Are you an X-Athiest that became a born-again believer in God? [Details inside...]?

Question

Are you an X-Athiest that became a born-again believer in God?

What changed your mind?

Was it a logical [i.e. analytical] choice, or a spiritual experience that lead you to God?

If it was a spiritual experience, tell me what you experienced please.

Thanks in Advance for Your Answers!
Blessings, Love & Peace, Jewel

Answer 1

I don't really know what to believe right now.
There are so many logical answers. I just try to live life, do my best.
If there is a god, one day, sure he will show me or tell me or something. I can't see/hear/touch/taste/smell one right now...,

I am not saying god is not or cannot, i just dont know if he isnt or isnt. It seems impossible to know right now. Guess youd say I am undecided on that one.

If he lets me know later on, I will have to acknowledge I guess.

Thanks, hope that helps

Answer 2

Proof of God? I am not sure I can give you that. But I can point out that science has failed to give an origin of life. I am excluding abiogenisis as it still doesn't prove that life can come from nothing, only that complex amino acids can be created in theory and only in a vaccuum. The spark of life has to come from something else. Following evolution and Darwin's survival of the fittest we can see that only attributes that are beneficial survive. A white rabbit in the Arctic survives while a brown one stands out and gets eaten by predators. So most Arctic Rabbits are white. But the more complex traits, like why does your blood clot, takes some air out of the sails. If the clotting feature, platelets, were to develop on their on then the blood would solidify in our bodies and we would be dead. So our bodies have antibodies and compounds in it that stop the platelets from forming clots until they are exposed to the open air. The skin arouns a would heals, not by random growth of cells, but by designed growth patterns that keep us from having to have excess skin removed every couple of days. Our bodies are minor things in the complexity of the universe but it is something that I know a little about and it is complex enough to make my head hurt. All this complexity had to have some design involved. As for faith, I like to think that there is a plan. I have no idea what the plan is, but I believe there is one. If there is no plan and no greater scheme of things, then why are we here? What does it matter what we do? Atheist believe that everything happened accidentally and we have evolved from something less then we are. That is stronger faith than most Christians or other religious people have. We at least have an idea where we started and why we are here. Every birth is a miracle. Can you take two seperate strands of DNA and make them one, then cause them to grow into a breathing living being? Maybe the first part, DNA manipulation isn't really that difficult with science today. But the life issue always comes back to bite you. Noone can replicate life. It is a force we do not understand. It is also something we tend to take for granted. God loves you, no matter what you believe. He made you exactly the way you are and understands doubt. I spent 33 years doubting Him. Peace to you. I pray that you find the answer you are looking for.

Answer 3

I was an atheist, steeped in the school systems ideology of evolutionary teachings that by their accounts, the universe was formed with the big bang some 6 billion years ago when I was in shool to know 10 billion years. I grew up in the form of mental training that evolutionists were right and Christians were deluded idiots, when science had proven without doubt that everything evolved just they way they said it, I lived that type of lifestyle until I had an encounter with the Living God, who revealed Himself to me, I felt that I was bathed in liquid fire, and saw God afar off knew that what hell was, and I also knew who God was that my journey to him began. Today I am born again Christian, filled with the Spirit of God, taking courses to become a minister for the glory of God in Christ, by His power and by His transforming power to change people from sinners to saints from saints to empowered disciples to win others to Him. Have a blessed day.

Answer 4

let see started out as a Catholic went on to a pagan then slipped into athiest. then meet my best friend who led me to Christ , it was totally a unexpected spiritual experience. she shared with me her testimony at a dinner, when she went to rest room asked God to be real to me. after studing the word have found made a very logical choice.

Answer 5

For me it was logical. I read CS Lewis' comment that the Messiah was not a fine man and great teacher. He either was who He said He was the Son of YHVH or He was a raving lunatic. I realized that the "Liberal" school I had been brought up in was inconsistent. It occurred to me that the same argument applied to Scripture, and so I started to study Scripture. I had problems, of course, but as I studied they worked themselves out, and I began to see the Truth through Scripture, and accept it.

Answer 6

I don't think such a thing has ever occurred - maybe someone can be non-religious and then become a believer but someone who has thought it through and is an atheist can never go back on logic and rationality to embrace superstition.

You can think the Earth is flat and learn its round - how can you ever go back to thinking its flat?

Answer 7

also, ex-atheists, please tell us if you consider yourself mentally stable, and if you have a record of contact with psychiatry.

Answer 8

me

Answer 9

choose Darwin my dear he has all the answers.