Anyone that doesnt believe in God, then reads the bible will find more ways to defend that idea. Have you ever seriously asked God to come in to your life for a time, and didnt get an answer, so it made you know there was no God?
2006-10-25 06:18:33 · 20 answers · asked by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Just curious. I was atheist. I wasnt raised with any religious background. I hadnt heard of God until I was 11, and then I was like, uh, ok. Then I became spiritual, wiccan, universal, then christian, then atheist, then spiritual, then i studied all religions, now I am a christain again, Weird huh.
2006-10-25 06:32:29 · update #1
Yes, I tried really hard actually. I tried alot of ways to let him speak to me. I laid out the fleece outside overnight and asked for a sign. Nothing. I was raised by a Baptist Minister and his equally religious spouse, so I have responded to many alter calls, and nothing has ever come into my heart and made me feel like there was a god that cared about me. I still ask sometimes to be shown something, no luck so far. So, he's not real, or I'm not wanted. Either way we're not speaking.
2006-10-25 07:00:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My dear atheists are born out of knowledge, not dogma. I can list for you gods throughout the history of mankind that people, who knew nothing of science, would have believed in with more certainty and more faith then any modern day christian, muslim, or jew. Many of these gods had a great influence on the beliefs you claim to be original and unaltered.
But one thing remains the same. Since the tree of Knowlege kicked Adam and Eve out of paradise so has Enlightenment been the enemy of faith.
Faith can not exist to the logical mind. Think about how ridiculous some of the stories your told are. Men walking on water and parting seas. If I were to tell you this for the first time ever today would you still believe this. Of course not.
So as we enter a new age of enlightenment I present this idea to you. Most atheists like myself were once a part of your faith. Some of us evangelicals in the worst way. However something made us see that we had been wrong all along but that is was okay to not have all the answers because eventually we as the human race will figure it out.
Before you offer another question of this type why not see for yourself what it is we are seeing. You don't need science, you need only history. Start at the beginning and work you way forward. Open your mind to the possiblity that maybe you are not right after all.
2006-10-25 13:37:59 · answer #2 · answered by gatewlkr 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually..i think that there is only one and yes he/she hears every prayer in it's sincerity. God moves when he/she is ready and seems to always be on time. It's a very bad idea to become an atheist because in the end, God is coming for the BELIEVERS. As far as the Bible...its the most important book worldwide, but due to the possibilities of false prophets back then, it may have been tampered with...thus causing many people to feel misled.
2006-10-25 13:26:42 · answer #3 · answered by Miss Jet Black 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I asked God to deliver takeout chicken. No chicken ever showed up. It seemed like a simple request that any high school student could perform. Its just another example of the fact prayer almost never works
2006-10-25 13:31:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist and I do read the Bible and I'm willing to let god talk to me but god doesnt exist and hasnt
if im wrong come talk to me god
still waiting
2006-10-25 13:35:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any answer would either be selective and interpretive cognition, delusion or self-deception. I know there is no god, at least none as posited by the major religions because there is no evidence of a god of that sort.
2006-10-25 13:33:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I *have* read the bible. I found it to be a very interesting book of old tribal law and folklore. There are parts that are breathtakingly beautiful and parts that made me furious.
I found no evidence in it to support the existence of the god it talks about, any more that I am finding evidence to support believing in Hera and Zeus in the book of Greek legends I am currently reading.
2006-10-25 13:24:11 · answer #7 · answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Raised Christian, studied religions at university and in seminary, practiced a few and converted to one.
So I actually have a pretty good basis for saying that I just don't buy it anymore.
2006-10-25 13:26:02 · answer #8 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lots of Athiests became that AFTER leaving the Christian church.
Why do so many people believe that if you're an Athiest, that they couldn't have heard about Jesus.
They don't want to hear about it. How rude.
2006-10-25 13:45:30 · answer #9 · answered by AmyB 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yep. I was Christian once, too. But I believe in Love, and I know no loving deity would behave the way the Christian deity does.
Now I'm a Taoist.
2006-10-25 13:25:34 · answer #10 · answered by KC 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋