just a thought...
2007-01-05 07:47:25 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
captain atheism: how can you be so certain that there is indeed no God? in that argument alone, nothing is certain.
2007-01-05 07:56:38 · update #1
I wasn't looking for God. I was running from Him and blamed Him for all the evil I beheld in my own life and the world. I told God to get out of my life, and He did. I sank very low, but when I was at my lowest God spoke into my heart one simple word "Maybe Jesus really did die for your sins"
With that one word my whole life was transformed. A wonderful sense of light and love and peace and understanding and forgiveness flooded my soul, driving out the darkness and hopelessness and meaninglessness and anger and hatred. I realized for the first time in my life that the Gospel story was true, and that Jesus had died for me. I had never heard of anyone having such an experience, but I read about it in the Bible about a year later, in John's Gospel, the third Chapter, where Jesus explained something to a Jewish religious leader named Nicodemus which He referred to as being "born again".
I realized immediately that was what happened to me - my whole nature was totally changed in an instant. Since then I have learned to accept the authority of the Bible and I have never been put to shame by believing.
2007-01-05 07:59:25 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's not the case for me. I wish I wasn't an atheist. I hate being a minority, and depised by the majority. I also wish I had a magic man watching over me and giving me guidance, etc.
But that doesn't change the fact that there is no god, and I am therefore, an atheist.
Edit- I am certain that the god of Abraham is false. If there is a god beyond that, I don't know. But in case there is one, it makes no difference to me, anyway. THAT god is not threatening me with damnation if I don't believe in him. And he also doesn't answer prayers, he doesn't value one person over another, and there is no benefit to "worshipping" this impotent and/or uncaring god. So... who cares? I live my life well. If that god exists, I'm sure he would applaud the fact that I've truly sought the truth about him, rather than accept the falsehoods that ARE popular religion.
2007-01-05 07:54:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly the truth that you know will somehow be different from what I know depending on which faith each one of us grew up with. Not necessarily the basis of what you want to believe in but rather in the experiences you have encountered. Only when both of us will go out of the box and look at things from the outside, intently, we may be able to find reality from the truth. Even that may also give us an space between us because truth and reality is always in one's own concept.
For an ordinary eye, the color of a leaf can be green only but to an artist, it is a blend of many hues. The color of the sky to happy man is bright and but to a lonely man it looks always grey.
2007-01-05 08:06:08 · answer #3 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. If what I believe in is something I wanted to believe in...then I would believe in a God that would allow me to do anything I so pleased. That's not the God (or the truth) that I believe in.
I believe in a God who is righteous & holy...and who cannot tolerate sin. I couldn't invent that God up on my own. I love sin too much.
2007-01-05 07:51:44 · answer #4 · answered by srprimeaux 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Always. After all I am a thinking man (I think...) But it seems to me better to have a system of truth to anchor in than to wander confused from one version to another with out grounding. But I always leave room in my beliefs to grow, change, evolve. After all the greatest Wisdom is to know that there is much we don't know.
Blessings
2007-01-05 07:58:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not anymore, my truth can be kind of depressing!! But it is still truth. The truth is that humans have no significance whatsoever.
I'm sure the vast majority of people though are as you describe.
2007-01-05 07:49:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i have very little doubt in my beliefs ... but of course there is always a fraction
but i do have to say , that my beliefs came at a time when i was very skeptical and verging towards atheism
i was not looking for a belief in God ... but i had things i could not ignore
is it possible i want to believe in it ? ... yes
do i think this is the reason i do ?..... no
2007-01-05 07:54:25 · answer #7 · answered by Peace 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've thought about that numerous times, especially when I was younger. Then I had some amazing experiences and had prayers answered in no small or indisputable way. Now, I guess there's no denying, at least for me.
2007-01-05 07:50:27 · answer #8 · answered by straightup 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you were afraid of the dark, you would believe that wherever there is darkness you KNOW to be a beast or monster lurking in the shadows.
Same thing here.
2007-01-05 07:52:27 · answer #9 · answered by Cold Fart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think that will only happen when you don't study what you believe in. believing on mere hearsay is not the best way to know what is REAL truth.
2007-01-05 07:50:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋