How many of you believed in God but changed your minds? How many of you were athiest?

Question

then found God? I was a disbeliever myself for 25 years, i would ridicule believers as crackpots who believe in things that were not proven, then I experienced the supernatural, and from there its not even about belief, because I KNOW something is here. Tell me how you can be so sure there is not, when I am so sure that there is?

i have no religion and i do belive in evolution, i am not ashamed to be distant cousins to monkeys because i feel God loves them also.

Answer 1

Most kids brought up with parents who 'believe' will have that same belief drilled into them, either deliberately or they will just pick up as they go along that this is the thing to do!
Its only when they are old enough to question the situation for themselves that they can really make up their own minds.
I made mine up when I was about 10 years old, it didn't really take a lot of brain cells to figure out that the whole deal was a load of 'tosh'!
Before I figured it out I was a church goer, in the choir,performed all the required rituals etc etc, what a load of rubbish , I wish I had been taught at school about all the different religions on the planet, I could have made up my mind a lot earlier.
How can I be sure that there is no God and you are equally certain that there is????
There is no way I (or anyone else) can explain that to you, I could ramble on about 'logic' you could give me quotes from one or two of your 'Holy books' and say meaningless things like " Look around you at the lovely birds and the bees"! But at the end of it all there is no way I am going to change your mind, and no way you are going to change mine.
For a very long time I have been trying to work out a way or a 'happening' that would convince either of us, and I just cant.
I would be very interested in any ideas?
It would be interesting to know what religion you decieded on when you had this 'supernatural' experience, and why you think any religion is required at all? Cant you just believe in God, isnt that enough without needing any religion or 'teachers' or 'leaders'??
Thats the main bit that annoys me all the different groups even within one religion, all going their own sweet merry ways!
If any one wants to believe in God, good luck to them, they must feel a need to! I dont feel the need to, and I certainly have no time at all for any religious nutter groups!

Answer 2

I'm certain that you had a very powerful experience, but I submit to you that no experience can ever truly and completely either prove or disprove the existance of God. This is a mystery we will all have to live with for ever, and each of us is to stake our own claim as to what to believe. Here's why:

As we learn more about the brain, we are learning more about how we perceive. We have learned that everything you sense, everything you feel, smell, taste, hear, or see is only an interpretation of what's really happening. Your various nerve cells are stimulated and transmit electrical impulses up into your brain, where they are transformed into the sensations and mental imagery we all call awareness, consciouseness, or just plain being awake. We do not directly perceive the world around us, but instead filter various mixed sensory signals and sort them into some sort of coherent image of the world around us. If what we experience of reality is not an accurate representation of reality (and it isn't), then how can we really be sure of anything? This is why science has Uncertainty, and religion has Faith.

Answer 3

I used to be an atheist until i had some unexplained miracles. After these miracles i just sat down and thought everything through....after awhile, the only thing that made any since to me was God, it was the only answer i had for my soul. If you think about it, only a higher force could have made something like us so perfectly...it just can't be a mistake of nature. how can seeing, hearing, loving, etc come from particles in space? And also, everything has and end here, therefore it must have an origin. i'm more than perfect now that i've found God in my heart :) Blessed be, Val

Answer 4

I used to be an unbeleiver too. I didn't want to be associated with most of teh people who called themselves Chrsitains, because I knew them too well. In my limitted mind, I wound have rather be a true unbeliever than a hypocrite beleiver.
And then I met Jesus in a manner of speaking. And then I knew that just becasue I can't perceive God with my limitted sensors that doesn't prove that he didn't exist. Also, you can't just affirm thet you believe in science and empirical evidence, because science doesn't just exist by itself. Someone made those rules, someone made it to be this way instead of the other. Why any laws of science work the way they do and not backwards? If everything came from chaos, why isn't chaos ruling everything? Outside of the human mind, everything is in its place, with a purpose and steady. The only ones who don't accept the existence of God are soe humans who are afraid of expanding their horyzons for fear that they might be proven wrong. And for that they are willing to pay with their life. What a wasted life! People who say the Bible is a myth, are really ignoring all the evidence that actually support the validity of what the Bible describes and suggests. Perhaps the term of objest permanence was ignored in their early childhood when they were supposed to acquire the concept that just because something isn't seen or touched or smelled or heard or tasted, it doesn't mean it's not there. That's reason for you. Common sense is flaunted by them a lot, but they lack most of the chapters of it. I am nor being disrespectful, and I am not trying to convert any of them, but there's no logic to what they claim to be the basis foe what they believe, or don't. Simply put, I believe that the Atheist simply is exercising free will and rejecting God, and is in a chronic state of denial. That doesn't affect the reality though. There's evidence of God everywhere you turn, people today make a court case with less than that. Nobody can prove God doesn't exist, or that the Evolution ever took place, either. We're talking millions and billions of years ago, but we aren't able to produce one piece of evidence to support that. So it's really a matter of what everyone chooses to believe or adhere to.

Answer 5

this would possibly not answer your question yet i'm/replaced into of the theory that atheist usually had a unfavorable (probably somewhat insulting) connotation, as one that refuses/does no longer have faith in God/faith. i think of an agnostic could be extra probable to hit upon faith. I take that to be somebody who's open minded to the thought there could be a God/religious existence yet has no longer yet found adequate evidence to their satisfaction to end that some thing is so. in my view i'm unsure the place I lie in that admire. at present i'm incapable of believing the assertions made by capacity of persons of multiple faiths. it incredibly is an argument of very own theory and easily conversing i hit upon those concepts illogical yet do settle for that there could at some point be some thing which will substitute my place. Many subject concerns I even have are reconciling what I planned to be logical (medical?) tactics with that of non secular concepts, issues like human information (in terms of psychological progression) as unfavorable to the soul, creation/growth and destruction/decay in organic and organic words or metaphysical words, issues like that.

Answer 6

I was atheist for 15 years and assume there are many great Christians out there waiting to happen among the Atheists ranks. They make the best Christians in the end. Jus love um at this time cuz if they were not fairly smart they would not be an atheists and are most likely not likely to just believe what some preacher who has a personal agenda.

Answer 7

I was a devout Christian for the first two thirds of my life, I FELT CHrist's love all the time, I would wake up and give my life to him every morning, every hour, every minute. I've read every text I could find on apologetics. In short -- there was no shaking my faith. For four years, when protestants asked if I was born again, I answered perfectly sincerely, "YES, thanks for asking!"

The more I studied though, in the fields of physics, computer science, and psychology, the more I realized it was all bogus. The first nail in the coffin of religion for me was realizing that free will doesn't exist -- it's an illusion at best. Without free will, theism simply makes no sense.

It wasn't an easy journey to atheism, but I'm far stronger for having made that journey.

If your new beliefs work for you, more power to you. They no longer work for me, I'm certain of where I am.

Answer 8

I've been exposed to the Bible and thought I was worshipping God all my life, but the surprising thing to me is that every time I experience His supernatural power, I am always shocked and scared to see that "there is a God." Because then, if it's true, uh-oh!-He knows all about me - I haven't been fooling him, and He loves me so much that I really should give my heart to Him instead of just talking about it.

Answer 9

I've never believed, although I claimed to when I was young and too afraid to say anything. I honestly didn't know atheism was an option when I was a child--I thought something was wrong with me because I didn't believe in god.

"Tell me how you can be so sure there is not, when I am so sure that there is?" I am equally sure that there is no Easter bunny, even though my sister's niece and nephew are CERTAIN of its existence.

Answer 10

I used to be a christian but after so long I changed my mind. I'm not an athiest and I believe in god and that there was a man named Jesus, but I just don't worship god like others. I have my own beliefs that I find to be more acceptable (to me anyways).