"Experience" seems to be the reason theists are unwilling to consider the possibility of God's non-existence.
I've heard people claim they've experienced God or they've felt God's presense, but I'm not sure what they mean.
Are they/you speaking about unexplanable feelings? events? visions?
2007-07-13 03:22:17 · 11 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Any details, Sybil?
2007-07-13 03:26:21 · update #1
It doesn't have to be a vision or event. Sometimes I have peace in my heart and I know that it comes from knowing God. Some people look for big signs to prove God's presence, but he works in quiet, small, personal ways to make himself known.
2007-07-13 03:28:59 · answer #1 · answered by nitesong 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I am wondering how to begin.
I had the choice of killing myself, or giving God a try. I had been talking to a man about Jesus-- more like he was informing me for a while and I thought that I would do what I was being told would make a difference.
So one night in my bedroom while all alone I said the Sinner's Prayer. What happened afterwards was beyond what I thought could happen. It was a combination of feeling, vision, and events therein which included being in a place that I can only describe as heaven. I was not the only one there, though no one addressed me. It was as if I was given the chance to see heaven and feel the immense power of God's love. I also got the powerful urge to speak in tongues. I resisted because I could hear my sister in law just outside my bedroom door and didn't want her to think that I was in the midst of going nuts. I didn't know at the time that God wouldn't force you into doing something you didn't want to do, and I was successful in not speaking in tongues, though I've regretted it ever since.
I'm ever going to tell you something more unbelievable: Since I was about 8 years old I had been visited by demons that would come to me just before I wanted to sleep. The night when I became saved, those who had been using me for whatever ( I really don't know ) were chased away, they tried to come back later but God's Spirit chased them away again.
Now the first thing people who don't believe in God to do is think that I am paranoid or delusional or both. But you asked for a testimony and I gave you one. It's true, and I have told the story before.
What God has done for me ever since cannot all be told, there is too much and I think that you would find much of it boring. But God proved Himself to me, especially that night. He decides who He gives proof to. He doesn't want everybody, and won't do for everybody what He did for me. I don't know why He looks at me with such favor, I really don't think much of myself and have no outstanding qualities that I can name. But He chose me from the world and I am really glad about that. He and I are close.
I was 24 years old when I was saved, and now I am 46.
2007-07-13 10:44:46 · answer #2 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No events, no voices, no visions, nothing that cannot be explained away by a nonbeliever, just a sense of being tethered to an irresistible force, a cord that I could break at any time if I wished, but I would rather die than live without it. It IS my life, I am an empty shell without it.
2007-07-13 11:04:36 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
our brushes with God happen all the time! it's just when we seek to explain it away or call it something else, that we miss His presence in our daily lives!.
a dear friend asked me to attend a memorial service for her relative. i drove there and couldn't find parking anywhere - drove around for 20 minutes and got so frustrated i decided to just go back home! i got a couple of miles away and it popped into my mind that i was fighting a spiritual battle. my friend needed me and i was allowing satan to win my heart away from her. i pulled over and prayed - telling God that even if i could only get there and see everyone leave, i would attend that memorial service no matter what. i got back to the church and there was a parking spot right by the front door...
atheists would call it a coincidence. but Christians know what i experienced - a God-incidence...
2007-07-13 10:32:52 · answer #4 · answered by chieko 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well i'm 17 and have gone to many retreats and 2 mission trips with my youth group and probably the only expierience i've had is when we are in Worship...I know that God is there. I can deffinately feel his presence in the room. It's just a feeling that empowers you and you just know.
2007-07-13 10:27:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
the unexplanable feeling is when the doctors tell you that you will not walk any more, and you have prayed and ask god to help you walk again and you do, and the doctors don't know what happen explan that.
2007-07-13 10:37:45 · answer #6 · answered by andrewalker7777@sbcglobal.net 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes. I was agnostic for many years and finally had to admit to myself that there was a 'God' though not the 'God' that organized religion peddles. Not a human form, not a face, not a sex, etc. A force. It was a slow realization, nothing dramatic.
2007-07-13 10:25:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is really hard to explain. Especially with limited space on YA. But if you are really interested, you should sit down and have someone share their Testimony.
I know that no one can take mine ("experience") away from me.
But I lived 26 years of believing God's non-existence and 18 years later I can't be convinced that He doesn't exist.
2007-07-13 10:37:50 · answer #8 · answered by Amoeba Man 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is all about relationship. In any natural relationship you have feelings don't you? I'm here to tell you that a relationship with God is quite real and you can see Him, have conversations with Him, be touched by Him and even touch Him.....
2007-07-13 10:39:36 · answer #9 · answered by Cre8ed2worship 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When I saw HIM my life was changed and transformed 180 d.
2007-07-13 10:30:43 · answer #10 · answered by Benyamin 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋