Verses debating if there is a God, lets discuss your personal experiences causing you to believe there is a God. In other words, what life events have contributed to your confident that God lives in your life?
2007-03-06 07:49:41 · 9 answers · asked by MoPleasure4U 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Laying on my back looking up at the stars, or sitting on my surfboard waiting for waves. I just feel a presence I can't explain any other way when I do those things. I know that wouldn't prove there is a god or gods to anyone, but it's why I believe.
2007-03-06 07:54:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Many answers to prayer.
One particularly note worthy answer revolves around Jesus saying that even thoughts can be a sin. Well, I was dwelling on a particular thought when the realization struck me that if I kept thinking about this thing I was not going to get into heaven. So I tried thinking of something else. I'm sure we all know the harder you try not thinking about something the more you think about it! That's the dilemma I was in. I struggled & struggled to change my thoughts, and I prayed & prayed until I found myself doing something else and was startled to hear "NO". Stunned, I stopped what I was doing and leafed back through my thoughts and realized there was the thought to think about that abhorent thing. Quickly I turned from it back to my other work. A moment or so later I again heard "NO" and dared not turn my thoughts back to uncover anything. I definitely heard God rebuke Satan. That thought never troubled me again.
I've come to realize most Christians are taken in sin because we "have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin." Heb 12:4 (Turned from it with our whole hearts.)
By the way, the voice of God is powerfully loud & authoritative. I am fully convinced He will have no problem waking the dead.
2007-03-06 08:13:51 · answer #2 · answered by V 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I went on a Christian retreat when I was a sophomore in college; and I was able to feel the presence of God in the people I encountered and in myself. Ever since then, I have had no doubt that God exists.
There have been other times that I have encountered God in prayer. Sometimes, I pray to God and I get the sense that He is answering me and telling me what to do.
After I broke up with my college boyfriend, I was very devastated and I went to church on Sunday and prayed "Please God, all I ask is that you let me meet someone else who I will love even half as much as I loved my ex." Then, I sensed a thought that came into my head. It said, "Love is more than just being swept off your feet by someone who is handsome and fun to hang out with and a good kisser. Love is about having a deep connection with someone who you truly care about." Now there is NO WAY I ever could have arrived with that conclusion on my own at that particular moment in my life. I truly believe that God or some supernatural power spoke to me.
Today, I am married to the love of my life; and I truly feel the deep connection and caring and committment that God spoke of to me that Sunday in church many years ago.
2007-03-06 08:04:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was born a sick child, and there were times that I cursed God for allowing me to be in such pain, God allowed me to suffer and experience that pain for 16 years, and when I prayed to him to let me die that's when I believe he curred me, when I grew up and got married and started a family our first son was diagnosed with leukaemia they told us he would never see 5 years of age, my wife and I prayed to god to take him home so he would not have to suffer, God had other plans for him, and today he is 30 years old and cancer free, God has given me every thing I have asked for, and I know that I am not perfect, and if any one should go to hell it's me for cursing God, I know in my heart there is a heavenly father, and I believe in him with all my heart and soul, and I do believe I will have a place in heaven when my time dose come.
2007-03-06 08:17:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually I have direct experience of God...I feel his presence. It first started when I was agnostic and looking to see if there was a God or not in my early 20s. One day I felt God's presence during heavy introspection and seaching in a meditation. The feeling of presence was within me and all around me.
Since then, I've been able to commune and re-connect over the years whenever I want.
I can feel God now...as I type. It fills me with love and peace.
When you have a direct relationship through experience...how could you doubt God's existance?
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-03-06 08:01:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I use to be an atheist. God found me in a nightclub.
2007-03-06 07:54:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
conversion and my parents teachings
2007-03-06 08:00:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
gurp.
2007-03-06 07:56:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
none.
2007-03-06 07:54:03 · answer #9 · answered by 7abibi♥ 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋