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Old 10-23-2021, 08:20 AM
 
Location: Michigan, Maryland-born
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How do you know you are communicating with God when you pray? You could just be talking to yourself in your mind. Prayer is merely operating at the subjective level. While chimps may not have the ability to form their own religious truths due to level of intelligence they have been observed performing the same rituals over and over again.
During expectant waiting, you just know and can feel it in your inner being. God doesn't talk with "words" during expectant waiting. Jesus is amazing.
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Old 10-23-2021, 08:35 AM
 
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You arent getting it.

God created male and female in the same body, the male is the spirit, and these two were covered by the most beautiful creature and the 3 were one.



Actually, you are absolutely right, though for completely wrong proof, you provided.
But that is in reference not to humans. The Conscious Self is neither male no female and has no sexual organs. It has mind of Desire, which is male aspect and mind of Feeling, which is the female aspect. 2 in 1. Then there is Body mind, to operate its perfect body. So you can look at it as three in one if you wish.

Or, minds of Feeling and Desire are in the Consciousness, or The Light of Intelligence. You can look at it as three in one that way.
In general, various Trinities are known to humanity for times indescribable. It's nothing new in Christianity. They just tailored what been known before to their dogma.
It's when that eternal perfect entity "drops down" to a physical world and physical body (dust of earth) it manifests either as female or male, depending, which aspect of the mind is prevalent. Or, both. Or, various prevalence of one over the other.



And folks, please. If god is a spirit and has no body, will you kindly stop referring to it as HE?
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Old 10-23-2021, 09:36 AM
 
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During expectant waiting, you just know and can feel it in your inner being. God doesn't talk with "words" during expectant waiting. Jesus is amazing.
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Old 10-23-2021, 11:25 AM
 
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During expectant waiting, you just know and can feel it in your inner being. God doesn't talk with "words" during expectant waiting. Jesus is amazing.
Why wait? He never left.
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Old 10-23-2021, 02:49 PM
 
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Why wait? He never left.
I believe she is referring to her waiting to connect with Him as in meditation or prayer.
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Old 10-23-2021, 08:41 PM
 
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Why wait? He never left.
Of course Jesus never leaves us.



Expectant waiting is a chance to calm down your heart and still your mind and try to connect with and communicate with Jesus/God.
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Old 10-24-2021, 12:21 PM
 
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Of course Jesus never leaves us.



Expectant waiting is a chance to calm down your heart and still your mind and try to connect with and communicate with Jesus/God.
Yuppers ...

But why the literal stuff? Why is something that counters observation like "literally rose from the dead" needed?

God, whatever it is, is there. Why do we need the magic to separate us?
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Old 10-24-2021, 01:59 PM
 
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In His image to me: I think of the ability to create ..with the mind, our will, our words and our imagination.
I think of at our core is Light.
I think of our ability to see vast vistas; expanding our awareness to understand extraordinary things
by using our Inner Eye in silence.
I think of our ability to love with a self sacrificing bleeding/burning heart and to have unquenchable compassion.

I think of the fact that our brains have the ability to store approx 3 millions years of information;
since we have 100 trillion neurons, like trees ...each able to grow 70,000 more nerve-'branches' to store and store and store information.
Ref: Dr. Caroline Leaf
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Old 10-25-2021, 05:57 AM
 
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During expectant waiting, you just know and can feel it in your inner being. God doesn't talk with "words" during expectant waiting. Jesus is amazing.
Muslims have told me about this same exact feeling you describe yet they do not believe in Jesus. Seems to me if God were to exist and he does communicate with you that your choice of religion is irrelevant. Spirituality must be distinguished from religion—because people of every faith, and of none, have had the same sorts of spiritual experiences.
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Old 10-25-2021, 08:53 AM
 
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Muslims have told me about this same exact feeling you describe yet they do not believe in Jesus. Seems to me if God were to exist and he does communicate with you that your choice of religion is irrelevant. Spirituality must be distinguished from religion—because people of every faith, and of none, have had the same sorts of spiritual experiences.
That is because it is all the SAME God! What we flawed and fallible human beings believe or think about God has nothing to do with who or what God IS.
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