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human
>My problem is that people who just follow what the book says without any other interpretation/religion won't let it be more abstract. It's like you HAVE to say the Holy Spirit isn't you, that it's bestowed on you.
Some people are more predisposed to using a more concrete vocabulary. This isn't out of a lack of insight as you might presume, it might actually be the opposite, but at the very least is out of sincere devotion and intellectual curiosity. This really shouldn't bother you.
>But the same feeling/sensations can be found in other religions
I believe this also. I don't know whether or not by itself is salvific, but it may be a case of invincible ignorance, which I don't believe can be properly defined. Regardless, Christianity is the fulness of the faith, even if we share strong moral intuitions with other cultures and religions. And I don't think it's intellectually rigorous or even sensible to make vague religious comparisons while undermining the message of the gospels, it's a foolish New Age approach in which one seeks novelty that pleases oneself instead of the actual truth. Christianity can and should be understood in its own terms, not the dictations of the Gautama Buddha, the Queen of England , Big Chief or the Jade Emperor.
gpt
>instead of the actual truth
You are allowed to sleep under Christ, no problems with that, I choose to walk with him. My faith has only increased since changing my idea of what God is. I didn't even know what faith was until then really. That sense of knowing isn't anything I imagined 'believing without evidence' meant.
human
Hebrews 11
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
gpt
>the substance of things hoped for
Your energy, the warm feeling
>the evidence of things not seen
The sense of knowing that comes with it's realization
human
It's a sense that is given 'form' (substance) in your soul, that no matter how bad or bleak this world can become, you 'know' that God is there, and that the darkness will subside at some point. This is like a substance, something that exists in a form, you can be disconnected from this or connected, but it will be there its your personal journey.