Why was I locked up when "god" spoke to me?
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No worries, my friend. We're all crazy. I know I am!\n\nBesides, you're right. It matters not what the world thinks of you. It only matters what you think of yourself...and what God thinks. \n\nMoreover, you are very poetic! I liked some of the visions you explained- like the bird flying on the winds of the desert. It kind of alludes to the existential isolation that we all must bear in this indifferent universe.\n\nMaybe the voice was God- maybe it wasn't. But he does exist, and he does speak to us.\n\nYou lived on for a reason. Maybe sometime, a revelation will emerge forth, and you will understand why you haven't completed your mission in life just yet.\n\nI almost died at least on one occasion, myself- life is sacred to me now, and although life is painful, it's worth living.\n\nMark my words- you are okay in my book. The truly sick people are out in the streets, my friend- they don't even know that they are sick. They are the ones that belong in a hospital.
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Sometimes God is silent. He wants to know if you are serious about Him. Continue to pray and don't give up. Your consistency in prayer will make you stronger. I feel for you and please know that regardless of what people tell you, you are precious in God's site, and He cares about you.
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Yes, felt that way b/4, but this is what helped me out. I have to get very close to God. Remembering what the scripture says in the book of Job 22:21 “Now acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace;Thereby good will come to you" I remembered also remembered and read Numbers 23:19 which says “God is not a man, that He should lie,Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?" Having this at the back of my mind, I then strongly believed that God loves me by believing the scripture John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son ..." After then u can not imagine how well and healed I was, my worries disappeared. God is Great - give Him a trial today.
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In short, no.  Your parents are still legally responsible for you and if they kick you out on the street, they can be charged criminally with endangering the welfare of a minor, or however it's defined in your state.  My guess is that they are just trying to scare you into continuing to go to church in hopes that you will remain a believer in God.  I'm not going to tell you how to believe or worship, I'm just telling you the law.
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There is no way to shield yourself when invoking evil spirits. Since God is more powerful than anything you could call up, why don't you try asking him for something and see what the answer will be?
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Ask God for spiritual protection.  Just rattling of the Lord's prayer won't do anything because you need a prayer of faith, not a go to prayer of tradition.  The Lord's prayer is a model of how to pray, not the only thing you should pray.  also, Jesus never said "say this prayer when you are under spiritual oppression."  when it happens to you next time, pray in the way Jesus did when he drove out demons.  rebuke the demon, tell Him you belong to Jesus and tell him in the name of Christ to leave you.  Ask God for an angel to protect you and guard you.  Also, youre not being attacked because you didnt go to a church service, God isn't punishing you.  Remember, God is greater than the devil, just rely on Him and youll be fine.
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Pray that God will use you and speak through you to him.  God is the only one who knows what will get your friends attention so let Him guide you.  Trust me, I've made the mistake of saying what I think instead of what God wanted me to say too many times to count.  But I've also had true wisdom come from my mouth when I asked God to talk for me.
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I had this experience. I was exorcised, no joke. But my faith in God never diminished after that.
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Jesus said no man (or woman) can come to me except my Father draw him. John 6:44. If God is calling you then you can repent. Blasphemy of the holy spirit won't be forgiven. God would respect someone who questioned His existence but then proved it more so then someone who just say they believe it just cause they were taught it. Hang in there your on the right track!
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i was reading some of the put downs, doesnt any one have any faith or even common sense. god talks to each and every one of us. its the voice in your head telling you to do something or not to do something its the guilt you feel when you have done something wrong. who are we to say god did not speak to him. the bible says judge ye not! and it also tells us to have faith.who are we to decide who god can and can not talk to. would you believe him if he said satan talked too him?
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No.  Though, I'm sure some people think God talked to them.  The brain will fill in whatever voice you want to hear if you really want to hear something badly enough.
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There's your answer right there. There is hope. Even after everything God still heard you and answered your prayer. He never lets us go and never forgets us, even we have been the most low down and dirtiest people. That's why he is so great. A lot of people don't ever get to really understand that, but tonight I think you did.
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I think that we all struggle in our faith one way or another. Questioning God's existence doesn't really cross most of our minds. We may question why He allows things to happen or we may even question our own Christian walk and our relationship with God. My pastors -and I've had a few in my life -haven't been perfect. In fact there was one who was my Dad's boss that treated his underlings shabbily and used the church vehicle for personal business. I think he may've even taken some of the better donations given to the church for his own. I do know that he was eventually caught by his bosses with his hand in the cookie jar and in adultery. He was speedily fired. As for weird things in a worship service? I recall visiting a Charismatic service to see what it was like. I met one of those pastors who held rather rambunctious healing services. You know the type.; they call you forward for healing even though you haven't volunteered or asked for it. He claimed -a few times- to be given a word of knowledge about some type of secret sin in some person's life. I found this made me extremely uncomfortable because I do not believe that God would humiliate an individual in this manner. Nor do I think that Jesus would compel anyone to come for healing. God is a Gentleman, and He never forces Himself on anybody. Neither should His servants
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If you wanted someone to really answer your question seriously, why did you make it so long?\n\nJust reading the first few questions, which is all I had the energy for, God gave us free will.  If you want to go and rape someone, God cannot stop you else he has revoked our freedom of free will.  It only makes sense.
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God always was.  That is how powerful he is.  He was always there.\n\nGod's name is Jesus.\n\nBelieve in Jesus and he will help you through all your problems.
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There is something in your soul that is threatend by the power of God. Might want to get it checked out :)
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I have been on both sides of this issue. I was raised to believe, but rationally I could not except the idea that God was the judgmental insecure fruitcake my religion portrayed him as.\n\nSo I stopped believing.  Then this happened to me.\n\nSeveral years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away. \n\nWhile driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.\n\nThree days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to. \n\nI feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.\nDuring the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible. \n\nI can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.\n\n I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings. \n\nYour brother don