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Originally posted by SecretMethod70
Actually, I agree. Truth is, just as we have all had experiences where, when we try to describe it to someone else, words escape us and all we can say is "you had to be there," the experience of what many refer to as God and the divine is like this. Language is inadequate in describing it in the first place, and the words which we have grown accustomed to using, such as God and divine, have a certain connotation and stigma different from what we are coming to experience God and the divine to be.
In other words, sometimes the greatest barrier to experiencing God to many people is the word "God" itself. It's something that, truthfully, language cannot project and the best way to share it with someone else is to be their experience of it in this life - through deep, profound, and caring relationships - and I don't just mean in the significant other sense. Hence the teaching that people will know you by the life you live, not by the words you say.
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If you can't describe it in words then I'm assuming, and correct me if I'm wrong, that you understand your theory of God with feelings. If that is true, and I'm just going by assumption, how do you know to trust your feelings. What if you look at a hamburger and feel this incredible energy or spirit or mystical force. That doesn't mean it has energy; it just means you feel like it does. Feeling might seem to have meaning when they don't.