I want to know about this question for so long. I’ve multiple aspects but didn’t find the right answer yet. I feel like god isn’t someone who is living in the clouds or like as such.. if someone is watching us from above & writing our karam (lekha). I feel like god resides in every heart. God is not a person but nature itself, that is everywhere. What are your thoughts about it?
My POV : God is Nature & Nature is considered as God.
This question comes up constantly and most answers either feel too soft or too focused on forgiveness without addressing the real wound.
I decided to go deeper into Scripture to find some answers.
God sees what people try to hide.
Ecclesiastes 12:14 is direct about this. Every hidden deed, every cruelty done behind closed doors, comes into judgment. People think they escaped because nobody confronted them immediately.
Galatians 6:7 teaches us the seeds a person plants through their actions grow into a harvest they cannot avoid. Lies get exposed. Destruction turns back toward the one causing it. This is a consistent pattern in the Bible.
God is close to the wounded.
Psalm 34:18 doesn’t say God is close to the brokenhearted. That distinction matters to people carrying wounds that never received justice from other people.
And Romans 12:19 isn’t about ignoring injustice. It tells us to leave room for God’s wrath. It’s about releasing the burden of judgment to someone with full knowledge, full wisdom, and full authority.
God also gives people opportunities to repent.
2 Peter 3:9 shows that Biblical justice is driven by righteousness. That balance is what separates God’s justice from human retaliation.
For anyone carrying wounds from betrayal, abuse, or injustice, the Bible doesn’t tell you your pain doesn’t matter. It tells you who carries the final weight of judgment.
I put together a longer teaching on this if anyone wants to go deeper. Sharing the link here if anybody is interested.
What God Does To People Who Hurt You
Title says its all.
1 John 2:23
Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.
I know scripture tells us to be sober-minded, so am I being deceived or deceiving myself when I say that MDMA made me more prayerful and childlike with my faith?
A little context I'd like to provide, or maybe some background on my faith in God: I initially found God through being led in prayer because I felt his love pour over me when I was going through a very insecure time in my life. Love poured in me and out of me so effortlessly when I started believing in Jesus. I was praying unapologetically for anything or everything, like a literal child to my Heavenly Father.
It was then that I met a group on my college campus that invited me to Bible studies. To keep it short and simple, although I am now more educated on the Bible, they led me down a path where I constantly feared my salvation. Whether it be the amount of time I chose to commit to the bible studies, they made me constantly question my salvation because of my works. I eventually decided to step away from that. It was hard because they taught me a lot of scriptures and biblical wisdom, apart from my newborn initial faith in God. The fearmongering produced by these Bible studies regarding my salvation and faith still lingers with me, but I've been healing.
I'm a child of God, and I am not my sins. I believe in this God because he delivered me away from things that hurt other people or me, and I am overall a more fruitful person because of Him. To be honest, though, after slowly adopting this more secure mentality of like realizing that fear and anxiety aren't from God, my prayer life has been pretty dull (?) I'm not clouded with much condemnation anymore, and when I do catch these thoughts, I immediately am reminded that these are things not from God. Maybe that's okay..? This is something I should think about and pray about for sure. Because I don't pray and read as much, maybe I'm questioning my salvation. Any advice and thoughts regarding this text are appreciated.
Got a little sidetracked, but yeah, I went to a festival, and I ended up taking MDMA. To describe the experience I had, I felt so warm and fuzzy. I'm extremely affectionate on it, and I love hugging people and all that. I prayed for all my friends in the name of Jesus, directly to them, and loving prayers came out of me so effortlessly. But yes, I am aware that it's the drug and chemicals, but I still felt so happy and loved by God when I thought of him. Is this wrong? Am I being deceived? I would never encourage anyone else to take drugs; this is just my experience.
82c. Divine love can be devotion to a sacred form. ॐ♰⛥☸✡☯☪
The last few weeks I have been debating 💀 myself and today a girl I used to be very into texted me saying I’ve been on her mind and that she had a feeling and need to pray for me the last 2 days ( I finished my note the last 2 days) she said god put me on her mind and In her heart I have wholeheartedly dismissed god through normal atheistic thoughts but this is making me second guess everything anyone have any opinions
I lived in a dark schizophrenia world, for years I tried my hardest to get out with no luck. I was scared at everything, I saw darkness all around me every day. I panicked over my family, strangers, I would pray and pray and not see anything when I wanted help.
One day I heard the words trust me and slowly over the next year or so things got better. He was my light. He took away all the fears, to afraid to sleep, best part of my day.
Loving him feels wonderful. He is still working on me but over the last couple years he has massively healed one day at a time. Dealing with each issue and then moving on to the next. Unraveling the tied knots within me.
I believe in god for I have seen what he has done for me. There is no doubt even if sometimes I still do and he does not deserve that but he still loves me. I trusted him, I spent time with him, he taught me himself as before I reached out I really did not believe, when I started I am unsure how much I believed.
Trust him, he loves you, if your in a dark place reach out.
I want to say to the world all he has done but there is not enough space on here.
It is quite complex but to simplify: For the past 4 years, I feel that everything goes against me and I think God is always on the hunt to try and punish and ruin my mental health, hence got me into depression as 13M, and I am starting to notice it.
I tried everything to hope I can make myself a well-worthy person but nothing works.
I am not trying to criticise God as I am a Hindu myself.
What can I do?
Hello everybody,
lately, out of personal interest, I have been exploring Christianity.
However, my focus is not specifically on Jesus, but rather on your own strongest personal reasons for believing in a primordial force, an Unmoved Mover, a primary source of energy, God, and so on.
What convinces you? Is it a story, the Bible, a personal experience, something abstract, or something quite simple?
I look forward to hearing every kind of opinion on this subject! :-)
So I am currently dating a woman, and she was born a man. She is the love of my life and I am her only supporter, but I have a problem… she’s turning 18 and I am a close age but I am not saying because some people will take offense or start hating and I can’t afford her to be hurt more then she already is. Besides the point! Anyways she believes in the shinto gods and as I said before… she is trans. She does not worship Baal and she is the sweetest person ever to me.
Is this a sin? Dating someone older, dating a trans, dating someone who doesn’t believe in god? She respects me for believing in god and supports me fully.
Is what I do wrong? Is following my love a problem?
So Im 22F and I’m not super into religion,I’m pretty non-religious all together. I do feel spiritual at most,but still call myself a Christian of someone was to ask what my religion is(due to family upbringing,it’s easier to explain and still believing in God/Jesus Christ/higher power). I’ve been looking into reading the bible more despite feeling iffy about it sometimes(due to not knowing 100% whether these are God’s words or not).
There’s certain things that happened in my life that I feel like God was involved but I also sometimes struggle with calling out for God with some things in my life and still no answers or resolution(and yes that’s not a way to think fr but again it’s a struggle).
cHi. I was born in a progressive Hindu family. I was told to ask questions that came to my mind. But some questions still remain unanswered.
Whenever you see any religion, it is stated that living beings, essentially humans, should do this and not do this. If we are insignificant in the universe, then why are we so self-centred?
Who said that crying is a sad emotion and laughing is a happy emotion? Humans categorise it themselves over civilisations. To understand my view, please watch the short film "TWO PEOPLE EXCHANGING SALIVA"
Two People Exchanging Saliva (2026 Oscar Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room
In this Film, there is a world where transactions are made by slapping people's faces and kissing, which is a love gesture in our world, but is forbidden in that world.
Most of the major religions, like Hinduism and Christianity, believe in the theory of Manu, Adam and Eve. But we have scientific evidence about our evolution and not just being on the earth as we are today.
I am aware that in Hinduism, we make idols, which seem to have a nose, a pair of ears, and a set of eyes. Their beautification, as written in texts, is sometimes compared to that of a human being. As it is written that Siva has a third eye. I mean, why does Shiva have eyes? Why is he not represented like a dolphin or a centipede?
We humans, judge everything around us on the basis of our human mind. Just as a big man is a strong man, a follower of god is a great man. Even the criteria of intelligence around which we humans make a hierarchy of organisms, in which we keep ourselves at the top. Like we decided that increased brain capacity means smartened but what if it is not true?
My OPINION
I believe there is a God, but it is such a being that is not comprehensible by us humans, as God would be for the whole universe, not just for Earth
I believe that the Gods believed by humans are a result of our high EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL complexity, which we created ourselves to get through life as a virtual help.
I am not here to demean any God or religion. I am just curious. I am sorry for my terrible English.
Enjoy the lesson in this Satsang! Blessings, Jenny
82g. Love can even be felt towards God like that towards one's own child.