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1 | forgiveness confirmed? | 1 John 1:1 | Emmaus | 61156 | ||
GJH, Experience and emotional feeling are not always one and the same thing. A mental or spiritual experience is just as real as an emotional one and different people have different levels of emotional reaction. Prayer is good example. Sometimes it seems to be more emotional of feeling and other times more dry, but that does not mean that one is better than the other. For those who are Catholic the same applies to the experience of the scaraments. Every encounter withn God is not a mountain top experience, sometimes He meets us in the valley on in still small voice in the heart. My mother used to say "feelings come and go, it's how you deal with them that counts even if it seems like you have no feelings at all." Emmaus |
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2 | forgiveness confirmed? | 1 John 1:1 | GJH | 61291 | ||
Emmaus, I want to thank you for your response, once again. You're correct in pointing out that there are certainly varying degrees of emotional reactions, and the absence or lack of one doesn't negate the value of an intellectual one. But just as emotions are not true barometers, sometinmes they are real indicators of very real warning that something is not quite right. It's just not clear to me which my experiences or lack thereof means. My concern is, on the bottom line, can a man be presumptuous in assuming God's forgiveness, when in truth, things are not right. I know the remark probably seems strange, but it's the thought that makes my fear have legs. Maybe, He just wants me to trust without any evidence. Maybe, my feelings are accurate and I shouldn't quit trying to settle things with Him. Maybe I'm just letting my fears get the best of me. Somehow, I just think that if my son was afraid I didn't love him anymore, I'd certainly let him know that I did. | ||||||
3 | forgiveness confirmed? | 1 John 1:1 | Emmaus | 61326 | ||
GJH, I can't speak for others here, but when I have to see it in the literal sense I read the scripture. When I have to hear it in the physical as well as the spiritual sense I pray and then go to sacramental Confession. It is "the ministry of reconciliation." "Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God." 2 Cor 5:17-20 "And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." John 2:22-23 Emmaus |
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