! You can tell whose your master, God or the devil and you yourself will know... ( Ok maybe I will start another thread on this it is very hard to explain something of such Eternal consequences within a paragraph)
My university, the University of Melbourne, has started an interesting study called "Christian Spiritual experiences". So far, they have discovered that some Christians have never touched God either but believe in "faith".
Actually, it depends you know. I have had a non Christian friend who told me she has felt that "great love and peace settle on her" once. She said she cried. So she knows theres a God she says she hadn't sought out which one.
You know, I went to one for 1/2 a year since I decided Christ must be real last year and all the speaker did was put me to sleep. (But many I have a short attention span) So I went to Planetshakers and...
@_@ Whoa. You can feel him everytime in a crowd of people who love him! Best, you can hear him too!
The bible says: "Draw near to God and he will draw near to you". I like being near him
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Very, very much so. To the Christians reading this: If you think you don't hear God, but you've been baptized in the Holy Spirit, you do hear him alright. Keep it up, praying in tongues etc, and you will come to recognize his voice more and more! You will, oh you so will. And when you know him well enough, God speaks to you very casually too! One time I was just playing Frozen Throne when I should have been studying, and he was like "GET ON WITH YOUR WORK". I was like O.O And how many of us know our God is a funny guy! CHEERS! AMEN.