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7 yr old talks about hearing God & feeling God's touch?

For starters, we are Christian & regularly attend church, just to get that out of the way.

For the last week, my 7 yr old son claims to have encounters with God.

In the car, he could hear God whistle a "happy song", and was genuinely confused that no one else could hear it. We turned off all noise- radio, heater, etc. he could still hear it, we couldn't.

Then he said that God poked him in the side of the head in class, like God was trying to play with him or get his attention.

Then today, God poked him in the leg as if to say "let's run!" (My son's interpretation)

We are honestly scratching our heads on this one. Is this normal 7 yr old hyper-creativity in action, or should we take these encounters more serious?

My husband & I have never personally encountered God in a physical nature before.

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago
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    Probably just a kid being a kid. There are endless stories on the internet you can read about kids saying creepy things about hearing voices; they've got busy minds at that age and they're not always equipped to discern reality from imagination.

  • 6 years ago

    Heres the thing. He's only like that because you forced him into believing in God. That is literally the only reason he believes in God. If you raised your kid Hindu he would probably be saying the same thing except instead of feeling "gods touch" he would feel "vishnu's touch." It's all dependent on what you teach your kids while they're young. Think about this - instead of taking your kid to church m Sunday's, imagine if you took him to a science class. Every week he would hear about how we evolved into the intelligent beings we are now. He would hear about the Big Bang & the constant expansion of the universe due to dark energy, etc. imagine doing this his entire childhood, and then one day at school he hears about this character called "god." He hears about how God created everything in 7 days, how he impregnated a virgin with his son aka himself & then killed him so the sinful things he made would have a scapegoat. He wouldn't believe it. Stop training your kids with lies!

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    of course is going to talk about God and feeling God, because he's been taught about that his entire life. It's been pounded into his head that God intervenes in everyday life and of course he's going to think that God is intervening in his life, because humans are anthropocentric and think of nothing except themselves. Its nothing special, its happened thousands or even tens of thousands of times before, and I honestly believe that you should teach them the different beliefs of all religions so that they know more than just Christianity. Its indoctrination if you teach them only your beliefs and keep them in the dark about all of the others. And that is bigotry.

    Source(s): Atheist
  • Fusion
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    A special connection. Let the boy find his God in peace. Blessed child.

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  • 6 years ago

    Honestly. we don't know who God reaches out to. All you can do is monitor his behavior and see in what direction it goes. It doesn't mean there is some thing wrong with him.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Seven year olds have very active imaginations and can easily produce experiences to order if they've been told that such things can happen.

  • Be careful of god's "poking". He gets virgin girls pregnant like that.

  • People have encountered God on a physical level before, so keep that in mind

  • 6 years ago

    Blame yourself for your child's delusions.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Really? Ok wow ohhhh wow uhhhh

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