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What it means to communicate with God

Does God hear? have feelings? can be pleased?

Previous note. This document presupposes that we have a concept of God as a loving Being who works together with creation, and not an immutable and "insensitive" God, as explained in another document. (See it here.)

Communication with God is analogical

The first thing that we must bear in mind, as we talk about communication with God is that everything we may say about God is analogical, just a likeness by comparison with what happens to us. This means that our terms, words, concepts and images about communicating with God do not apply literally to him, with the same meaning that they apply to us.

Most of our communication with others is by physical means. God meanwhile is not a physical entity, and so, these actions are meaningless in talking about God. They can be said only as a likeness or comparison with what happens to us. And, although we can not have a clear answer to our questions about communicating with God, we may have an idea about what is happening between God and us. Anything we might believe about afterlife is by faith; there are not proofs.

The divine way

God must have his own divine way of perceiving from "outside" and communicating with the "outside" world; this is not physical. He must have some divine ability or potential correlated to our physical and human abilities for communicating. Communication per se doesn't have to be physical; it could be mental or something else, and God must have his own way of communicating according to his divine nature.