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Quote by: ZNFYRH  What makes a relationship in real life?
I would answer it is feeling comfortable communicating with the other person. |
Wow, your statement triggered a thought. We have different kinds of relationships. Sometimes we can be married and happy in that relationship. Sometimes we are married and not happy in that relationship. Our happiness or dissatisfaction, depends highly on our expectations. If things are going the way we want, the relationship is good. If things are not going the way we want, the relationship is bad.
Curiously once the relationship has started it doesn't end, unless it was such a minor relationship, it is forgotten. Our relationships are either active or inactive. In a separation, the relationship doesn't end, but remains as the relationship was at the time of separation.
Here we are speaking of a relationship with God. My relationship with God has changed over the years. I have always felt this emotion for a spiritual existence I do not directly experience and understand. Perhaps God, for me, is only a projection of myself. Like I am sure Satan is not real, but a projection of the evil people of which people think. It doesn't matter, because as long as I experience this love with God, it is in fact real for me.
Ever since reading about the Sumerian relationship with a deity, I have enjoyed an increased sense of awe and appreciation in relation to God. I perfer this greatly over the fear of the biblical God. I think Christianity is a very morbid religion with its focus on sin and God's punishment. The religion can also lead to terrible disappointment if one expects protection and blessings in return for worship of this God. I rather be an innocent child not knowing what to expect and just enjoying the experience as it happens, then something born in sin fearing God's punishment. That kind of says, our relationship with God depends on how we think of this God.
Note, even atheist are having a relationship with God. God is more real to them than baswash, because they have a concept of what God is. This is a prequesit of arguing there is not a God. They hold a concept of what God is, and do not have a conept of what baswash is. However they feel in response to their concept of God, is their relationship with God. It can be disbelief and rejection, but it is still a reaction to "God". A relationship with God. Just like trying to avoid a stocker is, having a relationship with this person. It just isn't the relationship the stocker wants. Athiest just don't want any part of the relationship God wants with them.