1. talked to you personally and did something to prove that he/she/it was God by stoping time or something that breaks the laws of physics, would you become a believer or would you still be skeptical?
2. come down to earth more often? lets... say twice a year. Then people would have no reason not to believe but we still have free will.
2006-06-30 06:03:54 · 23 answers · asked by Human 2.1 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How about this?
Why doesn't god just give everyone the same dream / vision at the same time? Doesn't have to be long, just a simple little message. That would seem like a simple thing to do and imagine the consequences!!
It would change the world overnight, I would be a believer.
So I wait..... and I wait..... and I wait.....
P.S. Christians love to use the F word, don't they ?
2006-06-30 06:15:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Once I was made absolutely certain that I had not been drugged or gone insane I would gladly become a believer.
The important question for me would be whether or not with the proof of god's existence I would be required to take part in the intolerance towards gay people, engage in the bloodlust exhibited by many of the faithful, and become someone completely different. I don't know what I would do if he turned out to be the god of Sam Brownback or George Bush.
2006-06-30 07:29:10 · answer #2 · answered by wrathpuppet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To answer #2, God does but not in the way that human beings expect or demand. It's just like praying to God but not getting the answer you wanted or at the time you want it making you think He either ignored you or didn't answer your question. Those who are spiritually advanced will be more perceptive to the more subtle and everyday signs of God's divine presence as He works through us and for us. Human beings are so bent on expecting God to come down and prove Himself to us by appearing in the form of man or some glowing, brilliant unexplained entity that we overlook the fact that God is everywhere and in everyone who accept Him and His gifts freely.
Pay attention to the many things you'd consider to be mere luck but yet happen in such a way that you know it has to be something beyond luck such as how people you know endure extreme hardships and come out from it as a good, stronger (mentally, spiritually and / or physically) happy or healthy person instead of someone embittered or mean that you'd believe would be impossible to endure.
2006-06-30 06:17:55 · answer #3 · answered by Drew 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says, "Many will call my name and work miracles in my name, but I will not know them."
There have been many quacks and false-prophets since the world was made. Unfortunately, they all try and seduce our ignorant human tendency to flock toward "magic tricks." The Bible is very clear on the signs of what we will see to identify the True Second Coming of Christ.
Watch for many things, but one of the most evident is the rebuilding of the Great Temple in Jerusalem. A Mosque now stands on the building site of Solomon's Great Temple. That mosque will be taken down and the Great Temple rebuilt.
If you are still here after millions and millions of people mysteriously disappear off the face of the earth all at the same time-----then you missed the boat and will live through one of the most horrible times in history.
2006-06-30 06:12:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God makes Himself known to me every day. I can pray to Him anytime since I am a born again spirit filled Christian. It is promised that I can come boldly before the Throne of Grace in the time of need. God directs my path every day because I ask Him to and I don't want to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Actually God told me to seek him 1st thing in the morning through the Spiritual prayer & bible study. Because I need His guidance through the day. I have been in trouble when I had disobeyed Him in this area before.
God speaks to me through His written Word, His Holy Spirit & Gifts & Fruits of. I can hear His voice at times, whether is is the Father, Son or the Holy Spirit (each is different, though God is one) I have even recently had a message from the guardian angel of a niece who was concerned She might die, if she made the mistake she was planning to do, without knowing the Lord as Her personal Savior. I can feel His Love or discipline. I have had visions & dreams. So He can touch me physically to get my attention. He is actually possessive over me.
Then I seek God on what I am soppose to do and follow through.
2006-06-30 06:35:15 · answer #5 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith in our beliefs comes from making many, many repeated observations which are consistent with those beliefs. I believe my wife loves me because I have seen clear and consistent evidence for this over the ten-plus years of our marriage. Similarly, I have faith in gravity and other laws of physics because of many millions of observations over my lifetime.
I would never develop a belief in God, or any other life-changing belief, based on a single observation or series of observations. I would probably conclude that I was hallucinating or being deceived by an illusionist or witnessing some sort of advanced technology. Belief in God would only come from a consistent period of observations which were best explained by the existence of such a being.
I'm not holding my breath.
2006-06-30 06:16:43 · answer #6 · answered by Steven S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If God were to come down and talk with me then I would believe he is real....that does not mean I would worship him. I would have a lot of questions to ask about what his true beliefs are before that would happen.
2006-06-30 06:08:01 · answer #7 · answered by Lisa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm agnostic, bordering on atheism... I don't really believe, I guess I do somewhat. I'd believe he was real if he came down and talked to me, but that'll never happen, so I will believe what I want to believe, and I won't be having other people push their beliefs on me, I hate it more than anything when people do that. You have the right to believe what you want.
2006-06-30 06:08:29 · answer #8 · answered by * 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus did come down to earth, and He walked around doing miracles all the time. and people still did not believe Him. people actually said He was using magic or witchcraft. and two days after he died, His disciples forgot all about Him and went back to fishing.
there is a story in the Bible about a man, who was very mean and snobby, and when he died he went to hell. this man asked for permission to go back to earth and warn his buddies. he was told, "they have Moses and the prophets. if they don't believe them, they won't believe you."
2006-06-30 06:09:27 · answer #9 · answered by cirque de lune 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist and I would become a believer. I probably wouldn't be very religious or go to church or anything like that but i would believe.
2006-06-30 06:09:06 · answer #10 · answered by nep1293 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋