Has any nonbeliever in Christ ever encountered a moment when they 'almost' believed?

Question

If so, please, describe that moment.

Answer 1

I find it difficult to equate Jesus Christ with God. I am not denying that he existed, and was indeed an inspirational and spiritual man. So, if I replace the word 'Christ' in your question with the word 'God', then I believe in the famous quotation that 'there are no athiests on a battlefield'. Metaphorically speaking. Anyone who has ever been in a bad situation will pray for a miracle. Maybe not to Jesus Christ, but to God.

Answer 2

Yes!

I was eleven or so, jumping around from giant haybale to haybale in the field behind our farm. (You know those big round bales...they were all in a row like a couple feet apart each). Anyway, it had rained the day before and so the layer of hay right under the top was kinda slick. I got going too fast, slid across the last haybale in the row and began to plummet headfirst over the edge towards what I imagined would be my death. Suddenly, I STOPPED..hanging out right over the edge.
A miracle! I believe in God! An angel just saved me! So this is why people are religious!

Seconds later, I realized that my foot had become entwined in the baling twine around the bale and it was what was firmly holding me in place. In fact, simple physics could explain the entire incident.

And that is when I stopped believing in god.

Answer 3

I almost joined a "religion" that said it was The church of Jesus Christ.... I praise and thank God he stopped me and gave me all the time I needed to come to The Church of which Jesus The Christ is truly The Head.

avoid the Lost and Decieved of Satan(LDS) at all cost.

They can make it sound so good...and there are many very good people in that cult... but they are decieved.... they do many great things in their communities...and they claim to be so family oriented...they are very slick and well versed when they come to your door... so friendly and seeming to care...even I as a former door-to-door salesman was almost fooled by them... but do your own study from all that is available in any public library not controled by them... they have nothing to hold up what they claim...

I would have been lost to God had I not looked abit more behind what they were saying...how close I came to being lost for eternity

Answer 4

Well, if it counts, I like many others was indoctrinated into religion and was a pretty devout kid.

When I got older and went to school and started reading about science on my own in my teens I realised all the religion I had been taught didn't make any sense and I had been brainwashed.

Never looked back.

Answer 5

I quit going to church when I was about twelve. Since then I survived Pearl Harbor and the fight from France until we met the Russians in Czechoslovakia. When the shells were pouring in like rainfall, my thoughts were about the so-and-so schweinhunds, not Gods or angels.

Answer 6

I rejected the Jesus and god presented in the bible and had an epiphany that I wasn't rejecting the real Jesus and the real God; I was rejecting the made-up ego versions of Jesus and God. It's exactly like Westerners looking at the ego version of God in the Islamic terrorist's mind and saying that that isn't god; the same thing with the ego god in the bible. When I finally got rid of that, I had some positive experiences of the reality of Jesus.

Answer 7

Nope

Answer 8

How can you "almost" believe. You can either believe or not believe. So you must not be stable with not believing, and probably see proof and actually are acting by spiritual notion if you are "almost" believing. But then your ignorant self says no.

Answer 9

yes, that moment lasted 16 years, and there was no "almost". Then I started wondering about things faith couldn't answer adequately and that faith dwindled.

Answer 10

Nope.