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As could everything I say.
My experiences are real to me. If I feel sad, I know I am sad. If I feel happy, I am quite certain I am happy. If I see a rock, I am sure I've seen a rock. If I feel the Holy Spirit, I am quite sure I've felt the Holy Spirit. If I were to ever hear the voice of God, I would know it.
Anybody see the terrible, egotistical, triumphal -- excessively un-Christ-like -- smugness in that?;
Then you might want to look up things like anosognosia, or any of the other ways in which it is well-known that our own brains can completely mislead us. Dr. Oliver Sacks (died just this year, actually, and the neuroscientist featured in the film Awakenings with Robin Williams. You would be hugely surprised by just how easily our human brain can be completely bamboozled. So "real to me" is something I hear claimed frequently, but it is usually not enough to exonerate the woman accused of drowning her children because "Satan told me to, and it was real to me."
Is this REALLY how Christians see God? That, as @Sonofason says, if somebody doesn't start from a position of "belief" the "Holy Spirit" will muddle everything so that they'll never be able to "discern?" Is this some kind of evil God game? Was King Lear right when he said: "As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods. They kill us for their sport?"
God has tried to reach you, and you rejected Him. There is sufficient evidence of God all around you...and you reject it. You reject Him. Yes, that's the way it is. That stuff gets people in Hell, but you'll find out all about that soon.
Me too
Yet disapproval is how medical diagnosis works a lot of times.
You can buy very realistic-looking plastic rocks. Some of them have a little hole to hide a spare key.
If you're talking about cases like Andrea Yates: if we take some very mainstream Christian doctrines as given, her crime is very logical and selfless. There are literally millions of Christians who would agree that by killing her children before they reached the "age of reason", she guaranteed that they would go to Heaven and that they would be saved them from the possibility that they'd go to Hell.
I Can't say that I am hopeful, But I think it will be one of the greatest discoveries we have made so far.
You appear to be
No he isn't. He believes gods don't exist. A gnostic atheist (or gnostic strong atheist) knows with 100% certainty. That's the whole point of writing gnostic in front you see.
No he doesn't necessarily believe it can't possibly be known. He just doesn't know.
Those would be gnostic atheists.
It isn't. The distinction is that a weak atheist has an absence of belief in gods while a strong atheist has a belief gods don't exist. If the belief that gods don't exist grows to 100% conviction we call him a gnostic atheist.
Who? Please read: https://askanatheist.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/334/
"All those who say “God told me,” are dangerous." ... "The ubiquitous rabble of “God told me” that we keep hearing so much in America, is both extremely evil and dangerous. If you really believe that God is talking to you, then you esteem yourself a prophet, one who has a salvation that cannot be taken away. With this mindset one could commit all sorts of evils, and think nothing of it because God is with them, they are a “prophet,” a mouthpiece for God."
Can you give one example of a piece of evidence for God that's "all around us" and explain how it implies that God exists?
