What single moment has shaped your religious views the most?

Question

Open question to everyone. What really made you believe the way you do.

Answer 1

I was a passenger in my car going down the interstate. My husband was driving bad and I complained a few times. Finally I asked "why is it that just because you are the man, you always drive us? Why don't you just pull over and let me drive."

He agreed and pulled off at an exit and we changed at the gas station. I had only been driving a few minutes when I got this voice in my head that said "pull over and let Charley drive." I excused it as my own weird thinking and kept going. I then heard it again "Pull over and let Charley DRIVE" .

By then, I knew God (or his angels) were telling me this. I became upset about it because I thought I was being taught a lesson of submission which I didn't want to learn. I argued with God in my head. A third time, I heard "PULL OVER AND LET CHARLEY DRIVE."

At that point, I asked my husband "where should I pull over because I don't know why, but God is telling me to let you drive?"

Charley said to just pull to the top of the ramp and we would switch out there. We did so and he pulled back onto the ramp. but no sooner than we got up to speed, we had to stop in the middle of the interstate. There had been a major collision. We sat for about 3 hours and watched news hellicopters, life line, and all kinds of emergency vehicles ahead of us by like a mile. When we finally got through we saw a 3 car collision had happened and they were mangled. There had been deaths.

I knew right away it hadn't been about submitting to my husband at all, but about God or his angels letting me know of the danger ahead. I ws sure glad that I had been prayed up and reading the bible or I may have missed his voice.

Answer 2

I can't remember, as a child, not believing in Jesus. I publicly announced my belief at age 6. At age 38 I decided to read the end of the Book, Holy Bible. This changed me forever and opened my mind to the real plan for all people. I read this book Revelation from beginning to end. Through all the scary horrible events I got to the end. There it was, written as clear as the book in front of me. No more fear for me about death,future, the second coming of Jesus. Once I read about the Great Sabbath Rest, The 1000 year reign with Christ on earth with all the believers and no unbelievers I finally understood why we are here! And more clarity, at the end of the 1000 years will be the time of the new heaven and the new earth. The time of judgment and the books opened and those who rejected Jesus, and were in Hell will face the The Great White Throne Of Judgment and will be cast into the Lake of fire. Who but evil doesn't want to live on this earth for 1000 years without Satan,evil spirits, and demons, the influences that change people and control them??? People need to try the influences of the Holy spirit that changes people forever. Just call out to Jesus.
Thanks for asking.

Answer 3

I consider myself open to every religion. I remember when I was about 5, and I didn't know what it was to be Christian, or Jewish, or even Protestant, for although my mother was very religious and we went to mass every Sunday, as we used to treat everybody the same, I hadn't realised that there were any differences.
One day, at school, they were separating the kids according to their religion, and as my hair and skin were very fair, they decided that I should be jewish. One of the colleagues who used to be treated differently by the other kids became then my close friend. One day, we were returning home, and as she saw my house's porch, she saw a Virgin Mary statuet, and she became really angry, and told me I had been untruthful to her.
That's when my parents explained to me that there were people from different religion, like people came also from different countries.
A couple of years later, when I was attending Sunday school for my first communion, I got stuck with the idea that only baptized people went to Heaven. I couldn't believe God would be so unfair.
As soon as I could walk with my own feet, I decided to study as much as I could about other religions, and I ended up formulating my own view on that area.
I guess Love is the most important thing we can give and receive. Anything else can be achieved then.

Answer 4

I constantly ask creationists an identical question. Why is it that individuals of the different history, be it jap, chinese language, Indian, ect settle for the scientific consensus, yet basically people who already are fundamentalists Christians, Muslims or Jews declare the universe is 6000 years previous? they have the comparable evidence, precise? I even have in no way gotten a rapidly answer.

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

The first time I saw the Holy Quran and read it. IT was a strange feeling when I was first reading it. IT was like, wow, this makes more sense than anything I ever read before in the Bible. All of the answers to my questions were right there.

Answer 7

Beyond wisdom, philosophy, theology. When I heard Yeshua's message of agape (caring, patient, service orientated love), that cut through my mind and to my core. No other religion or philosophy can do that. You can talk in circles all day, this isn't an intelectual game like philosophy, but what it all really comes down to is the heart of the matter, and that is your heart.

Answer 8

It wasn't a single moment. I have been in bible study for ten years. Over that time, I have come to believe that I can trust the bible as God's word.

Answer 9

The moment when the Roman soldiers were pounding steel nails through the hands and feet of Jesus to attach Him to the cross, and He said "Father forgive them for they know not what they do". That's when I began to understand what love is, and GOD IS LOVE!

Answer 10

The badgering of Christians to somehow make other people see things their way. A lot of them sound more like they're part of a cult than a religion. Buddhism seems to go well with me and I agree with philosophy.