Question for Athiests turned Christian - What caused the transformation?

Question

I am interested in hearing your story of what made you go from athiest to Christian.

Background information: My best friend growing up was an strong athiest until her brother died.

Answer 1

I grew up in a Christian home and became an atheist by age 11. I absolutely denied the possibility of God, I hated the mere thought of it. On occasion I would mock Him and demand proof~I was very specific in what I would accept, only this would serve to prove His existence. For 31 years I kept it up, and finally I decided that I would ask no more. It was during a moment of extreme despair, and I just gave it up and said that God couldn't possibly exist and I would never ask again. It was at that very moment that I received the sign for which I had been asking~the specific sign I had demanded. Needless to say, I'm no longer an atheist. I believe

Answer 2

It wasn't anybody particular journey or series of activities for me. I had the common questions as a baby, which includes "the place did god come from", "how do all of us be attentive to Xianity is the suited faith and the others are incorrect", etc. i could no longer locate solutions via asking human beings and that i grew to become sufficiently previous to study and comprehend the bible, so i began examining it. I study issues that made me think of long and stressful approximately faith, then i began college. I took astronomy and started questioning long and stressful suitable to the flaws i develop into discovering. particularly I basically found out approximately technology, and found out that there is unquestionably info backing up clinical claims. i began searching for info to diminish back up biblical claims. All i found have been variations of bible thoughts such because of the fact the flood, yet those variations have been older than the bible itself. i found that i could no longer have self belief interior the Christian god any greater. So do I deny the existence of a writer or greater capacity? NO. yet i do no longer think in a sky daddy the two. i'm open to theory in greater capacity as long as there is info. appropriate now I evaluate Nature to be the better capacity. Is there something at the back of Nature? i don't be attentive to, yet signs and indications factor to no.

Answer 3

Well, no one is born a Christian. Many of us were "practical" atheists. We may have had a sense that there was a higher being or God, but lived like He didn't exist. The truth is, God decides who are His people, or sheep. God calls out those who are of the elect or His church. It is not by our work or trying to find God. No man, in his natural state, pursues God. God draws, through the Holy Spirit, those who are His to Himself. If you are one of His, He will pursue you until finally you recognize that He does exist, that you are a sinner and that there is nothing you can do to change that. You will then seek a remedy for this, that being, a savior, who can only be Jesus Christ. All people are destined for eternal punishment due to our sinful state, God, out of mercy, grace and love, chooses out some for salvation, not because of anything we have done or will do, nor because of who we are or what position we hold, it is solely a work of God and of grace, which makes me all the more thankful.

Answer 4

Well the proof that DNA is a language from God.

Some say Randomly drawing alphabet letters in sequence from a hat, sometimes you will get a simple word like 'CAT'. So given long time periods, why couldn't even more complex information arise by chance?

However, what would the word 'CAT' mean to a German or Chinese speaker? The point is that an order of letters is meaningless unless there is a language convention and a translation system in place which makes it meaningful!

In a cell, there is such a system (other molecules) that makes the order on the DNA meaningful. DNA without the language/translation system is meaningless, and these systems without the DNA wouldn't work either.

The other complication is that the translation machinery which reads the order of the 'letters' in the DNA is itself specified by the DNA! This is another one of those 'machines' that needs to be fully-formed or life won't work.

Answer 5

It seems that the only people who are atheists who become Christians are people who are ignorant of religion and grew up having never thought much about it. They probably don't even consider themselves atheists before they become Christians.

Answer 6

No actual atheist has ever turned christian no matter what born again christians tell you.
Just because you aren't a christian before you are "born again" doesn't mean you were an atheist.

Edit: If your friend was indeed an atheist then she changed her mind, after her brother died, because of *RandomQuestion*s answer... Fear.

Answer 7

This gets asked two or three times a day. It never gets an answer. It is really rare to find an ex-atheist. Most of us thought it out and don't go back. I have only met one in my whole life and he came from an atheist family and never put much thought into it ahead of time.

Answer 8

this must be less than 1% of 1% .but on the other hand Christians turning atheists like hotcakes off the griddle....

Answer 9

That's a rare thing to happen. I've only heard a few stories from people over the past few years.

Answer 10

This was asked twice this evening already and I don't believe there were any sincere answers. There are very few atheist-to-christian conversion. Most atheists are just too intelligent.