Definitely man. I fell away from Christianity before after hearing the same kind of garbage.
I was taught that the holy ghost talks through feelings.
You know that experience you can have where things suddenly click and you are aware of some truth? It seems so clear and so obvious that sometimes you can't even explain how you got there, you just know something to be true that you were not sure about before. That is how God talks to you through the holy spirit. He just reveals things to you. My belief is that he allows people glimpses of the truth (we can never comprehend truth as a whole, only God can) when they are ready to receive it. It is a powerful experience, but notice there is no feeling associated with it. It is a knowing.
It always seemed obvious to me that if God is God, why would he need a book to communicate with you? That's not to slight the Bible, the Bible is great, it's just that people seem to believe it's the only way to understand God. Even in the Bible, Jesus says he will send a helper to guide us.
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. - John 14:26
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father. - John 16:12-16
Definitely man. I fell away from Christianity before after hearing the same kind of garbage.
You know that experience you can have where things suddenly click and you are aware of some truth? It seems so clear and so obvious that sometimes you can't even explain how you got there, you just know something to be true that you were not sure about before. That is how God talks to you through the holy spirit. He just reveals things to you. My belief is that he allows people glimpses of the truth (we can never comprehend truth as a whole, only God can) when they are ready to receive it. It is a powerful experience, but notice there is no feeling associated with it. It is a knowing.
It always seemed obvious to me that if God is God, why would he need a book to communicate with you? That's not to slight the Bible, the Bible is great, it's just that people seem to believe it's the only way to understand God. Even in the Bible, Jesus says he will send a helper to guide us.