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How Do You Have A Relationship With God/Jesus?
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<blockquote data-quote="L C" data-source="post: 230822"><p>The “personal relationship†believers talk about when referring to God is something which cannot be shared because so much of it is based on that person’s thoughts and mostly their emotions as they navigate through life.“Each mind is a world onto its own†and you know this already to some extent, but you will encounter difficulties as you try to draw analogous references between “relationships†in the physical-emotional and the spiritual-emotional realm.This is like trying to describe dryness with water as a reference to someone who has never experienced it.Not to say that they aren’t valid, just not universal in the one sense.The rise of so many individual, “personal†spiritual relationships on a broad scale is a later 20th century phenomenon as a reaction to the string of scandals within religious communities.Most religious people have shunned the term “religious†and replaced it with “personal relationship†in attempts to distance themselves from organized bureaucratic systems while retaining some sense of “divine†order in their lives.This is due to individual alienation which continues to rise as society continue to become more and more fragmented and bifurcated with specialization and so forth.I strongly suspect that eventually all religious—I mean “spiritual†people’s “spirituality†will become so similar in subjective terms that they will become indistinguishable from one another and some type of universal or world religion will arise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="L C, post: 230822"] The “personal relationship†believers talk about when referring to God is something which cannot be shared because so much of it is based on that person’s thoughts and mostly their emotions as they navigate through life.“Each mind is a world onto its own†and you know this already to some extent, but you will encounter difficulties as you try to draw analogous references between “relationships†in the physical-emotional and the spiritual-emotional realm.This is like trying to describe dryness with water as a reference to someone who has never experienced it.Not to say that they aren’t valid, just not universal in the one sense.The rise of so many individual, “personal†spiritual relationships on a broad scale is a later 20th century phenomenon as a reaction to the string of scandals within religious communities.Most religious people have shunned the term “religious†and replaced it with “personal relationship†in attempts to distance themselves from organized bureaucratic systems while retaining some sense of “divine†order in their lives.This is due to individual alienation which continues to rise as society continue to become more and more fragmented and bifurcated with specialization and so forth.I strongly suspect that eventually all religious—I mean “spiritual†people’s “spirituality†will become so similar in subjective terms that they will become indistinguishable from one another and some type of universal or world religion will arise. [/QUOTE]
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