testimonies of a changed life, healed sicknesses and diseases, answered prayers, and God's presence over their life by God, ever wonder at that or any explanation?
2006-07-05 12:04:48 · 12 answers · asked by *♥£öVe§♥* 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I can answer this question from two perspectives. From one perspective, when I was a non-believer I ignored many testimonies. I thought that if God was all-powerful He would make his existence crystal-clear to me - that until then I would pursue money/pleasure as I saw fit. From another perspective, I became a believer because of the testimonies I heard from others - I might not have heard them at the time, but I heard them all eventually. I found, in the middle of an otherwise ordinary day, a tremendous urge to consider why I fought Christianity for so long. I can't list all the things that happened in the course of that day, but it included so many things that would individually be statistically improbable that collectively I would call them impossible except for the presence of God's will. Nothing pointed to other religions - everything pointed to Jesus. I now feel foolish to have waited, but I'm forever thankful for every testimony and prayer that helped me to turn to Jesus Christ.
2006-07-05 12:33:48 · answer #1 · answered by In God I Trust (a.k.a. infohog) 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't wonder. Because a lot of people from other religions have just as valid testimonies of changed lifes thru other gods. The sick healed, answered prayers, etc... These things are not unique to one religion. They happen in all of them.
2006-07-05 19:08:01 · answer #2 · answered by Kithy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term "nonbelievers" is a little extreme. Simply because one does not believe the way you do,does not in essence characterize them as a "nonbeliever". They may have a spiritual path of Buddhism, Wicca, etc...clearly they are still believers just not of your God.
We(those you term a nonbeliever) only ignore people who try to slam their religion into our faces, without nary a thought as to listening to our beliefs and why we hold them so dear. Unless you are willing to hear how we believe and accept the fact that even if you offered us $1,000 to change our spiritual path, we won't, because we are just as invested in our faith as you are in yours, then maybe we can listen to your side too. If we decide your side makes more sense to us on a personal level, then great we will convert in our own personal time frame. HOWEVER, if we do NOT agree, please stop bombarding us with pamphlets and biblical verses and just be on your merry way. No harm, no foul everyone is happy and life goes on.
There is no right religion. There is only one TRUE religion for EVERY INDIVIDUAL. If people were more educated about and more accepting of, other's beliefs regardless of whether one agrees with them or not, I think the world would be a much nicer place to live. Most bloodshed(wars, abortion clinics, ..etc..) is based on religious bias and some twisted ideas that one's religion is the only way and those who do not believe the same shall perish.
sad, but true. :(
2006-07-05 20:17:14 · answer #3 · answered by Fiona70 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a good question. What I have always wondered was how these people think that these "signs" are from God etc.. All the stories that I have heard people tell seem more like freak things that have occurred in their lives and that these people WANTED to believe they were more so that their lives don't seem so meaningless. So I wouldn't say that I ignore them, I'll listen but after that it goes in one ear and out the other I suppose.
No disrespect intended.
2006-07-05 19:11:28 · answer #4 · answered by Tiffany_XVIII 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to wonder thats why i became an atheist i thought about what the people around me said and realized it made no sense, there are other explanations for people being healed and prayers being answered.
2006-07-05 22:42:43 · answer #5 · answered by bobatemydog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Sure, religion can change a person's life for the better, I belive that. That doesn't mean that it would work for me. I personally don't think that I could ever truely believe in any sort of major, corporate religions -- I'd have to actually MEET God, and he'd have to be really, really cool. Like, cooler than Jimi Hendrix!
2006-07-05 19:10:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mind is a powerful, powerful thing -
I give a lot of credit to faith...and belief.
I remember seeing a faith healer in the Philippines...
people would go to him with a mysterious, debilitating illness...
he would "knead" and massage their belly, chanting and praying, until you saw blood...
then he would draw a horrific looking piece of meat from the body of the afflicted person...
clean them up...and they were cured.
The blood was tested and identified as pigs blood...not the blood of the person being healed...
the man was exposed as a charlatan and put out of business...
It bothered me because...if it was working...why question...why expose...why stop it.
People believed in his magic, his faith in God, he was healing.
I don't think non-believers ignore testimony...
I think they discount the ability for the mind to heal...regardless the conduit...sheer belief, or faith in God, or Allah...
It makes no sense to simply wonder about the powers of faith and religion...you have to believe...with all your heart...in order to understand.
2006-07-06 02:29:20 · answer #7 · answered by Warrior 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I often wonder about it but most of the time i ignore it because i believe that the person is just fooling themselves and if it makes them happy then I am cool with it.
2006-07-05 19:09:03 · answer #8 · answered by Douglas G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do Christians care about my Atheist testimony and how Atheism freed me?
2006-07-05 19:08:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is irrelevant.
Do you suppose that people who follow other religions do not have similar experiences?
Do you suppose that odd things do not happen to everyone, regardless what they believe?
Your conclusions are illogical.
You filter out the "bad" things that happen to "believers" so you can support your own beliefs.
2006-07-05 19:10:43 · answer #10 · answered by Left the building 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋