Hi everyone,
doppelganger wanted to know what have one perceives during a vision of god.
So for instance, what do(es) god(s) look like?
what does it sound like? Is there a voice?
do you feel a presence?
A touch?
Please be as specific as possible. Also, please state the belief type you feel...
What do you say we restrict this to your deity kinds of Gods, like Christianity. Help me out here people with Willamena's question:
I defined a "vision of God" as:
-waking
-sober, perceived from a normal state
-not perceived materially through normal five senses
-literal and direct (not just a...
My background is in philosophy of science and epistemology.
There are very few non-theists who have had a vision of God and who continue to be a non-theist. I am the only one I know. I'm starting to wonder if I'm completely alone.
So, that's why I'm asking: Have any of you ever had a "vision...
Hi everybody, thank you for all your thought, hard work, and efforts. I really appreciate your responses. Let's look and see what people said.
Only one atheist tried by PM, so this will be an analysis of the response of theists.
So to recap, I asked theists to try "seeing God" in a number of...
It all began when I took Comparative Anthropology and was introduced to the concept of "cultural relativism." Ever since then, the notion that one religious group of people whoever has the truth, and everyone else is wrong or less right has always been hateful to me.
A few years earlier, I, a...
I said to a Christian once: "we don't need scriptures. The word of God is written in our hearts, we need to study our hearts."
And he said, "oh that's a Gnostic position."
I said, I guess I'm a Gnostic then. What is going on? Is Christian Guy (CG) right here?
CV
- I will preface this post by saying that I am not christian, I am not sure God exists. But I have had epiphanic visions of God before, I just can't be sure that they're true.
I think it's kind of funny when people who have never had a religious experience say, "I don't believe in God."
Now...
I think the position that "every religion is true" is a very defensible one. But alas, many of its defenders do not defend it well. The relativists seem to say that there is one truth for each person. Other say that every world religion holds a grain of truth.
But this sort of thinking seems to...
A request for society at large:
Have you ever noticed how discussions about "religion" in our culture are at heart discussions about Christianity? Granted, Christianity is the biggest religious force in the Western world, an enormous historical force, and has made some big mistakes. But there's...
One day, about three months ago, some wall in me apparently broke. All of a sudden, from that day forward, almost out of my control, I started telling people how I felt. I was just thinking out loud. It felt great. I also felt terrible every time I didn't say something that was on my mind. I...
I have two experiments running.
To know which experiment to help me with, please answer the following question:
Have you ever had a "vision of God." Put simply, has anything resembling what Judeo-Christians call God, or a similar presence, ever appeared to you.
If yes, please read and...
Hi Everybody,
I am the Purple Knight. I've been posting on other forums about religious issues. I'm used to people being very accepting and nice about my crazy beliefs, so I'm really hoping I will find more of the same here.
I would call myself an epistemologist of religion, as that is my main...