If you WERE an Atheist, what made you change?

Question

I am curious as to what has changed the mind of an atheist to start believing in Jesus Christ...

Please, if you're still an atheist, don't answer...

Okay, if you said the Holy Spirit, were you reading something or was somwone talking to you, did you watch a TV show or visit a church? A little more spcific please... if it's not too personal...

Answer 1

I always felt this tug at my heart when we passed by churches... never knew why. I grew up in an atheist home and was never brought to church. But this feeling got stronger and stronger... at 15 I dated a preacher's son, and went to Church with him and I cried when I stepped in... the feeling of the holy Ghost was so overwhelming and perfect I cried tears of joy. I beleived then on without reading a Bible and being MADE to go to church. He came to me without my asking for Him. How great is that?

Answer 2

My religion (Catholic) made me an atheist do to a lack of any supernatural evidence. From age 15 to 21 I was atheist. At 21 I became suicidal. At the very last minute a person stopped me from putting a knife in my heart.

That and the first time I read The Bible the power of the words on the page leaped into my eyes and they locked onto the words. My muscles constricted like I was being electrocuted.

I grabbed The Bible so hard I was white knuckled. I was yelling at the top of my lungs "What kind of book is this!!! What kind of power is in these words!!!!!" I could not take my eyes off of Genesis Chapter One.

It had to ripped out of my hands.

Answer 3

It took being dead at the scene of an accident.., I use to do tarot cards and silly stuff like that growing up as a child. When I was 21 years old I was found on road dead and in our Fathers throne room. That is what it took to get it in me that God is real and so is Jesus Christ. If you want to know what it's like to be dead look at the 1st page of robert m on yahoo 360

Answer 4

The Holy Ghost

Answer 5

I was. I was brought up that way.When I was a baby, my mom was @ a church, and she was asked to leave, said she was to dark, to be there w/ them. So she turned her back on God,Christ and all of Christendom. So I grew up, actually saying "Did God make man or did man make God? Denied HIM, HIS existence totally, completely, & unequivocally.
28 years later,minding my own business, listening 2 the radio, after dropping the kids @ school; I heard the host & others talking about......
God has a name
That when the Bible was translated in2 English
his name was taken out, b-cuz "we" commoners weren't good enough to know His Sacred & Holy name.
Now, I already told u how I was raised, But, nonetheless, I thought 2 myself, "If God put something in there, it Must b something He wants us to know." And let me tell U; I was MAD!! WHO R THESE MEN TO DECIDE OTHERWISE FROM GOD, TO DECIDE FOR ME,THAT WHICH I HAVE EVERY RIGHT 2 KNOW. (I had picked up a Bible once or twice in my life, tried to read it like a novel. It Doesn't Work That Way; obviously; I never could make any sense out of it). Then w/in a few days 1 of my kids brought home a tiny 'lil pocket size Bible, but, it was only the Christian-Greek Scriptures; some call it the New Testament. I started reading & read I did. @ least an hour a day, sometimes more.
I discovered what a disciple is, an apostle, what it means to b a witness for Christ, etc....
One thing I noticed the MOST!, was that reoccuringly thoughout the Scriptures the words "his name" kept being said. "A ppl for His name"; "that He takes ppl from every nation, every tribe and every tongue a ppl for His name,"
Even the Lord's Prayer "Our Father in heaven Let Your Name Be Santified." There it is again & again...."His name."
Now, on the radio that day, they said that the 2 names that r most widely accepted as His name is Jehovah & Yahweh.
@ the time, & @ the time that I was reading everyday, I had not thought about 'what is His name.'
Then, again, there I was 1 day...thinking about all the new things I was learning.....................................
And there it was.......................
The truth was revealed to me........................
JEHOVAH= the name of God.
Witness--to tell what U know
Jehovah's Witnesses' r telling about the true God....................
I was about to move back home to Calif., and so I said 2 myself, I need to go, to a Kingdom Hall to have some1 teach me more, about what I'm learning now. When I get settled in Calif.
Before I left...in a few days time, I was around the block @ a friend's house, when my kids came over, saying there was some1 @ the house.
I went home, and LOW AND BEHOLD!!!!!!
It was a Witness of Jehovah.
I have never looked back.EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

During my lifetime as a Christian, I have seen and felt His active force in my life more then once. The Best I can give is that when my son went into the military, I did not support his decision, much to the dismay of my Entire! family. My son & I spoke (it was emotionally charged-but, we were NOT fighting or arguing) before he went 2 basic. Ultimately, I said, if ur in & Armageddon begins, u will b ordered to go against Christ. And u know full well the outcome of those that go against Him. What u do then is also ur decision. The conversation was finished, he went in.
I stood firm on Jehovah's Word. I did not waiver.
DO NOT Kill your Brother.
He arrived @ Ft. Benning; b-4 he actually started basic;
Sept. 11th came and our world changed forever.
The day came when all the men of my family, were full of JOY, my son was receiving 'Hazard Pay'...for those that don't know...he was going to war. I can't even describe the horror that my life had become, w/out keeping u here for a full 24 hours. Even then the men of my fam., kept on me; about supporting my son. I will not, Can not, It will not be borne.
I had to speak to my husband about my son's funeral; if that day came,I had to be prepared. I LOVE my Only Son. (When he was on leave, er'1 kept asking him go here, go there, he said "I'm on vacation", 1 person told me to make him get up & do something, that I'm his mom, he has to do what I say.
I responded w/ "No, he doesn't, he's a man, I'm not over him any more, I'm a woman, I'm under him, granted I'll always be his mom, he can come to be about anything, but, I can't tell him what to do." That young man, puffed up like the cock-of-the-rock. I gave him, in front of the Entire family, his manhood.) Before his time was completed, he got in a fight, & was Honorably discharged. The man whom he got in the fight w/ stayed in the military, went to Iraq, and was KIA.
My son was sent home to me, and not the other Mother's son; her son was not, spared. Jehovah had returned my son to me.
There's no worldly explaination for it. I know a 'lil about the military, I was a brat, my husband served, 1 brother and my son.

That's just 1 of a handful. I told u, I've seen & felt His active force in my life.

God is His title,
its who He is.
NOT His name.

Answer 6

Brain washing. I was originally an Atheist when I was a little kid. I was subjected to a Christian school after years of having it pounded into my mind I finally broke.



Thank Odin I left Christianity. I’m an Asatruar now.

Answer 7

I'm wondering, what makes you think that an atheist would go straight to Christianity? Christianity isn't the only one out there claiming that they have the "one and only thruth".

Answer 8

I had a experience with the Holy Ghost.

Answer 9

Sorry, it happened the other way around for me. I was a christian, and when I learned more about christianity, I deconverted to an atheist.

Answer 10

The flying spaghetti monster touched me with his noodlely appendage.