I was an atheist. I asked God for a sign. He gave me 3. How can I deny him now?

Answer 1

tell it to the Palestinians and Iraqis. I'm going to ask God to show me only one sign and I'll be a believer.

Stop the slaughter!




Nope there's nobody home I'm afraid, looks like we are gonna have to sort it out ourselves as usual.

Answer 2

Most of the time humans have a habit of finding patterns in normally benign occurences in everyday life. As such if someone is actively searching for a "sign from God" then they are much more likely to find such. For example, if I was running low on money and asked God for a sign to help me, and then later on in the day a friend rang me up and asked if I wanted a job I would immediately associate that act with my request to God. Does that mean that God is absoutely responsible? Of course not. If I wear a teapot on my head because a friend claimed it stops meteorites from falling on my head and a meteorite doesn't fall on my head it's most likely not due to the fact that I have a teapot in my head. Just because there is a correlation doesn't mean that the cause is definitive.

It also doesn't matter as to the number of times it occurs. Say with my teapot example I proceed to go out a further two days and again no meteorites fall onto my head. That doesn't confirm my findings at all since again there is no clear correlation between the act of wearing a teapot on my head and the lack of meteors falling on me. Then again I could go out everyday for the rest of my life with this teapot on my head and never get struck a meteor.

Really if you're looking for signs and you see them then to you they seem real. But consider this; if you hadn't asked for those signs, would they still have come? Theoretical physics suggests that time is a constant, and as such events that have passed are permanents. So imagine now that you had seen those signs, but without the pretext of expecting them for God? How would you have interpretted them? Consider also how another person might have interpretted them. Would a child have seen the same thing? What about a Jewish person? Or someone who was Islamic? The list is endless.

In the end all observations and conclusions are based within your own perceptions. If you wish to continue on believing that you saw three definitive signs from God then you are within your rights to do so, just as I am to wear a teapot on my head. What needs to be asked is whether or not that conclusion is wholly justified beyond your own examinations.

Answer 3

Me, I'd question the source. "Give me a sign" and then a cat walks through the room...is God a cat? Or a car honks it's horn...Is God a Horn? You were searching for something, and you found it. Whether or not you created the example in your own mind I can't say, but you always believed in truth. The fact that you asked is proof enough that you thought there was something out there listening, and you hoped so hard that whatever happened you took as signs. It happened because you wanted desperately for it to, and I won't condem it either way, whether it really was God, or yourself wishing it was.

Peace be upon you.

Answer 4

in the beginning, the Koran has many scientifically faulty issues in it too. (See source.) 2nd, despite if the flaws listed are actual, that would not without delay make each and every thing else actual. i could say here: "Sony makes the psseries of activity structures. On a sparkling day the sky seems blue, and that i'm god." 2 of the statements are actual, however the final is fake. yet in accordance on your argument, because of the fact I reported 2 actual issues, the 0.33 could be too. finally, why is the language so ambiguous? rather if Mohammed had a hotline to an omniscient being, he would have learnt the thank you to needless to say clarify those issues to his followers which might have carry approximately Muslim worldwide places being the main more desirable interior the worldwide.

Answer 5

Interesting; though, since you were speaking to a deity, I do not think that you actually fit into the definition of being an atheist. I am curious; what were these "signs" that you were given?

Answer 6

Congrats. If I had gotten a sign when I asked for it several years ago, maybe I'd believe too. I guess he likes your soul more than mine and my fellow atheists. Have fun strumming your harp on a fluffy pink cloud while we're partying in hell, naked.

Answer 7

Hmmm an atheist would not ask god for a sign. Good luck on your career path.

Answer 8

Then you did good. Would like to hear more about everything that took place.

Funny...how an atheist finds Truth, and he's raked over the coals by other atheists. All that demonstrates to me is their "tolerance".

As for the act of an atheist asking God anything means he is no longer an atheist, I wouldn't let that stop you or any other atheist from genuinely asking God if He really exists.

Answer 9

Was it one of those swell sandwich board signs that you wear over your shoulders?!

Or even better, was it a McDonald's sign?

I wish God would give me a McDonald's sign!

Answer 10

The same way you claim to have done before.

Thing is.... athiests don't ask "god" for signs... so chances are you stopped being athiest BEFORE the sign-asking, and thus the validity of the "signs" is voided.