Can you pinpoint one single thing or episode that brought you to believe or disbelieve in God or a Creator?

Question

Just curious. Again all polite answers will be politely read and all rude, vulgar answers will be politely ignored. Thanks
Peace Be With You,
Debra

Vulgar to me is impolite or foul language, once I see these I disregard.

For those worried about my soul, relax I do believe but am curious about others.

Answer 1

I can't pin point just one experience in my knowing God is real - there have been so many.
Probably the biggest, my mom was healed of a very serious illness on her death bed and she was healed immediately after being prayed for.

Answer 2

well, i took a look at the evolutionary theory...wow, what an amazing theory, but..its amazing how much stupidity is in it.....look at the human eye, think, it can see spherical and round objects, depth, and the ability to take in certain amounts of light...to think that all happend by a random chance is highly unblelievable, also with the bird, it has its highly advanced lung system, and its hallow bones, they say the bird came from reptiles, reptiles did not have hallow bones, or that advanced lung system, and you cant say the bird just adapted new lungs, how many birds died before they got the lungs? they would have all died because they wouldnt have been able to breath at the high altitudes......i believe in God and what the bible says due to the science in the bible, some people say the bible was probably just written by some drunk guy, but how many drunkies can you see walk a straight line or do science? With the Big Bang theory......ya right!!!!!! how does a whole bunch of nothingness get hot with no fuel or starter? there was no match, and no chemical explosion because chemicals were not created yet, they came after the explosion, so how did it explode, and not only that, the theory states that the the "nothingness" exploded into frictionless space and then slowed down and started spinning...uh...thats believable....there is more chance of a higher being who has a book with science in it compared to these dumb theories that break the laws of pshyics ....how bout the "Second Law Of Thermal Dynamics" that one totally goes against these theories!

Answer 3

Debra, I've had two in the past 15 years. One was a near death experience after having serious intestinal surgery.
I went thru the tunnel, came into the most beautiful garden I've ever seen in my life. Felt and heard the ones who had passed on before me, but was surrounded by the most loving, peaceful white light who told it wasn't my time yet and I would come back when I had done everything I needed to do. My late grammas were arguing with it on my behalf.

The other was being in South Africa on the Kirschetenbosch mountains for a carol service with the Cape Town Symphony. As it got darker and darker and the voices of the chorus and people singing Silent Night around me, all races and all ages, for a brief moment we were one, no socioeconomic differences, no racial or religious differences. We all held candles and were one spirit and it was then I felt the prescence of God and real goodwill and peace on earth.

Was extremely happy to be able to be there and share it with my friends.

Answer 4

I don't think there is one such episode. I am not a typical former believer who quit religion after a traumatic experience. It's not like that. I'm an unbeliever because that's how I was brought up. I mean, my parents gave us full liberty, while we were children and teenagers, to choose any religion, or none at all. My father is an atheist, and my mother is a believer, but she doesn't go to church. I just thought it made no sense (for me, at least) to join a religion. Besides, I have found it made no change for me if I believed or not. And even more, the believers I came across in my life seemed rather narrow-minded (not that EVERY believer is, just those I met). So, I thought I'd rather not be like that. And that's why I don't believe in God.

Answer 5

Well, I grew up Catholic and I remember from the age of 6 not believing in what they were telling me in church. So, for more than 20 years I didn't believe in God. I believed in something, I just didn't know what.

Recently I have been reading alot of Sylvia Browne's books. She is a very religious and spiritual person. (she is a gnostic christian) I won't go into everything she says, but basically she has love and admiration for all religions and feels that we should respect them all. That there is plenty to learn from all of our worlds great religions.

So, that is how I have always felt also. I guess that I was really feeling frustrated with how sooooo many religious people claim that theirs is the only way and everyone else is wrong. How is that showing love?

Uhhh.... I hope I answered your question. :)

Answer 6

yes strangely enough
I beleived in god and Jesus most of my life, but there was one night in particular, after many years of seeking after truth so as to be a better christian,prayer and struggle, that I finally realised.... I never ever knew if any of it was actually true.
It felt like my eyes had been opened, really. It was like my whole perspective on life just 'shifted' a bit. Its hard to explain
but the next day, life seemed to have more meaning, in that it had no meaning. It was liberating to see that I actually was not important.
i was 'free' because I finally realised I didnt know anything
In a sense, I was born again, and unlearned everything and became like a child.
anyway.. my words wont do it justice.
thats the best for now
and now i am an atheist

Answer 7

good que Debra, for me I was on a rooftop getting ready to jump here I was newly married going thru so much health wise so full of hate when there should have been such joy. I hated God and most everyone else especially myself. I was in the hospital my roommate was a christian and not one that played church she was the real deal the first I had ever seen. She told me she was a christian and I told her where to go that if she even talked to me about God I'd hurt her. She didn't but she talked to everyone else and for the first time in my life I heard about this God that's full of love, compassion and mercy so on that rooftop instead of jumping I said God if you're real I need u. for me the change was instanateous the peace joy the love that filled my heart. That's been over 15 years and i wouldn't trade my walk for anything. (still married too and very happy and blessed) ty JESUS!!

Answer 8

I guess for me, belief in God was not something that happened in a blinding flash, but rather, a slow process, like a flower opening to the sun.
There have been some milestones along that road, though. I remember when our science teacher told us that energy could not be destroyed. That was a major milestone! Suddenly, I could see so much more than I had ever seen before!

Answer 9

I can't pinpoint exactly when i stopped believing in god but i know when i started questioning my faith. I was about 10 and i was at my aunts house hanging out with my fave cousin (love him 2 bits :_-) ) and we where talking about god and he said he didn't believe in god, he thought when u are dead that's it ur dead, i was so upset, i had never heard anyone say that before, i didn't even know atheism was an option, i cried for hours cause i was so scared for him. It's when i seriously started questioning why i believed, if the only reason i believed was because i didn't know of any other options. 10 years later i am an atheist, took me 7 of those to figure it out.

Answer 10

one night, for no particular reason, I put a bullet in my head. I passed out between the rails of the train tracks. when the morning sun woke me up, I knew there was nothng to do but to get some coffee and forget about the headache.

after getting up off the tracks and walking just a few yards, a train came speeding down the tracks.

I knew then that God wasn't ready for me to leave this world