Many Christians claim certainty about God, following encounter with Christ. What do they mean? Are they fools?

I'm disappearing for Advent. 👋 I pray that you all have a good Advent preparation for meeting our Lord and Saviour at Christmas with joy.🙏

Cleanse your ears.

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Christian mystical experience has not been explained, or even nearly explained, by Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR).

@urbanizedbeach I agree Colton. What do you think needs to change, both on side of the Church, and same-sex attracted people?

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@dlongenecker1 @BillArnoldTeach Thank you!

@ClassicalAegis Don't forget his definition of golf: a good walk spoilt.

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@EamonnClark @BWCACatholic @BillArnoldTeach St Francis of Assisi is diffifcult to beat, but I do believe in the sanctity and miracles associated with Bl. Carlo Acutis too. Perhaps more is to come?

@BillArnoldTeach Yes - if we dare to look, the mysteries are there. Thankyou for your witness. 🙏

@BillArnoldTeach His canonisation will be much sooner - 27th April 2025. Regarding the others, I have no knowledge whether or not their bodies are truly incorrupt. I believe there are some real examples however.

Put “Procrastination” as item no. 10 on your to do list.

@potentia_9 Each must take their own way, following the light within, authentically. Points of decision will come, but be attentive to grace, and keep a journal. Our worldly mind soon forgets graces and where they point. We must remember and join up the dots.

I began reading a few Christian mystical classics: Lossky, Louth, Olivier Clement, and was very open about which denomination i might join. I had intended to try them all. Then grace intervened. I happened to be in a Catholic Cathedral one day when Mass was just beginning. I had sudden spiritual conversion there and then (Pentecost-like), complete life change. I could also see that there had been a whole trail of graces with intentional pattern leading me to Catholicism. I still value greatly the Eastern Orthodox mystical tradition, and the Islamic mystical tradition. My reading in both was hugely transformative.

@potentia_9 I know. I had immersed myself in Sufism and Ibn Arabi, but somehow Jesus still had a deep pull, then I found this book. It was intense to read on the beach.

Christian writers don’t tend to use the term “Universal Man”, but use other terms, “cosmic Christ”, “new Adam”, “mystical body of Christ” and “theosis”. See especially Maximus the Confessor’s On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ or Lossky’s The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church.