I began answering Amy’s questions with what may seem obvious, but I thought it needed saying. “Feeling God doesn’t mean actually touching God,” I wrote. We can’t perceive God with our five senses, because God is a universal spirit. “When people say they feel God,” I said, “they’re not talking about fingertip sensations or cuddling.” Feeling God involves intuitions and non-sensory perceptions, I told Amy, and these sometimes stir our emotions. Theologian John Wesley called such perceptions “spiritual sensations,” because the Spirit communicates without engaging our five senses. Biblical writers
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