For a long time I didn't, then this happened to me.
Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.
While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.
Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.
I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.
I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.
I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.
Your brother don
2006-11-10 13:03:37
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answered by Anonymous
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I'm not going to hate you for asking this, I'm just going to hate the fact that
a) you're mutilating the deceased equine,
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b) you don't know how to use the search function.
But I'll bite anyway.
No, I do not believe in your god. Your god, as far as I am concerned, does not and cannot possibly exist.
First, if there is a God, he's incredibly incompetent and/or malevolent. Wars, famine, pestilence, disease, telemarketers, natural disasters, Cirque du Soleil... these are NOT things that should be in the credentials of a Supreme Being.
Secondly, it is logically impossible for any entity to be all-knowing and all-powerful at the same time. If an entity knows the future, it cannot change it. Omnipotence is cancelled out.
Thirdly, this God's fan club isn't all that pleasant. Mosey around Y!A for a while and you'll see what I mean. On the majority, they are arrogant, self-righteous, willfully ignorant, and/or antihumanistic. I speak from personal experience.
Finally, I see no reason to believe in your god. I'm perfectly happy living my life as it is. I have a wonderful little boy, a job that I love, and people that care about me. I'm not "lost", I'm not miserable because I don't have Christ in my soul, hell, I don't even have a soul. I'm not going into any afterlife when I die, and if I am, I really don't care because it's impossible to know about it anyway. This is the only life I have and I had better live it that way.
Can you deal with that?
2006-11-10 21:06:48
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes, I believe in God. The main reason.....well, there are too many "coincidences" that occur which connect people to one another. Example: Someone has a dream there son Johnny died in a car accident. They are awakened from this dream by the door bell....it's the police to deliver the bad news. Okay, how did this happen? If you admit that the two people were close and somehow connected on a mental level, well that is not a physical thing. How could they be connected in this manner? Once you admit there could be a supernatural reason, you admit the possibility of God. It had to be something which can't be explained scientifically.
This is a simple example that has occurred with even more convincing stories and many more less convincing. The point being, it happens too often to too many honest people for it to not be legit. Good luck on your search.
2006-11-10 21:04:30
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answered by Greenwood 5
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No, because I cannot believe without evidence. Not that I'm actually ASKING for that evidence. I really don't care if I believe or not. I'm only saying I cannot believe without evidence.
Think faith was a sweater. You'd say that you need it to be cold to wear it, right? That doesn't mean you WANT it to be cold, or that you're asking for it to be cold. You don't really mind if it's cold or not, but you're saying as long it's NOT cold, you aren't wearing that sweater. Well, this is the same. There may or may not be proof of god out there. I'm not interested in it. I am really indiferent to the answer to the question of god's existence. If that proof exists, and I ever happen to come across it, I might reconsider my beliefs. For the time being, though, I have no reason to believe (to wear a sweater) so I don't.
2006-11-10 21:14:44
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answered by Anonymous
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I love God with all my heart and soul. He has answered my prayers and made my life wonderful. I love witnessing for Him and I do it every day. I don't love God just because He answered my prayers, I loved Him before. He has saved me from eternal death. I was in a coma for a time and I know for a fact that He is real. I thank God every day and pray for those who need Him so very bad yet don't know Him.
2006-11-10 21:04:45
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answered by Anonymous
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YES ! I believe there is an Almighty God !! Why ? Genesis 1 : 1 .. In the beginning God created the heaven and earth .
2006-11-10 22:41:44
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answered by Anonymous
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I believe in God because I talk to him daily, he always listens and gives the best advice ever, he is always right there when I need him, even if my inferior human mind cannot recognize his presence at the moment. I believe in God, because I know that if he were not real I would be dead or worste, have come from a monkey. ;-p
2006-11-10 21:01:45
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answered by ? 4
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I don't believe in personal god(s) of mainstream religion.
But I am not leaving out the slight possiblity that the universe was created by something.
Knowing how vast the universe is the possiblity of this "god" paying any attention of us is pretty doubtful, silly and egotisitical.
If he was so great he wouldn't spend his time with a small planet orbiting a medicore star in a common spriral galaxy.
2006-11-10 20:58:47
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answered by Reload 4
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Yes, I believe in God. I can feel the presence of God, and God is what my soul longs for, and my soul finds fulfillment, so there must really be "God", or that for which my soul longs.
2006-11-10 21:09:11
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answered by Heron By The Sea 7
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No, not really. I don't see any reason to believe in God unless you were born into a religious family, you've been tricked, don't know any better, or you just want to believe in God. I mean,there's no basis behind a belief in God without faith, and I just can't have faith. That's just me, I prefer solid proof to what I want to be.
2006-11-10 21:04:02
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answered by Anonymous
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