God Talks to me

Winty

If a person talks to God, the Church welcomes them as a believer, If God talks back they are paranoid Schizophrenic ??

Discuss

MrPudding

I don't think that is strictly true. many people would say that god speaks to them, and they are not locked up. Nor are they generally accused of being mentally ill, in fact, they will get quite annoyed if mental illness is even hinted at.

MrP

Zombrex

Winty wrote: »

If a person talks to God, the Church welcomes them as a believer, If God talks back they are paranoid Schizophrenic ??

Discuss

Doesn't it depend on what God says to you?

The Church has accepted that lots of people have heard God talk to them, but they normally compare it to scripture. If God is telling you to shoot John Lennon people might not think that is God

chozometroid

Winty wrote: »

If a person talks to God, the Church welcomes them as a believer, If God talks back they are paranoid Schizophrenic ??

Discuss

I don't know if either statement on its own is even held as true by anyone, so combining them doesn't help things at all. These are very generic seemingly rhetorical questions.

partyguinness

Richard Dawkins et al posed that question years ago.

Well then God would be a great excuse in Court for doing a whole range of things...:D

Turtwig

It's a bit like modern physics : It's hard to distinguish the sincere stuff from the downright crackpot.

People will just follow their intuition until reason says otherwise.:)

partyguinness

God does not exist so how could it talk back to you...therefore you are crazy.

That is the elephant in the room..

JimiTime

partyguinness wrote: »

God does not exist so how could it talk back to you...therefore you are crazy.

That is the elephant in the room..

Isn't there a bridge you are supposed to be under?

antiskeptic

JimiTime wrote: »

Isn't there a bridge you are supposed to be under?

That's not trolling JT, trolling involves a certain amount of artistry.

partyguinness

That simple statement is actually too simple and too much for you to digest therefore I should have wrapped it up in some humanist rubbish for you..My bad...

Trolling?

I have given my interpretation and a reasonable explanation for the question posed by the OP which is more than you have contributed.

What is your explantion?

Yes the elephant in the room indeed...:rolleyes:

PDN

Thread locked while I reach into my yellow card drawer.