When You Hear God Speak to You Personally
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
March 9, 2018 8:17am CST
First of all, No 
God doesn't 'just sit down and talk to you like a visiting friend or a trusted counselor.'
Oh, lots of ministers and Bible-teachers and pastors etc. often give you 'simple statements' that they say "God told them"; but those statements are really the results of hours-&-hours & days-&-days of prayer/meditation. And--if you pray/meditate with The Bible & Christian ministers regularly--'formulating God's message' will start to seem like second-nature to you.
(Buddhism does it by knowing that 'what we think of as God's Voice' is really just more like "what makes people think they have to do things," making 'God's True Voice' "things that people do & successfully continue to do." i.e. If you try something and it works for everyone's good, it must be 'what God said!'
((And I know that "Buddhism doesn't believe in God"; but some literature Soka Gakkai International http://www.sgi-usa.org/basics-of-buddhism/ gave me broke down the meaning of their prime 'mantra' (common saying, like Christianity's "in Jesus' name, Amen") to 'hearing- & acting on-the Divine Voice.' Maybe Buddhists are fine with 'a voice not having a source'; but I was raised Christian, so I have to know that the only "divine" thing is God 
))
But if you think you hear God 'just talking to you like he's right there in the room with you,' that's called "auditory hallucination" (most-commonly known as "schizophrenia"). That's why people repeat THE LIE that "The Bible is the word of God": because the TRUE word of God is secret between God & each believer; the FAKE word of God is given publicly so the people don't worry that God will tell you to do something stupid.
(The Bible is the OLD word of God, and we 'have faith' that God will be 'faithful' to the promises we like; but we can't "hold him to it"---"It is the gift of God lest any man should boast.")
God doesn't 'just sit down and talk to you like a visiting friend or a trusted counselor.'
Oh, lots of ministers and Bible-teachers and pastors etc. often give you 'simple statements' that they say "God told them"; but those statements are really the results of hours-&-hours & days-&-days of prayer/meditation. And--if you pray/meditate with The Bible & Christian ministers regularly--'formulating God's message' will start to seem like second-nature to you.
(Buddhism does it by knowing that 'what we think of as God's Voice' is really just more like "what makes people think they have to do things," making 'God's True Voice' "things that people do & successfully continue to do." i.e. If you try something and it works for everyone's good, it must be 'what God said!'
((And I know that "Buddhism doesn't believe in God"; but some literature Soka Gakkai International http://www.sgi-usa.org/basics-of-buddhism/ gave me broke down the meaning of their prime 'mantra' (common saying, like Christianity's "in Jesus' name, Amen") to 'hearing- & acting on-the Divine Voice.' Maybe Buddhists are fine with 'a voice not having a source'; but I was raised Christian, so I have to know that the only "divine" thing is God ))
But if you think you hear God 'just talking to you like he's right there in the room with you,' that's called "auditory hallucination" (most-commonly known as "schizophrenia"). That's why people repeat THE LIE that "The Bible is the word of God": because the TRUE word of God is secret between God & each believer; the FAKE word of God is given publicly so the people don't worry that God will tell you to do something stupid.
(The Bible is the OLD word of God, and we 'have faith' that God will be 'faithful' to the promises we like; but we can't "hold him to it"---"It is the gift of God lest any man should boast.")6 people like this
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
9 Mar 18
I was visited by god (old guy with white beard, I call him the collective human subconscious) in a dream when I was in college. He sat down on my bed and we talked. He did most of the talking, but the conversation was profound and meaningful. Basically that humanity was going in the wrong direction overall, and to correct the future, religion (all religion) should be destroyed to liberate their minds.
Generally, a belief system is fine, but when you take it to crazy devote following... you need to chill out a bit.
Every now and then I'll get a message while I'm awake, but it's like telepathy. It's in my head and not in the real world. The last one was almost two years ago, telling me that I had achieved spiritual balance.
Many people are convinced that he was an agent of evil and not who I thought, but what good is religion to humanity? No good. None at all. It only causes trouble. What sensible being would possibly endorse it?
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
9 Mar 18
Good thing God has nothing to do with religion!
Religion is rooted in 'Legalism' (or 'According to the Written Records'). It's basically a group of people who gather to review a collection of writings---in most religions, it's a collection of writings 'about the agreed-upon deity.'
Tho if you ignore that 'being about a supernatural-entity'-bit, most countries (states, cities, etc.) are a form of 'religion!'
And they are "good to humanity" for the peace that comes with 'knowing that there are rules that everyone agrees to follow.'
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
9 Mar 18
@mythociate If it's a form of legalism, with rules and such to follow, we already have that in laws. People who follow laws are doing so for their own freedom, and not necessarily because they believe in the laws in place.
I know a lot of religions set up important guidelines for people in the beginning, which is why the Jewish tradition prohibits the consumption of pork (trichinosis) and shellfish (various risks), because they were dangerous at the time. However, now that the danger has passed, they still follow those guidelines.
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
10 Mar 18
Morgan, I agree with you 100%. Many people with religious beliefs have done a great deal of good in the world, but there has also been tremendous harm done by people who have claimed a religious motive. I am absolutely sure that the balance of harm against good has gone the wrong way - good people would still be good if they did not have a church to go to!
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
13 Mar 18
I think many people confuse creative inspiration with the voice of God, - I think many believers don't literally hear Jesus talking to them, which would seem to be an audio-hallucination. - Not all Buddhists are atheists though the majority are
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
18 Oct 18
Well, Buddhists are atheists in a way similar to the way Christians are (e.g. not believing in any god but the 'Our Heavenly Father'-one). Buddhists--especially Nichiren Buddhists--believe Buddhas hear 'the Divine Voice' (I call it 'the voice of God') and pay heed to it when they act & speak---aware that sometimes they have to REact-&-REspond to worldly things before they can carry out the Divine Instructions.
Sometimes they regard Buddhas Themselves as gods, but that's mostly just 'as those Buddhas stay faithful to "The Lotus Sutra" nam-myoho-renge-kyo
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
19 Oct 18
@arthurchappell "inspiration"---interesting word choice, as that is how (according to "Genesis") Our Father gave life to the sculpture he formed
(off on a tangent: I take my entire definition of "spirit," "soul," and "body" from that one verse (KJV translation, that translates 'living being' as 'living soul')---I see that we are a clay-body, breathed-into by Holy Spirit; and that entire form is 'the soul.' It "grinds my gears" that "preachers" claim that we are 'independent beings' who HAVE bodies, spirits & souls (like they are three separate things 
).)
Anyway, did you mean something different by 'inspiration'? something like 'neuro-mutation & adaptation' (where your brain does something random, your body likes the random formation & encourages itself to repeat that accidental trick, and you start doing it regularly)?
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Anyway, did you mean something different by 'inspiration'? something like 'neuro-mutation & adaptation' (where your brain does something random, your body likes the random formation & encourages itself to repeat that accidental trick, and you start doing it regularly)?
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
18 Oct 18
@mythociate again there may be a misunderstanding of creative mental inspiration
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
16 Oct 18
It's so simple, but hard for so many to understand or receive, that a couple of old world superstitions were translated into the bible via old world steeped translators. Because of it, and how it is taught, and how human nature has a tendency to run with things anyway.. Important truth revealing verses like "God is the savior of all" (1Tim4:10) and how Jesus said He will draw all to Him, Jn12:32. And so many more.. have become invisible! I could go on and on, but I won't. :)
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
14 Mar 18
Yes, yes I would.
Most Bible-stories that claim that 'God said this-or-that' are probably actually saying 'what God must've been saying (according to all the events that then happened).'
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
14 Mar 18
@Bluedoll You know how sometimes you'll have to 'talk things out' or 'write them down' to clarify a situation to yourself or others? (you'll ask yourself something, propose an answer, give yourself reasons why that answer's right-or-wrong) I think that's what was actually going on in the conversations you're thinking-of.
(I might 'rewrite The Bible'--ghostwriting it under God's name--and title it "Conversations with Myself: God Writes the Bible."
If God wrote the Bible, why didn't it write it so that 2,000 yrs people could understand it. Why did he use metaphors that people can't relate to so long after he wrote the book? Why not just be clear? What is he, DaVinci?
@Bluedoll (16774)
• Canada
14 Mar 18
@mythociate so I'll assume you think for example that Abraham for was schizophrenic? What about prayer? When Jesus Christ prayed silently himself to his heavenly Father, do you also think that prayer would be delusional?
I do believe that the bible was written by men but in one manner or another God did have something to do with mankind even if we call it inspiration. I also believe in angels and what it says in the bible about messengers.
It is easy to stand back and make assumptions about spiritual things and I'll agree with you on that much.
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
9 Mar 18
I have come to the conclusion that what many people think is "God" is a product of their own brain, or a form of self-deception. That applies even to those who do not hear "voices" in John of Arc or Prophet Samuel style - who are the schizophrenics that you refer to.
The worst mistake that people make is to imagine that what is "in here" is in fact "out there" - that is the biggest delusion of all.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
9 Mar 18
but 'what's in here' doesn't stop existing if its different from 'what is out there' ... they're both "real" to one person, but the 'in here'-reality isn't "real" to anyone else
@aninditasen (15719)
• Raurkela, India
12 Mar 18
It's not exactly talking, something is communicated to you suddenly whether good or bad. It happens with me.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
13 Mar 18
Good that you see that. I guess we need to remember that; whenever someone says, "God told me ...," what they're really saying is 'I interpreted this situation as a message: ..." 
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@Hannihar (129379)
• Israel
9 Mar 18
No, I do not see G-d right in front of me but He is there and He answers us when He is ready to. I believe in Him and know He is there and hears what I have to say.
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
9 Mar 18
"hears what I have to say" ... pshh, just like parents hear 'what their crying infant has to say.'
The truth is that--while G-d "understands what you say to him"--G-d knows better than you what your problems are.
Your thoughts/prayers do not change God's will for you, they only change 'your understanding.'
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@Hannihar (129379)
• Israel
11 Mar 18
@mythociate
So true How to Get Back to Living.
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