2007-04-15 09:59:00 · 13 answers · asked by waitingkatie 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I prayed, and nothing happened. So I guess that proved that god isn't in my life.
2007-04-15 10:02:34 · answer #1 · answered by Duncarin 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Up until 1974, I would have consider myself an agnostic - Agnostics claim either that it is not possible to have absolute or certain knowledge of God or gods; or, alternatively, that while certainty may be possible, they personally have no knowledge. Agnosticism in both cases involves some form of skepticism.
Then in 1974, about a year after I got out of the military (4 years during the Viet Nam Era and not a scratch) I was working working on a construction crew - we were building a golf course. Anyway, one Saturday, I had just hosed off a tractor and was ready to put it in a garage and call it a day. Just as I started it, the transmission malfunctioned and threw itself into reverse. It just so happened I was hosing it off right next to a river with a 25 foot 45 degree embankment leading down into the river. The tractor was only about a foot from the edge and I went over the edge. It picked up a lot of speed going down the incline, until the bottom. I tried to push myself off of the thing, and I cleared the PTO and spinning blade attached to it. I hit the river flat on my back - and when I looked up - Here comes the tractor. It landed on my head and shoulder area and took me straight to the bottom of the river. It was on top of my head which I was able to lever out, but my arm was really stuck under it. I was running out of air, so I 'sucked it up' and yanked as hard as I could. And I got free. I swam 25 feet back to the surface, climbed up the 25 foot river bank and got to the river edge. I looked at my arm and it was filleted. A huge chunk of muscle was missing out of my forearm, the other side of my forearm had been sliced from my wrist to my elbow and it was just hanging open. My face was pretty well split open, too. My face was like a jigsaw puzzle. Blood was gushing everywhere, some teeth were missing. One guy I worked with grabbed me by my shirt and threw me into his truck. He took me to the nearest fire station, where they put me in an ambulance and then to the emergency room. It took about 200 stitches in my arm and my face bones were stitched up with stainless steel wire. I was disabled for about a year.
It was then I was no longer an agnostic. That was the time when I had become completely convinced that in no way, shape, or form is there some sort of god or gods who created us or the universe. I believe the whole concept of god is absolutely absurd. Total nonsense.
2007-04-15 17:19:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its not a case of proving. Can you prove there is not god in your life? God is felt in heart. When you notice god , it is not one incident but many. He is teaching us. Listen.
2007-04-15 17:16:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have gone to sunday services my whole life. I never really got deep into my beliefs until I was 13, aka 3 years ago. I decided that I wanted to be baptised. That was what made me prove that there was a god. My faith deepend in that moment. Now there is without a doubt in my heart and soul that there is a Lord above, looking out for all of us, here to guide me through life and death.
2007-04-15 17:04:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I fell from a tree & crushed my spine, I wa in head-on collision, I roll my tuck over 3 or 4 times without a set belt over 15 ft. enbankment going 65 miles per hour, & many more things.
2007-04-15 17:05:30 · answer #5 · answered by birdsflies 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I was ready to do something that was entirely wrong and I finally got quiet in mind and spirit and God showed me a sign by sight and by sound. I knew that it was God.
2007-04-15 17:07:32 · answer #6 · answered by Mary G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the great coincidence. I sincerely asked for vision and understanding, he gave it to me. I was concerned about the sins of men and hatred. I knew it was him but i still do not know which religion to follow as i was an atheist for most of my life. I believe i am meant to learn them all. As we can all speak to God and we can all write our own testament of these conversations. You just need to be truly ready to listen.
2007-04-15 17:05:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I fell from an airplane and landed on a concrete parking lot. I was killed instantly, and there was very little left of my body. The doctors pronounced me dead and everyone said there was no chance of recovery...and yet when I prayed to God, I recovered.
2007-04-15 17:03:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I had a "white light" experience, but it doesn't mean that I saw God.
2007-04-15 17:04:56 · answer #9 · answered by bullwinkle 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When I was doing something Scripture says not to do...& His Presence flooded the place. I stopped dead in my tracks & wept uncontrollably.
2007-04-15 17:02:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋