Why do you believe in God?

Answer 1

My journey to Christ hasn’t been the most conventional!

In a sense, I broke the mould in giving my life to Jesus as I come from a (very) non-Christian background, but I have experienced many significant things in my life that have influenced me in my decision to become a Christian.
One of these things, I believe, is that I attended Leesland Infant, a C of E school, in my early schooling years which encouraged prayer and religious teaching. I believe this set the foundations of a good relationship and understanding with God when I was to discover Him.
However, in August 1996, I moved to Lee-on-the-Solent, meaning a change of school and therefore far fewer teachings about Christianity and, I realise now, meant that I was not having as much involvement and learning about God.
Also, around this time, my Grandma suffered a brain haemorrhage. I really wondered why this had happened to such a nice person. I have come to realise with the help of God that it has happened for a reason, however this reason is not yet known to me, I have the faith in God that the situation I experienced as a 7 year old, and in which massive strain was put upon my family, has happened in a way that I can learn from it and input it to everyday life. I also now know that, one day, I will find out as to why it happened.
The real turning point in my life on a personal and spiritual level and the point of my initial relationship with God was when, at the age of 10, I was diagnosed with leukaemia.
The strain was obviously very difficult and challenging for everyone around me, but I managed to find salvation, although not a Christian or a firm believer, in God. While people around me with similar conditions were constantly trying to find someone to blame, I attempted, with all my heart, to blame no one. There was the ‘Why me?’ and ‘The doctors must have it wrong’ scenarios from me about the diagnosis, but this was short lived, I had to bear up and live with the fact, I had leukaemia. While people were blaming God, I thought, with the (very) little knowledge I had of Him, was that He could only possibly help me.
However, this did prove to be difficult and was not easy for me to think like this all the time, as a cancer sufferer, I was experiencing troubling and demanding times in my life and still had the question in my mind ‘Why is it me who is suffering?’
Despite this, I attempted to pray everyday, with the hope that God was listening and going to help me through the times that were mentally and physically challenging. I prayed for myself and the most important people around me, family and hospital staff, who had almost become like relatives in their approach to me and the amount of time I was spending in hospital.
I believe that through these prayers I received the bits of help that I required from God to get through each day I had to battle through the torment that I had everyday for over 3 years.
The presence of God, and His activity within my life, was felt most by me one afternoon when, on one of my random walks around St Mary’s Hospital, I Was walking past the Chapel. For a reason still unknown to me, I uttered a prayer under my breath that two sufferers, one of them a friend, of cystic fibrosis could just experience one day of their lives as normal as possible, as they are normally hampered down with pills, hospital visits and physiotherapy. The next day I found out that both had been temporarily discharged and allowed home. I realised that even when times seem to be at their lowest, God can still do extraordinary works and produce miracles.
I successfully completed my three year treatment, but towards the end, I started to drift from God. As it was, I didn’t feel as if I was a Christian and I wasn’t going to church, but I started to ignore Gods presence and stopped praying to Him as I had been previously. This was also due to the fact I had no Christian encouragement or environment access to be guided in the right direction. Also, on a personal level, I had felt I had lost three years of my life, and I wanted to start living as an individual, without any help from, well really, anyone. I had had enough of being told what I was and was not able to do, I had felt I had gained ‘freedom’ from my cancer, when in fact, I was not free at all.
For about a year and a half I had no Christian influence or perspective on life, and discussions with other non-Christians led to me starting to doubt the existence of God at all, and I had been convinced to accept that all the things that had happened during my treatment was all coincidence.
However, in April 2005, three Christian friends invited me to a church-run youth group that ran on a Friday evening. I was really up for going, primarily for having a good time with my friends. However, once I had been going for a few weeks, and discussions every week about God, Jesus and Christianity in general, a small spark in my heart was starting to burn for Jesus in a way that I had not experienced before. I started having questions about God which I had not thought about before, I was starting to see Him move in all walks of life, in everything that I did or that I was seeing and I was overwhelmed that I could have His love also.
Due to this, in late September/ early October 2005, I asked my very good friend Sam if I could go to a proper church service with him. I was interested now, and I had some personal, unanswered questions that I thought God could answer. No one knew about these questions that I had, they were quite delicate, in a way, relating to the suffering I had encountered in my life. The main question, ‘Why?’

And the title of the course that was being undertaken at church?
‘What on earth am I here for?’

And the subject of the sermon that day?
Purpose.

I realised from that day on that I was here for a reason and that everything that happens does so for a reason.
I knew then that my suffering from my Grandmothers trauma to my cancer, it was for a reason. And additionally, the reason would be revealed to me, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next month, maybe not even in my lifetime, but I would find out. God would reveal to me soon enough, when He thinks suitable, and His timing is always perfect!
I also started going to Re:GenR8 (Brockhurst Baptist Church’s Youth Congregation) and the ‘Youth Alpha’ course really helped me learn about God more.
I gave my life to Jesus on 25th February 2006 and took the decision to be baptised on Easter Sunday of that year. I chose to give my life to Jesus because I knew He was involved in everything and that He never lets go, whether times are good or bad. Also, after finding God, my questions were answered when no one else could answer them and I realised that I wasn’t suffering because I was a bad person, as Jesus took all the shame of the world away through His crucifixion and resurrection.
Now I want to serve God in all I do, and I thank Him for saving me and for the many talents He has blessed me with, for example in leadership and working with children. I am also planning to study a degree in Children’s Nursing as a result of a lot of prayer and obviously the experiences I have endured and been through. I feel God wants me to be in that field to share my life experiences with others and to help. I went on a weekend trip with some other cancer sufferers. It affected me a lot; it got me quite down and made me feel very upset. Yet a large part of me wanted to go back and help, not stay away from it because of my negative emotions, but get stuck in and help other people who have or have had cancer. Over a few weeks, this grew and I knew God was directing me towards that. I also knew this because for a long time, for about 4 years, I was determined to be a Physiotherapist, but this desire went. God had helped me let go of a humanly desire to help fulfil His and a spiritual one.
Also, I want to attempt to share the brilliant feeling I have when I encounter God and to let people know what it is like to be a servant of Christ and to lead them to Him, no matter who they are or what they have done, as Jesus loves us all the same!

Answer 2

I believe in God for many reasons. I wont name them all because it would take hours. I believe in God because for 1. The evidence supporting him is in fact out there. There are believed to be chariot wheels found at the bottom of the Red Sea (the story of the parting waters), the Walls of Jericho have also been found i believe, among other discoveries. They also believe they have found what remains of Noah's ark. If you read the bible you will find that many things are historically accurate. There are many prophesies(and not cold psychic prophesies but very specific ones) in the bible that have come true. Even in the last centuries.
and 2. I have experienced many things that just made me feel that God exists. I am a VERY skeptical person about alot of things but I can say i truly believe in God

Answer 3

you are asking the right question, the fact is I believe in God because first off there had to be a cretor of this world and universe. to believ that it happened by chance is like saying chaos brings order. Second i believe in absolute truth. there has to be some truth that is true all the time. the only truth that i have found is the Bible to be true. all other truths have found fault somewhere. Third, I believ that only God can change people and helping them live a different lifestyle than the one they had before. the Bible say there is none righteous, so given without God the world would be total evil and haotic, yet because God exists there are some people who believe that there are certain wrongs we can not do. 4th I have come to undertsand that we are created for his glory and we are to worship and serve him. He gives us meaning and freedom only found in him

Answer 4

I first believed in God through my granddad who was a verger in the C of E. However, I rejected the teachings of Christianity and never went to church or even got christened, neither of my parents were into it. Then I met a Christian lady who invited me to her baptism, and I went to support her. During the service I simply felt the awesome presence of God through Jesus. It was a very personal experience, nobody else with me that day felt the same. I realised some time later that I had been baptised in the Holy Spirit when I raised my hand to be blessed by Jesus. I have since then studied other faiths, studied the Bible and it's history, had many prayers answered, been used to heal. God became real to me that day, and even healed my depression in that moment I raised my hand.

Answer 5

I used to believe in God,not any more.God proved me that
he is heartless,uncaring fictional character.I worshipped him
all my life and he could not give me one and only one thing
i ever asked for.Although We respected all the religions and thanked God for every thing our family achieved in their life.
If God is there he can not be that cruel to make people suffer
with diseases and disasters not created by man kind. If God
was there he should not separate young couple with deaths
and he should not kill young childrens,he should not snatch
a mother of a young child with death.Finally i think he is unfair.

Answer 6

I like the idea of a God, it's comforting.

But I do not believe in the Bible's definition of God. If there is a God, it is something that has not occurred to us yet or something that we cannot comprehend. Like the underlying energy that supports and sustains the universe, or something.

Answer 7

Because I have read His instructions to the entire human race (The Holy Qur-an) taught to human beings in 23 years through an Illiterate man called Prophet Mohammed in 6th century AD and still remains without any human corrections or interference as the most wonder ful Book of the world

Answer 8

Umm nicely i think at ineffective night God and Goddess, they dont extremely care if I make blunders....as long as I dont reason injury to nature, which i might by no potential do through fact i'm vegetarian and that i admire the Earth =)

Answer 9

Because I believe in the truth!
I know to some people it seems far fetched, but did you kow that the book of Genesis aligns with how Scientists believe the world, and all existance came about?

Unless you think that Daved Blaine is responsible... How do you think it all happened? Magic? And don't say evolution... Where did the first forms of life come from? Where did the planets come from? It must have come from somewhere.

Answer 10

I believe in God because I know hes in my heart and in my life. And he made a way for man to have eternal life with him. Jesus is our Lord and Saviour. We have the Holy Spirit to guide us into all truths. He supplied the Holy Bible for us to learn from. Its the only book that has all truths in it. The Lord made sure that it was available for us and it always will be. He is the beginning and the end for all things.

Answer 11

Well, it would be remiss of me not to mention that my parents took me to church as a youngster....

But I continue to believe in God because of the many thousands of times that I have felt his Spirit in my heart. Logic may not always support the idea that God exists, but a feeling in my heart (peace, rightness, clarity) tells me that he is real... and that I am a beloved spirit daughter of a Heavenly Father, with my own divine mission to fulfill in this life.