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Anything we can do for you to change that around just say so?

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What you could do is tell me if you experienced God's love as an actual experience from God.
 

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I had experience of God as peace and felt his holiness and majesty which had some fear mixed in with it. I can't say I ever experienced any feeling of love from God. In fact, I experienced sorrow or sadness, which was a reference to Jesus as the Man of Sorrows. But these were not my own feelings or emotions, they were bestowed upon me by God. So I can't relate to some feeling of love from Christ, sorry.
@Can't think of a name, if you had an "experience of peace and felt his holiness and majesty," you HAVE experienced "some feeling of love from Christ." Why? God is three Persons in ONE God, including Jesus Christ as the second one. All blessings come from the Father through Christ by the Spirit's power.

You seem to misunderstand who God is. Furthermore, with this correct understanding, I hope that you will come to understand and experience God's love more.

You have mentioned that your experience of God wasn't just feelings, but your language seems to use "feeling" words a lot: "felt," "fear," and "feeling" in this paragraph.
 

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@Can't think of a name, if you had an "experience of peace and felt his holiness and majesty," you HAVE experienced "some feeling of love from Christ." Why? God is three Persons in ONE God, including Jesus Christ as the second one. All blessings come from the Father through Christ by the Spirit's power.

You seem to misunderstand who God is. Furthermore, with this correct understanding, I hope that you will come to understand and experience God's love more.

You have mentioned that your experience of God wasn't just feelings, but your language seems to use "feeling" words a lot: "felt," "fear," and "feeling" in this paragraph.
I already tried to explain that the feeling of peace from God etc. was not my own human emotional feelings but that they were bestowed on me from outside myself by God, even though it happened to me subjectively.

I will not get embroiled in any discussion about feelings except to state clearly now that when I hear some Christians denigrating experiences in any way by calling them "feelings" such as "we don't rely on feelings" etc etc., I find that they are talking nonsense and probably don't know what they are talking about themselves since these types don't seem to have any experiences of God to speak of.

I only ever had one experience of God, and that was when He saved me. It's been a long time now. I can't be expected to somehow know what God's love feels like if I don't experience it, despite wanting to.
 

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I already tried to explain that the feeling of peace from God etc. was not my own human emotional feelings but that they were bestowed on me from outside myself by God, even though it happened to me subjectively.

I will not get embroiled in any discussion about feelings except to state clearly now that when I hear some Christians denigrating experiences in any way by calling them "feelings" such as "we don't rely on feelings" etc etc., I find that they are talking nonsense and probably don't know what they are talking about themselves since these types don't seem to have any experiences of God to speak of.

I only ever had one experience of God, and that was when He saved me. It's been a long time now. I can't be expected to somehow know what God's love feels like if I don't experience it, despite wanting to.
@Can't think of a name, what kind of an experience do you want from God? I have had many experiences of God's answers to my prayers and have seen his uses of experiences to guide me. Are those the kinds of experiences you want, or what? If you're interested, you can read the book What God Has Done: My True, Dramatic God-Biography (Amazon) about mine.
 

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@Can't think of a name, what kind of an experience do you want from God? I have had many experiences of God's answers to my prayers and have seen his uses of experiences to guide me. Are those the kinds of experiences you want, or what? If you're interested, you can read the book What God Has Done: My True, Dramatic God-Biography (Amazon) about mine.
I want to experience God's presence and the peace and joy of it. The peace that passes understanding. I want it to be with me all the time. But there seems to be a catch: unless I stop sinning ( that is, drinking etc) He will not show up. And yet I need Him to show up to stop drinking because I know I wouldn't drink if He came near to me.
 
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