I often question Christian's testimonies and every story was exaggerated and it all ended up being just a story they didn't understand
2006-08-04 13:14:00 · 11 answers · asked by Black Atheist 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am a Christian, but I know where you are coming from. I believe that we find God in a quiet stillness within our hearts. We should not base our faith on things we see that don't make sense to us and that we therefore deem "miraculous".
2006-08-04 13:22:23 · answer #1 · answered by arcanefairy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the six and a half years I have been of The Christian Faith I have tried repetedly to record my testimony. I have never been able to adiquatly relate it... The emmotions were too great for me to ever hope to be able to write it properly... I can barely get it out when I try to talk about it... No one can fully undersand such an experience if it is the real thing... It is far too powerful in the emmotional sense..
By what standard do you judge what you call exageration?.. And if you were not present how can you know?...and more importantly...How can you presume to be able to measure anothers emmotions?
you are clearly judging from a prejudiced position... you do not believe it is possable so you assume what is reported is false.
Sad... very sad. that kind of thinking causes so much trouble in the world..It starts more trouble that the non-believers say the "religion" starts
2006-08-04 20:29:12 · answer #2 · answered by IdahoMike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally I attribute experiences -- good or bad, understandable or beyond -- all to God. Nothing happens unless He permits it. Therefore experiencing God is an 24/7 ongoing feature in life, just that most of the time we take it for granted. This is shown in our vocabulary -- "normal", "common", "routine",etc.
Only when deviations catch our attention. But then our intelligence and imagination may not be adequate to give meaning to these experiences.
Then that's when the difference between a God-believer and non-believer set in: Christians place their trust in the characters of an unchanging God (love, faithfulness, just,etc) and cling on; non-believer may conclude that this is a crazy world that you can't make sense of.
2006-08-04 20:40:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that you question these testimonies, does not make it a fact that they are exaggerated. How do you come to that conclusion without knowing the individuals?
2006-08-04 20:20:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your post was a question i couldn't understand...and i'm GUESSING your account of 'every story was an exaggeration' was an exaggeration and just a story that you made up because YOU didn't understand...it's okay, some people look at a forest and see board-feet of lumber, others see a home...
2006-08-04 20:26:28 · answer #5 · answered by spike missing debra m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the occurrence. If something happens to me in such a way that it's consistent with what I've learned of God from the Bible, then I'll look at it as God's handiwork, but there are other circumstances in which I just shrug my shoulders and say, "Beats me what happened."
2006-08-04 20:19:09 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me it is because God Himself lets me, know that I know, it is Him.
The understanding part I found out is if I asked God about it and it is my business to know then He tells me otherwise it is none of my business.
So if I don't understand it I don't need it.
2006-08-04 21:38:22 · answer #7 · answered by jackiedj8952 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unexplainable peace, love, joy
2006-08-04 20:20:08 · answer #8 · answered by cristoamistad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the problem is ,you cant believe in the story no cant understand it!!!!!!!!
2006-08-04 20:24:02 · answer #9 · answered by SOMY 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uh... cuz people don't fully understand god?
2006-08-04 20:20:28 · answer #10 · answered by Chris K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋