What made you believe in God?

Question

What happened in your life to make you seek God? or to believe in God?

I know some people are going to say "I don't believe in God", but go for it if you want and get your 2 points.

Answer 1

I believe in God because of all that is wonderful, beautiful days,the birth of a child, the smell of flowers blooming in the spring, rain on stormy days, the power of thunder and lightning, morning dew on the grass, even that darned ice that covers our windshield when you are late for work, little old ladies who can't remember your name so the call you sweetheart, and little old men who still like to strut like they are six feet tall when they are stooped to 5'6, my 94 year old friend who says I am his favorite girl besides his 93 year old wife, the unconditional love of a child with Downs, the recovery of breast cancer survivors, the will to walk after being amputated to mid thigh. I could go on and on But I just can't tell it all!

Answer 2

I grew-up with the Lord as part of my family so that helped. No one was "holy rolly", just your average Christians. But the day that I really found God was when I was 12. I was with my family listening to a speaker talk about a religious sec that was making the news during that time, 20 years ago. The story made me afraid of what would happen if I didn't truly bring God into my life. That was the day, as a prodestant Christian, I was saved.

I guess my thoughts on it is this, if there is a God aren't you glad you believe in him. If there isn't a God, does it really hurt anything if you believed in him anyway. But if there is a God and you made the decision to not believe in him and seek him out during the rough times in your life, what a bummer!!

I can't imagine the infinite universe without believing that something bigger than it is responsible.

Answer 3

I do believe in God

Answer 4

I really wish I could answer this question with an affirmative. I'd love to tell you a heart warming story about how I was touched by God and saw the light and my life changed forever.

I can't.

In fact, I've seen more in my life that proves to me God's light was never there to begin with, and most of it was firsthand experience that would shake you to the bone.

My extended family is mostly made up of quite devout Christians. The kind that have a dozen or so pictures of (the oddly Caucasian) Jesus hanging on the wall over the poorly tuned piano they use to sing hymns on Sunday after church. I have seen my entire family wither to nothing, die horrible, unfair deaths, be cheated out of everything they own (by other God-fearing Christians, mind you) and not once did God's light shine down.

Even when my father's first wife left him with two young children to run off with the Pastor at the church where my father was a Sunday school teacher, God was nowhere to be found.

When my mother's childhood minister wouldn't marry her to my father because (since he was divorced) my mother was an adulturess, God was nowhere to be found.

When my father was taken from my mother and I suddenly one night for absolutely no reason, God was nowhere to be found.

Some would say that God works in mysterious ways, and that's why all these things happened. I can't believe that. I tried to seek God. God wasn't there. Just life: tragically beautiful.

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Answer 5

I believe in God and I always have, but I had no faith in him until recently. I was at my bottom physically, spirtually and mentally and basically asked my higher power to do for me what i couldn't.
Basically turn my life and will over to God. No I am not religious but I ain't got control over my life and never will. Sometimes I think that God has a very good sense of humour because things aint happening my way or something else comes into my life, but it all comes in for a reason.

Answer 6

Nothing has really made me believe in god, but I've strayed because of reason. God could make the world perfect in a heartbeat, but doesn't. He allows murder and crimes to happen, and all of our failings would be byproducts of his vision for us. With no god, we choose our own path through the world, rather than being forced onto it.

I believe that evolution does work. Everything fits. Our visions of right and wrong are for the survival of humankind...

Answer 7

I looked at the world around me and realized that no mere scientific process like Evolution could possibly explain away all the beauty in the world. I realized that without a God we could have no ultimate authority in our lives showing us what is good and what is evil. I realized that all the human decency out there is no simple product of reason and certainly not of natural selection--it is a fine demonstration of what it means to be holy. I realized that without God our lives, ultimately, mean little more than an honest but futile attempt at living well and pursuing pleasure. In short, I realized that there can be no meaningful life because without a God there can be no grand, eternal meaning to anything.

Answer 8

Nothing I was born into my faith and raised with the belief that God exists so I never had one event in my life that made me believe in God.

God is ominipresent.

Answer 9

Well, my parents both believed in God, so of course, that has an effect on you. When I got about 18 then I began to stray away. I started to live my life as if he wasn't real. I've been through a lot, and I know in my heart that God is the only reason I am here today. I've battled a lot of things..drugs, violent relationship, etc. God delivered me from my old lifestyle and made me who I am today.

Answer 10

My belief in a creator was gradually built during the early formative years of my life which I could not shake off later despite the choices and all the pseudo-intelligent arguments indicating otherwise. With internal logical reasoning, it solidified into a belief in one and only one God, with no partners, the chrisher of all creature and maintaining the order in the universe to whom we all have to return and be accountable for our deeds.