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To: jennyp
What do you know about the Christian Spirit? Not what someone has told you about it. Not what you have deduced about it from observing others. But what you yourself have experienced--experienced in the same way you can discern and experience the color green, for example. What do you know personally about what Christians call the Holy Spirit?
759 posted on 06/17/2002 7:14:41 PM PDT by Kevin Curry
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To: Kevin Curry
What do you know about the Christian Spirit? Not what someone has told you about it. Not what you have deduced about it from observing others. But what you yourself have experienced--experienced in the same way you can discern and experience the color green, for example. What do you know personally about what Christians call the Holy Spirit?

I have experienced the color green. I have, at one period, absolutely begged any supernatural being out there to come and enter my life to help me with my problems. Nobody bit. Not God, not Satan, not Baal, not Athena, not some supernatural being who I haven't even heard of ... nobody!

My sister - we'll call her Ann - talks to God daily & he talks right back to her. She "knows personally" the Holy Spirit. (Actually I think she talks to God Himself, but according to my Catholic upbringing the one God is also 3, 3, 3 Gods in One. But who's counting?)

Anyway, Ann sez "God is a gentleman", and that's why He won't even show Himself to you unless you get to an absolutely hopeless point in your life, and then, if you desperately want to believe in God, then he'll show himself you. IOW, you have to first believe in God in order to see him.

As it happens, no supernatural being ever answered my call, so I ended up solving my problems on my own, and couldn't be happier. Ann ended up being best friends with God, who constantly talks back to her as a literal voice in her head, and she couldn't be happier. (Satan, BTW, tries to horn in on their conversations. He's the voice in her head who can't help referring to "me", "I", "my". I thought the voice in my head that refers to "me" is in fact myself. But apparently not. But I digress...)

Anyway, Kevin, from this I conclude that Ann is delusional, and I am sincerely surprised that she's still able to function with some semblance of normalcy in her life. You, I take it, will conclude that I just wasn't trying hard enough to believe, or ... what?

783 posted on 06/17/2002 7:44:37 PM PDT by jennyp
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