Is it possible to communicate with God

Is it possible to communicate with God?

Risk of distortion with the use of "Abba," Father

To start with I must say that we cannot have a dialogue with God as with another human being. We may address God with words, thoughts, desires, petitions, and we may "hear" his answer inside us; but all this is happening in our minds only. So, the question is this: can we really reach God, communicate with him and be answered by him? Let us see.

Communication with God is through faith

From a solely natural point of view we cannot communicate beyond the physical environment. If God exists, he is by nature inaccessible and we cannot reach him. This is what simple nature tells us.

When we intend to talk about communication with God, we are exiting the natural order. As in other subjects that we have discussed in these pages, we are entering here the realm of the supernatural world. Only by revelation can we know any order beyond nature, and only by faith can we communicate with that world.

God as a personal God

I used to say every day in my Preparation for talking with God, that "He has been, is and will be Being, Existence, Life, Action, Energy, Power, Kindness, Love, Wisdom, but only by revelation can we know him as a God who communicates and dialogues with us." (You may see the whole Preparation, here.)

I am saying here that only by revelation may we know that God is a person (analogically). I said in another document that it is more adequate to say that God is personal, instead of a person. We believe by the revelation of Jesus that God is a personal God, a communicative Being.

Communication with God is a supernatural action

We, human beings, may communicate only with persons; and God being a person, or personal, we may communicate with him. But this action is not a man's natural action, but a supernatural action, because it is done in faith.

Human beings prefer to communicate with a God who is able to "hear," to understand and to answer them, instead of with an abstract entity. It is more reasonable to say that God is personal, than to think that he is an impersonal, mute, deaf and blind entity, as many physicists and philosophers say.