At what age did you first choose to believe in God?

Answer 1

I can't remember. I've always believed in Them.

Answer 2

I was 2

Answer 3

I started being told about God at the age of 7 but I didin't start believing till I was 42. I explored various religions from 17 to 42 and I decided that Jesus Christ made more sense than anything the other religions had to offer. I have been a Christian for 6 years now and it just gets better all the time.

Answer 4

At 16 I came to realize that I am an atheist. I recall the momment. I had struggled with belief in God for many years. It always felt like pretending. I imagine that people might come to spiritual realizations at about that age. It's when we begin to really define who we are in many ways. While I didn't choose be believe in God, I chose my beliefs about god. At 28 I began studying Taoism and Buddism. That began my true spiritual quest, which I am still on at 35.

Answer 5

Thank God, I could think for myself at an early age. I believed in God. When I was around ten years of age, I , my older brother, and two neighbor boys went to my grandmother's house in town. We didn't have any money, and we wanted to either buy a jackknife or see "Mary Poppins'. Each cost 50 cents. So we prayed. A little later one two older brothers showed up (I had eight of brothers) and gave us each a dime. Then the other older one came and gave us each a quarter. Then the first one gave us another fifteen cents because he didn't want to be outdone. Then we thanked God and went to see the movie.

Answer 6

I was told to believe from earliest childhood, but I always had questions. (Like if God was a white man, and we were all created in his image, where did women and people of all colors and different kinds of faces and bodies come from?) I do believe in a Divine, but my belief takes a very different shape than what my Assemblies of God/Southern Baptist family intended.

Answer 7

I didn't choose. I just took it for granted that God existed because why else would all those people be sitting there in church at 10AM on Sunday singing songs and wearing uncomfortable clothes and tight shoes and putting money in a plate?

Answer 8

At a young age I was beginning to wonder about man's relationship to this universe and the supernatural, Life has to have a purpose, and there has to be a God. Afterall, people have alwayed worshipped Gods of some sort down the ages. And after having studied the bible with Jehovah's Witnesses, I am convinced that, not only is there a God, he is the creator of all (Revelation 11:4). The creator had existed for eons before the earth and heaven were brought to birth (Psalm chapter 8). And most wonderfully, this all mighty sovereign is a God of feelings and actions. We know from the bible times and times again he sent the prophets to ask the apostsate Israelites to mend their ways. Also, here is Solomon with his great wisdom, composed the proverbs, the ecclesiastes. We know from the bible God is the source of all wisdom and good things.

("Jehovah himself gives wisdom.” (Proverbs 2:6)

Again, Jehovah has emotions as well, despite his lofty status as the ruler of all his creations. Jehovah is humble: as in his reminders in Psalm 16:18

Pride is before a crash, and a haughty spirit before stumbling.

What's more Jehovah is affected by human suffering, today as it is back then in the times Jews enslaved in harsh slavery in Egypt:

Unquestionably I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their outcry as a result of those who drive them to work; because I well know the pains they suffer.

(Exodus 3:7)

The good news is that God'll eventually abolish this wicked system of things and bring mankind emancipation from Death and the painful effect of Sin and wickedness from other human beings! It is possible because the almighty maker himself have promised it:

“I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea is no more. I saw also the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: ‘Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.’”—Revelation 21:1-4.


Yes, Jehovah cannot lie. (Titus 1:2). His holy name itself means: He who causes to become. He will accompolish all his purpose to have Paradise restored, wicked people removed and this wretched, slavish system of the world, and our sin, imperfection and death removed, and our loved ones ressurcted.

Yes, even the earth will return to its former beauty just like God originally planned in Eden.

To Jehovah I give the glory, the eternal creator and abode of wisdom.

Answer 9

When I was 3 days old, I opened up a book on quantum physics, realized it was telling me something profound, and then started to believe in God.

Answer 10

Same as most Freethinkers i suppose.

When you understand that being a american means being indoctrinated into the christian religion and when you actually READ the bible looking for truth, actual truth, not just inspiration, you find it greatly lacking.

My fall from grace occurred when i was 19.