Have you experienced something that's made you believe in god, if so what? In this day and age does it take a miracle for us to believe? Do we maybe use god as an excuse for the way things in our life turn out and does this encourage our beliefs?
A 12 year old cousin of ours got a brain tumour and after several operations they opened him up to try a drug that was only availiable in America, when they did there was only scaring there, the tumour had gone and people in the family were hailing it a miracle, unfortunately though at his next checkup they found 2 other tumours and he died last month.
2006-10-16 08:14:33 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry i should have made it clear, i always felt that my faith was strong enough and that my cousin would be going to a better place, i just noticed the difference in those that didn't believe when they thought there had been a miracle.
2006-10-16 09:12:20 · update #1
Sure, but some people deem it as being "lucky". Religious experiences probably are a high percentage of why people turn to Christianity. Especially when a miracle has occurred. Like a vehicular accident that the victims walk away, etc. I do believe that everything happens for a reason.
My personal experience, though, is that the way I was living my life wasn't getting me anywhere, since I made some pretty bad decisions. Becoming a Christian showed me the reality that I can't do it on my own. And yes, it is faith.
2006-10-16 08:24:38 · answer #1 · answered by seeya 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fair play to you. That is a difficult and funny question. You have obviously had a rough time recently. Unfortunately we as finite beings cannot understand the infinite creator and first mover. We do try to. It is hard in the face of death or trauma to be able to understand why things happen, especially if our God is suppose to be all loving. Your question raises the problem of why the doctors missed the other tumour etc etc. I would rather say no more, as I do not feel qualified to do so. You need to ask a proper theologian those questions. Spoofs on this medium will not help you, judging by some of the answers I have seen earlier.
2006-10-16 08:34:11 · answer #2 · answered by Ultimate 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't become a Christian until I had a spiritual experience. I was at a friend's baptism and was skeptical, but by the end of the service I had my eyes opened and got filled with the Holy Spirit, and my depression was cured too.
I have prayed for non-believers and seen them healed, but they haven't gone on to believe afterwards, even though they can't explain how it happened.
Sorry about your cousin.
2006-10-16 08:21:26 · answer #3 · answered by good tree 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it takes a personal experience in a person's life to make them believe, then something's wrong. There's only one event, one experience that ever happened to show proof of Christ's love for us, God's love for us.
God commendeth his love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ DIED for us.
You have someone die for you, and yet, it gets shunned, due to someone else's medical experience? That'd never cut it. Nothing here will ever do it. It's all just heresay, uncertainty, unsureity, incompleteness that would eventually drive one crazy.
Better to put one's faith in an event that was literal, real, meant everything to your soul salvation, and will come with the most benefit to all when you reach for your last breath one day, and it doesn't come.
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.
Believe in his death, burial, and resurrection. His blood paid for your sins in full, his resurrection was for justification for all, and the last thing that's to be going on today, is.........medical mumbo jumbos, personal mumbo jumbos, unknown mumbo jumbos, uncertain mumbo jumbos, etc....
2006-10-16 08:22:52 · answer #4 · answered by The (1Cor.15:1-4) Ambassador 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fortunately some people can actually heal themselves through positive thinking ; I don't consider it to be a miracle in itself. I think it is a miracle that we exist at all as humanity. LOL
2006-10-16 08:19:27 · answer #5 · answered by alec c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only being born again by God can make people believe but often God will use experience to strengthen and assure or chasten those who are slow to believe.
2006-10-16 08:18:50 · answer #6 · answered by beek 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our beliefs are based on evidence and quality of evidence. that evidence can come from reliable witnesses. who is more reliable than our parents and so we tnd to grow up with religious beliefs. But they will often be destroyed when we rebel or at least temporarily interupted when we rebel as teenagers.
2006-10-16 08:21:59 · answer #7 · answered by Mike10613 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pentecostal and charismatic religions say yes.
2006-10-16 08:19:14 · answer #8 · answered by HazelEyes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've had multiple near-death and out-of-body experiences, and let me tell you, I'm still an atheist.
2006-10-16 08:16:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No
2006-10-16 08:17:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋