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Originally Posted by Brianna
I've had many spiritual/metaphysical experiences in my life and while experiencing them they seemed very, very real (feeling god's love, "eureka"-type thoughts about life, love, the universe, etc. and SPECIFIC answers to prayerful questions all count for me as spiritual experiences)
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they ARE! Isn't that feeling GREAT?!
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but after the magic of the experience wears off--I wonder if it was real or something I made up.
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Why do you wonder? Why can't it be God? He made the whole universe and everything in it in 6 days, why is it out of his power to give you a revelationatory experience?
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I think sustaining the enormity of the experience is near to impossible but essential to growth and to knowing God. I wish I had more faith. I wish I could sustain those experiences and learn MORE from them. I wish I believed.
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You've had an experience that no one can explain. Other people have them all the time. The believers nod knowingly and understand, the skeptics shake their heads and say words like "delusional" "hallucinations" and "ignorant".
In the movie contact, the scientist asks the theologian, "How can you be sure it isn't just self-delusion?" He says, "Did you love your father?" She replies, "Yes, very much." He looks at her and quietly says, "Prove it."