Why is your reality superior to my reality?
How does one actively battle against both good and evil? What god would lead the fight to do so? Perhaps it wasn’t the traditional Christian deity that took possession of ScottRP’s vocal cords. Are there any chaotic neutral gods out there that could have been behind this?
Did He also use your lungs, trachea, tongue, cheeks, teeth, and lips? Or was it all just vowels?
Because if He used all those components of your body, presumably they were unavailable for your personal use while the words were being formed and transmitted. That’s like a textbook definition of being possessed.
Or do you prefer to think of it as you “channeling” the Creator of the Universe?
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Have you confessed these events to your priest? If so, what was his response? If not, why not?
He already said he confessed to the highest level priest ever: Jesus. Since he said Jesus’s name, that makes it all true.
ScottRP, can you comment on the following with respect to the events you describe as having experienced?:
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Symptoms of hyper-religiosity are visual and/or auditory hallucinations of God or other religious figures, feelings of being one with the world around you and/or God, intense emotions of God’s presence, and the conviction that you are chosen by God or another religious figure to carry out a certain task. What is striking about these symptoms is that the focus is not on central aspects of religion, like taking care of others, but on very specific, exaggerated tasks, emotions or perceptions.
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[QUOTE=Neurological basis for hyper-religiosity]
Even though there has not been done much research on the connection between mania and religiosity, two reports clearly show this link does exist. Whitney (1998) reported a case study of a man who had severe religious symptoms during a manic episode. He saw angels and felt connected to heaven and God.
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- Excerpts from a link posted earlier by Gyrate.
There were a few more posts back and forth, but hopefully you get the idea. Mine is an honest question, and thank you for the answer, that’s what I thought even with my limited understanding of Catholicism.
Evil has always been in the creation, it was Satan who tempted Man to learn of it … by eating “the fruit of the tree of good and evil knowledge”. To say otherwise, as the OP has, is to contradict Catholic doctrine … yet the OP furiously denies any contradictions.
ScottRP … this is your brother Christian speaking … you are young to The Word and you have learned a few things. I’m commanded to love you, and sometimes the most loving thing to do is speak the truth. This little bit of knowledge you’ve bantered about is just getting you in trouble. It’s brought you pride and boasting that you think to know something we don’t. I say I know this of you strictly through experience, I too spoke these same things when I was a novice, I need only look in my own heart to see what moves in yours.
One of our brothers said to me then “Dude, you’re just chasing people away, that’s a sin … our job is to bring people closer, not send them running … humble your ass down one or six notches”. I pass this on to you and hope this will make you a better Christian as it did me. It is with fear and trembling we approach The Lord Our God, and only the humble are accepted.
Please go to confessional, and soon. Explain to the priest everything you’ve brought up here … and then have FAITH in what the priest says to you … it’s perfectly okay to disagree, just remember it is you who is young to The Word and have much yet to learn.
One human lifetime is never enough time … be content …
If you want a less compelling example, I suggest you do not mention UFO’s or aliens. There are a great many photographs and videos of them. And quite a few ex-political and ex-military personal who have bore witness to them.
Also, my testimony is not dependent on seeing spiritual orbs.
Revelations 12:11. “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.”
This is unclear, please explain. What does my having a personal revelation have to do with it being in conflict with Catholic Theology?
FWIW, I don’t believe that it is ScottRP’s naiveté that is the real issue here.
In fact, I have mention my experience to a professional at one time and she told me that it was a religious experience and had nothing to do with “schizophrenia.”
A professional what?
Yes. I would suggest that you not attempt to interpret it. The interpretation of a personal revelation is best chewed by the one it is being feed to.
Get a second opinion. Seriously.
Psychiatrist.
Why don’t you interpret that sentence for us? What does a battle against good and evil entail, and what side is one on when one battles against good and evil?
It was His Son, Jesus Christ that I saw when I was 9 years old.
Get a second opinion from a psychiatrist that isn’t also a heavy religionist.
Were you being treated at the time or was this something you asked someone at a church picnic between first and second helpings?
That doesn’t answer the question that was asked. Were you alone, or did other people hear it also?