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Is there a Christian term for the condition of a person who subjectively feels incapable of experiencing a spiritual connection with God?
I'll offer some additional terminology from a Latter-day Saint perspective.
Past Feeling
"Past feeling" is a term used twice in the Book of Mormon to describe people who could not perceive ...
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Is there a Christian term for the condition of a person who subjectively feels incapable of experiencing a spiritual connection with God?
Is there a Christian term for the condition of a person who is unable to experience a spiritual connection with God?
Going out on a limb here and going to speculate that the only term that would truly ...
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How can non-believers, who cannot perceive nor understand the things of the Spirit, overcome their spiritual blindness?
This post will address the question from the perspective of a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; most of the principles though are consistent with beliefs found in many ...
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Is there a theory within Christianity that explains why some Christians report more 'spiritual experiences' than others?
Many Christians would refer to a period of spiritual dryness, when the life of faith is devoid of spiritual experiences as a "Dark Night of the Soul" or a "Period of Spiritual Dryness&...
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Is there a theory within Christianity that explains why some Christians report more 'spiritual experiences' than others?
An answer can be gleaned from Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, chapter 12:
7 To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is
given for some benefit. 8 To one is given through the Spirit ...
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How can non-believers, who cannot perceive nor understand the things of the Spirit, overcome their spiritual blindness?
Rather than address your question from the perspective of what an individual should do (the series of actions they should take), I'd like to suggest a rationale of why a spiritually person can ...
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What are distinctive features of Eastern Orthodox spirituality?
What are distinctive features of Eastern Orthodox spirituality?
Thinking about this question, one would think it is quite broad, but if we think about it in terms as being distinctive that seems like ...
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How can non-believers, who cannot perceive nor understand the things of the Spirit, overcome their spiritual blindness?
The answer is not the same for every person. Each person takes his own pathway. Here are three common examples:
Faith. The person takes a leap of faith from unbelief to belief. Some who simply recite ...
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How can non-believers, who cannot perceive nor understand the things of the Spirit, overcome their spiritual blindness?
The answer is: ask God for the grace for the ability to see blockages in one's soul so one can repent and then clearing the way for the mustard seed of faith, understood as God's gift of the light of ...
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How can non-believers, who cannot perceive nor understand the things of the Spirit, overcome their spiritual blindness?
The first step in true religion is that required by John the Baptist - he that hath two coats, give to him that hath none and likewise with meat, Luke 3:11.
If one does not love one's neighbour whom ...
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Is there a Christian term for the condition of a person who subjectively feels incapable of experiencing a spiritual connection with God?
After a cursory investigation, I found the following related terms:
Spiritual dryness or desolation:
In Catholic spirituality, spiritual dryness or desolation is a lack of spiritual consolation in ...
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According to Pentecostalism/Charismatics, how does God manifest and interact with Christians?
Under the section ‘Beliefs’ this article explains how Pentecostals view having an experience of God comes through baptism with the Holy Spirit. Part of the article says this:
Baptism with the Holy ...
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According to Mormonism, how does God manifest and interact with Christians?
Do LDS teachings provide specific guidelines for how Christians should or could experience/encounter God in everyday life
Yes.
'We’re told to look for God in many places—in the scriptures, in our ...
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According to Protestantism, how does God manifest and interact with Christians?
If there is any sort of repeated, personal experience for an individual Christian beyond what Nigel J. has outlined above it is this:
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the ...
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According to Protestantism, how does God manifest and interact with Christians?
1. Manifestation
The Bible League Trust, a Protestant Organisation, states in regard to their own heading 'God Manifested' that :
“God was manifest in the flesh.” 1 Timothy 3:16 [TR/KJV]
This is ...
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According to Catholicism, how does God manifest and interact with Christians?
By divine revelation:
Disclosure by God of himself and his will to the human race. The disclosure comes to human beings by way of communication, which implies the communicator, who is God; the ...
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According to Catholicism, how does God manifest and interact with Christians?
"According to Catholicism, how does God manifest and interact with Christians?"
I agree with the statement made above, that this is a broad (and somewhat vague) question. I will try to ...
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To what extent are Christians encouraged to make conscious efforts to "experience" God as "real"?
Those 2 books are anthropological and sociological studies of how a Christian group promotes certain conceptualization of spiritual experience in their members in the areas of prayer and relationship ...
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To what extent are Christians encouraged to make conscious efforts to "experience" God as "real"?
The Christian experience (I speak of Protestant, Trinitarianism - which is my own, personal experience) begins with the conviction of one's own sinfulness, spiritual destitution and desperate need of ...
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