Quote Originally Posted by LuxAeterna View Post
Yes, but that does not mean faith without reason. I cannot prove that God exists, but that does not mean that I can't make a well-reasoned, logical case for his existence.


No, I didn't say that. First, see my comment above. Second, I don't think I went into any details about why I believe in God, nor do I think that this is the place.



No, I don't say specifically how to go about doing that. I don't have a bulleted formula for spiritual discernment that I can cut and paste here. Sorry, it doesn't work that way.

And if I did have a list, I don't think this is the place to talk about such a thing. I expressed my reservations for using LDs to experience God, and gave reasons when asked, but I am not going to deliver a treatise on why we ought to believe in God or the specific character of a Christian prayer life.

If that is what you want then there are far better writers and thinkers who can give far better answers than I can--C. S. Lewis, for example.

-Lux
I think I missed the part where you told me the difference between talking to god while awake and talking to god while asleep. The best I could come up with is that you'd said that the mind was more suggestible during sleep in terms of unwittingly synthesizing the divine, but certainly you don't think it's incapable of doing that while awake. Especially given the strong emotional attachment people have to their given religions, it's not much of a stretch to think that what may be ignored as mundane by a non-religious person may be interpreted to be divine by a religious one. We also can't rule out outright hallucinations and plain old lying to oneself.

For the record, "You can just tell" is a very, very bad answer.