Larry Sanger

But I would write it down and make it sort of a dialogue just to help me work through things.

So I started doing that again because it was just an old habit.

Hadn't done it in a while, I guess.

But I started doing it again very shortly after I started reading the Bible again.

But at some point, I realized that these were essentially prayers.

And I felt the presence of God on the other end of the line, so to speak.

What did that presence feel like?

Well, I mean, you can't really describe it in other terms.

I mean, it does seem to be the presence of another person.

Like I'm talking to you, I'm aware there's another person in this tent with me, right?

And so it's the same sort of way I can, when I am dialoguing with God, I'm not, by the way, pretending that I am a prophet and thinking that he actually is responding to me.

I mean, one of the main things that I started talking about, in fact, was what the heck is going on here?

Am I not just, you know, dialoguing with myself?

And I think that this is probably the case.

It's just that this is a thing of which God approves, and He wants us to imagine how He would respond to us.

and perhaps in the process of our imagining, he will have a certain kind of spiritual input.

But I can say, though, that when I have these sorts of dialogue sessions, that I do feel the presence of God.

It's like, on the one hand, it's the least persuasive

evidence for the existence of God to anybody else.

It's like, okay, you felt the presence of God.