Religious experience

An event or awareness that a person interprets as an encounter with God or another divine reality.

An experience that a person understands as direct awareness of God or another religiously significant reality, rather than simply an ordinary feeling.

A religious experience is an experience that someone understands as direct awareness of God or another religiously significant reality. For a Catholic, this might mean sensing God’s presence during prayer, experiencing God through the beauty of nature, or receiving a vision or an apparent message.

Compare Sunni, Shi’a and Sufi emphases without claiming that Sunni and Shi’a Muslims reject religious experiences or that Sufis reject the Qur’an.

Do not claim that all atheists or Humanists dismiss religious experiences as dishonest; they may accept that an experience happened while questioning its divine origin.

Compare differences in emphasis, not belief versus disbelief: Sunni and Shi’a Muslims accept religious experiences, while Sufis place particular emphasis on experiencing closeness to Allah.

An event or awareness that a person interprets as an encounter with God or the divine.

An experience which a person interprets as an encounter with God or the divine.

A religious experience is an experience which a person interprets as an encounter with God or the divine. For Catholics, this might mean sensing God’s presence in prayer, feeling awe and wonder in a beautiful landscape or religious building, or receiving a vision or hearing a voice believed to come from God. It need not involve something dramatic or visible to other people.

An experience that a person interprets as an encounter with God, the divine or a supernatural reality.

An event a person interprets as an encounter with, communication from or awareness of God.

An experience understood as having religious significance, such as an encounter with a spiritual reality or an insight gained through religious practice.

An event or state of awareness that a person interprets as an encounter with, or awareness of, divine or spiritual reality.

An event or moment that a person interprets as an encounter with God, a divine presence or a deeper spiritual reality.

An event or awareness that a person understands as an encounter with God or divine reality.

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