How can anyone have a "personal relationship" with an invisible abstraction (that is, 'God')?

[Petr87]

She looks like she's on drugs.

Christians say this quite often, and sometimes they even seem to be proud about it, but I just don't understand how it's even conceivable, because it makes absolutely no sense to me. How does it work?

I agree with the second half of that sentence.

[Dіldophobe]

Fug around and find out. God is not taught with papers and pens. I fully agree with the quote, and another joke "the devil's favourite place to hide is in the church."

This is not a generic troll nonsense @perverted_creep's quote:

Why bother trying to understand how some stranger buys exoteric gatekeep religion, when you can get to the core, the occulted spiritual truth, that all religions hide in common?

For one, the holy trinity doesn't describe the creator that existed before the universe as we know did, but it's the only method by which both light and dark masons, adepts, can do the "great work", and build whether with light or with stone, both sides of the battle between light and dark are depicted on the back of the dollar bill. The father are your thoughts, the holy spirit are your emotions, the son are your actions, which you absolutely need in order to be saved. I mean it's too obvious that the bible is not just pure secular history, study something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qszm6uErb_g

Should make it clear enough. And still if you hadn't noticed, every single event in the news is heavily coded in all this numerology shit. There is no doubt that the same secret societies that gave the bible and mainstream religion to us, posses the truth of how the world really works and use it to the fullest. Take the drag funeral for example:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/-ZcabnLvJco

The drag dying at 6:30 pm, 69 years 3 months and 6 days after coronation, at 96 years and his book being 96 pages long, and whose name in the reverse order equals 369.
Born in 1926, as in (1+9) + (2+6) = 9, and died in 2022, as in (2+0) + (2+2) = 6. That is 96.
Dying exactly the 1110th minute of the day... being born on the 111th day of the year... as there are 111 days left in the year after September 11th. And 911 days went by from the day WHO declared the pandemic on March 11, 2020 to when the drag died.
1776 days after the first QAnon drop, just as an occult number as 911, which is the year both the bavarian illuminati was founded and US declared. Same as the jesuit number 201, that's how many days later the drag supposedly died after allegedly testing positive to the crown virus, as the Billy Gates' "event 201"simulation of it..
How sad was it when his wifeband Philip pretended to die 99, April 9 (9/4), 2021, the 99th day of the year, while the drag queen was 94 years old.. And in the reverse reduction the princess's name adds to 63. Allegedly died 63 days after the date of Drag Queen's official ascension to the throne, and 63 days before Philip's own birthday.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

The Bible doesn't teach personal relationship with God. It's people making stuff up.

Your job is to obey God's word and do what He desires.

[XHopelessRomanticX]

Relationship with God is both very similar and very different as the relationships we have with friends and family. As Christians, we speak to God through prayer. But God answers in different forms; sometimes through other people, sometimes through thoughts and ideas, sometimes through opportunities, and of course, through Scripture.

[Tamera952]

They can’t, it’s all subjective and make you delusional thinking that some caring deity gives two shits about you, when “they” clearly don’t.

[smølf]

To come near to God, we must first acknowledge our own imperfection and need for salvation. This means recognizing that we have made mistakes and are unable to make ourselves perfect on our own. Next, we must put our faith in Jesus Christ as our Savior. This means believing that Jesus died for our sins and rose from the dead, and asking God to forgive our sins and come into our life.

[NostalgiaSenpi]

It's often based upon confirmation bias. It's the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values. The more often things happen by sheer coincidence, the easier it is.

[purplepoppy]

It's just a way of absolving yourself from responsibility.

[lightbulb27]

We'll, you believe with all your heart and your mind. You don't put someone else in the middle... e. g. pope, pastor, government, etc..

[Phoenix98]

The same way anyone has any sort of relationship with anyone it’s just spiritual for us. We talk to god through prayer, faith and belief.

[OlderAndWiser]

If you think God is not real because you can't see Him, then no explanation will be satisfactory to you. But I suppose you also don't believe the wind is real, because you can't see that as well.

[Petr87]

Don't be so ridiculous! We know the wind is real due to the clearly observable effects it has upon other things that it comes into contact with. Can the same be said about "God"? No.

[OlderAndWiser]

See what you wish to see. Hear what you wish to hear. Believe what you wish to believe.

[Petr87]

No, I don't do that at all. I see what's actually there, unlike most people apparently, who see what makes them feel good about themselves.

[Dіldophobe]

This is like asking "is your life worth it without any love?"
And then pointing out that love is not scientifically measurable.

It's a brain imbalance schism they keep us in, symbolized by the smeagol in LOTR, haven't you noticed that all the "fiction" is full of esoteric symbolism?
So the smeagol keeps going back and forth between the selfish left brained materialist, and the ultra religious doormat right brainer. Neither of which is good, we need a balance. Not blindly believe and follow religious leaders, but be in touch with our intuition, creativity, and actually be more powerful creators in this world because we all know how "flow states" and "confidence" "faith" makes people more successful.

[SpokenTruth]

And if you don't have the Holy Spirit within you then you will not feel the effects of the Holy Spirit either. Once you are Saved through Jesus Christ Lord and Savior the Holy Spirit is given to you and you have the assurance with the Seal of God forever.

[BeMuse]

Open your eyes and look around some time... Social media is filled with people that think software is their "friends". They have a tally of likes and a collection of user names that they think makes them important.

[BeMuse]

"90% of comments on my Twitter account are bots" - Elon Musk

[BeMuse]

Ordinary people talk to software without knowing it and feel a connection to AI generated strings every day. They've been doing it for years in mass. They are being programmed by software to think and behave in a specific way.

[Petr87]

Okay, so what's your point? You can't have a REAL relationship with a bot! If someone is silly enough to think they can, well then they've got other issues they need to deal with (like distinguishing the real from the fake).

[BeMuse]

You can't seem to do that.

[SpokenTruth]

We have the Holy Spirit of God and yes God is above all and everyone else is below God including ourselves.

[collie22]

Some understand some don't. Be on guard for one who's trying to explain God away 👺

[dreamstar72]

Why can’t they without you having to judge them.

[Petr87]

What?

[jimmy2]

He is mine too