Does anyone know of any hardcore atheists that had a real encounter with Christ?

Question

If so, please tell me about it?

Brenda, and all like minded, just because a dimension of life is unexperienced by you does not mean it doesn't exist...you are just blind to it.

Answer 1

Lee Strobel, an author, was an athiest who set out to build a case against God and/or Christ and ended up becoming a believer.

Edit:

Hey Captain,

I'm quite aware, and knowledgable, of much that speaks against my faith, as I am a skeptic by nature. What I'm not ignorant of however, is all that verifies my faith; both the body of liturgy and study that refutes much of what Athiests (among others) claim as well as my own personal testimony and the volumes of testimonies from throughout history that confirm what I believe to be very very much the truth. We all have faith in some foundation that is improvable and therefore vulnerable in the eyes of another. We all subscribe to varying worldviews because of that foundation, and we all attempt to justify our beliefs based on our experiances. That mine is flawed to you is no more verification of it's potential falseness than my perception of the flaws inherent in your system is to you.

I would love to see, by the way, the data you base your 10-1 claim on.

"And now I spend my days in ever increasingly complicated ways convincing myself of the rightness of each word I say" - mewithoutYou

Answer 2

The so-called encounters with Christ never happen to anyone, including atheists. You just have an experience which YOU attribute to Christ, but you don't actually see Christ. YOU don't know where the thought or feeling really comes from. YOU just choose to claim it came from Christ. Atheists go through the same experiences, and sometimes they choose to identify it with Christ. The difference is that atheists realize, after the glow wears off, that there is no real evidence that the experience had anything to do with a God. Most God-like experiences can be reproduced by man using higher levels of his mind. As a hardcore atheist, I had many experiences even to the extent of talking in tongues, and I can assure you that it does not take a believer to talk in tongues, or heal people. It just takes the use of our human capacities, and there is no need to claim they come from some mysterious God. They are abilities that any human has, and all he has to do is learn how to tap into those natural abilities.

Answer 3

I heard a voice speaking to me when I went into shock following a parachuting accident. It appeared to be what you would call Jesus or an angel, etc. But it also may have been a delirious brain hallucinating while going into shock.

But regardless of what it was, that doesn't change the fact that I KNOW the Christian bible is nonsense, and has been proven false. So any connection between my experience, and this deeply flawed book of mythology, is inconsequential.

In essence, as an atheist, I don't particularly care if there's a god or not. But I do KNOW that the popular religion, Christianity, is false. So I'm not afraid of the rules your bible states about non-believers going to hell.


Edit - Hey PICOLET, I'd just like to point out... I was a believer who set out to prove atheists wrong. And guess what happened to me? And believe me, for every atheist that gets "converted" by studying religion, there are ten believers that become atheists. You can't deny the glaring proof against god. All you can do is remain ignorant of it...

Answer 4

I suppose Christ might have crossed paths with one or two in his life. It would not surprise me if someone from the Roman authorities in Jerusalem at the time were indeed an atheist.

By the way, we have no evidence that Pontius Pilate was an atheist, even though there is ample evidence of his cruelty.

Answer 5

Yes, I have an atheist friend who met Jesus working as a busboy at the IHOP on 435 and Shawnee Mission Parkway.

Answer 6

Being that "christ" was just a man, no atheists today could have had an encounter with him. Jesus was just the TV Evangelist of his time.

Answer 7

Pontius Pilate?

Answer 8

Not personally, but I did a yahoo search for ex-atheists, and their are ALOT of personal sites up about them, groups, and personal testimony about how they came to know God. Really cool stories on some of them.

Answer 9

No, just a hardcore porn star who had a real encounter with aids.

Answer 10

I used to get the feeling you mean when I went to church. My grandfather was the pastor and after he died and I stopped getting it, I saw that the feeling wasn't god or the holy spirit, but love for my grandpa.