If you surely believe in God(s), what convinced you? A life event? Profound epiphany? Revelation? etc.?

Question

People aren't born theists. Theism is something you have to acquire and come to believe in at some point. What was that point and what led to you becoming theistic?

Answer 1

It's hard to pinpoint but I think that there is always this background of despair at the pointlessness of life without a Creator. My life, my death, the life and death of loved ones are all meaningless and pointless unless we were created for a purpose.

Related to that is, I think, a desire to have a fellowship with my Creator even though I am not sure that He even exists. One of the most powerful and emotional images in the Bible is God walking with Adam and Eve in the Garden in the cool of the day. I found that I wanted that.

Answer 2

Six years old, already been through several homes, and a name change, laid under a tree with the sun shining down on me, a bubbling brook, puffy white clouds, birds twittering in the tree top, a kaleidoscope of color when the sun would hit the water just right. So lovely. God was there and I met him through nature. He helped me through many more years of difficulties and it was nice to not have to face it alone. He is my friend and I am his child. Mmm

Answer 3

I had been an atheist for several years when I had an experience that led me to pursue theism again. It was an encounter with a Divine presence, and I'll leave it at that.

Answer 4

Experiencing unconditional love and profound epiphanies.

Answer 5

A philosophic argument first suggested by Aquinas and now refined and known as the Argument from Contingency.

HTH

Charles

Answer 6

It wasn't any one thing, but many different experiences that lead me to believe there is something there and that it does interact with life. I can't explain the experiences as I can't completely define them for myself in a way that I could categorize it for others. I know, that sounds nuts, but you asked. *wink*