Can you pinpoint a time or experience in your life that determined for you how you would feel about the existence of God; also, for those who believe in a higher power...what form your faith would take?
2007-01-02 04:45:39 · 12 answers · asked by frenzy-CIB- Jim's with Jesus 4 in Beauty & Style ➔ Hair
Ok, wrong section...lol.
Thanks for answering anyway.
2007-01-02 04:50:45 · update #1
I love your answer, dlin.
2007-01-02 04:52:24 · update #2
Ha I love that I found this in the beauty section! That is so weird that you asked that because I was thinking about that last night. When I was 15, I had to change high schools. I remembered being so scared so I turned to the bible and I remember praying that my first day would be alright. Well it was the best first day you could ask for! When I was 17, my parents were going to allow me to stay home while they went on a church retreat. At the last second my dad changed his mind and our house burned to the ground that night. We all lived because we were at Montreat. I believe in God because He has always guided me where I need to go and picked me up when I needed lifting up. I love Him and my life would be meaningless without him!
2007-01-02 05:27:10 · answer #1 · answered by rachdezigns 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, well I have trouble falling asleep so I grubble over things. More so back in my teens. Anyway, I realized that all actions are reactions, hence there is no such thing as "free will".
However, actions, even if they are reactions, are not always predictable, due to the infinite scale of the universum, both in time and in space. Something infinite cannot have a start, as a start would give it an finite dimension.
Are you still with me? So, in order to believe in a Creator, one would have to assume that the universe is finite, because it is impossible for something to be created that encompasses its creator.
That is, the action of lighting a match cannot create a match and a fire on the end of it.
Of course this all bases on the assumption that the universium is infinite, and it must be because space has no boundaries where it ceases to exist- we do not live in a proverbial fishbowl.
I understand that infinity is a hard thing to grasp, and people are jumping around it avoiding it and instead making up fairy tales to comfort themselves.
2007-01-02 05:07:15 · answer #2 · answered by dane 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We see miracles happen all the time and we are all living proof of a higher power. I'm taking Anatomy this year and each day that I learn something knew I am reminded that we have an awesome and all-powerful god who put us together in His image. As I learn the inner workings of the ear- see the joints form in a fetus- look at how perfectly our bodies work and how nothing was forgotten or left out I see that we couldn't have evolved and been formed by genetic mutation. I will never believe that it was all just a chance and that we came from a single cell. To those who say we came from monkeys- I say couldn't God have developed a way that things work and saw that it was good- and duplicated it in all of his creatures?
2007-01-02 04:54:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I sat in church one time (and my last time in a church) to watch a guy come through the door after spending 4 years in jail for raping his 2 daughters and molesting his granddaughter, and watched him cry and cry about how God forgave him in a dream. God also apparently came to him in a vision while in jail (which is bullshit) and told him to go to the church on this particular day, told him to ask the congregation to follow him to his home (same place where he raped his 2 kids, and granddaughter as well) and I sat there in amazement as literally a little under 1/2 the church got up and followed him out the door. Yes out of the 200 approximately people there, about 95 people went out the door claiming that they loved this rapist also and would follow him into the pits of hell if that's what he wanted. WHATEVER!!!!!!
Thats when I knew 100% that God, the Bible and ALL these so-called preachings are BULLSHIT. No God would ask any man to do what the rapist did. And this same man, when 1st convicted and sent to jail, was an elder in my church and taught me Sunday school at the time. I was 14 years of age when this happened. I am now 35 years old and there's never been one occasion or any saying from man, woman or child to make me go back to church again.
2007-01-02 04:55:42 · answer #4 · answered by GirlinNB 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I was raised a Catholic, and yes there were many times that I had experiences that just could not be explained away by science. I knew that my brother was going to try to kill himself (no one expected him to), and told my parents at age 15 that someone needs to go to his house right now and take him to the hospital. They finally caved in and he had taken quite a bit of cold med w/Tylenol in it. Almost dies, messed his heart up and some other things, but he is alive with a family of 3 and one on the way. Yes I believe in God, especially when you have a angel telling you thing like this all of the time.
2007-01-02 04:51:40 · answer #5 · answered by cateyes 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe in God & Jesus as our savior, there are too many unexplained blessings in this world for there not 2 be a higher power. I don't however believe that you should have to succumb to a religion for guidance. In my life I pray & speak into the heavens above and I feel like I get answers and blessings all the time.
2007-01-02 04:58:46 · answer #6 · answered by lil momma 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no longer common to declare for confident - my memory fads - even yet it ought to be: #a million - I remember seeing each and all of the gorgeous photos of the beautiful little animals walking up the gang plank to the ark. How beautiful. Years later i found out that the story of The Flood is a tale of the worst obtainable genocide led to through a stark raving mad guy. #2 - I remember getting to understand the story of Passover and how it symbolizes god's present of freedom. Cool, huh. Then i found out that it had no longer something to do with that. The bible helps slavery and the ten commandments say no longer something undesirable approximately it. Moses and his human beings did no longer care approximately ending slavery. they simply did no longer want to be slaves themselves. #3 - Then I met some Christians and that they yacked on approximately "the autumn of guy" and "unique Sin" and that i almost threw up. What a terrible scare tale this is. it somewhat is of course meant to maintain the peasant in line. there is in all probability greater yet those are the highlights of "My Fall from Grace". satisfied New 12 months
2016-11-25 22:40:47 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think people just know there is a God. Ive always known. I guess its the way a persons raised. But really look around you, can you doubt that God is real.
2007-01-02 04:55:51 · answer #8 · answered by Mona H 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i knew as a teenager, that i had to search , as the religion i was in, Christian, had some unresolved issues for me,,,, many years later, after researching various religions, i came to find one that agreed with what my spirit felt,,,, Unitarian Universalist,, while i do believe in God and Jesus, i just never felt that everyone had to,,,, also, since i do believe in the possibility of reincarnation,,,, and focusing not so much on where you are going but what you are doing now,,,,,, there were not many organized religions that i would fit into,,,,
2007-01-02 04:49:52 · answer #9 · answered by dlin333 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
No, not at top of mind. Evolve over time.
2007-01-02 04:49:06 · answer #10 · answered by rostov 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋