God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.
Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate.
When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.
Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.
God is a spirit and converses with us in a quiet atmosphere because our minds are not capable of listening to his voice when they are filled with noise and confusion.
The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.