The most important question to atheists and religious people alike! Serious answers please.?

Question

After thinking about God for months and months and then finally experiencing God.
Does that mean that God exists or not? and the second part of my question.
Does the question whether God exist or not matter if we can experience God whether God exists or not.

Amy... I am NOT religious my darling.

No elmjunburke not imagine. Experience.

Answer 1

Nobody has experienced God.

At most you experienced a feeling that you attributed to God. You could just as easily have the experience of Tinkerbell if you believe strongly enough. If you look through the list of various myths, superstitions, and urban legends, you'll see many examples of people having feelings and attributing them to various things that don't really exist.

Answer 2

How can you experience something, the definiton of which you do not even know ?

This does not make any sense.

If you see a banana, and then you eat it, you know you ate a banana. But how can you experience the taste of a thing that you don't know?? You experience something, but you don't know what it is.

It really makes me laugh when people start arguing whether there is God or there is no god ! Who are they talking about ? An idea that is in their heads, idea that differs from one person to another... If you want to discuss something, it would be great you would first know and define what or who you are talking about.

GOD is a three letter word, everyone understand the word differently. For me GOD equals LIFE (and death) simply existence, or even the non existence as well. God is everything, and everywhere. It's a bird on the sky, it's your thoughts, your hair, it's a car on a road, it's motion, physics, religion, people, universe, thoughts, mind etc...

Never mind, we'll never reach anywhere with discussing some word, that we name a 'thing' that we don't even know...

Sorry, for repeating this many times, but it still makes me laugh!!!

Answer 3

LOL energybeing.... guess that depends on the "experiencing God" that you are talking about, don't you think?

We Christians are told to "test the spirits" to see if something is of God or not. (suggest googling or in yahoo search, use key words: test the spirits...just looked, and many there )

Can what you have experienced be explained in any other way than the supernatural? Remember, satan is into the supernatural too, lol...but, for a non-believer to experience satan, then it only goes to common sense that there is a God as well, :)

May you find Truth. :)

***I keep coming back to the 2nd part of your question: "Does the question whether God exists or not matter... if we can experience God... whether God exists or not".

Curious.... lol....recognize an analytical mind at work here...mine often goes that route too until I find the answers I seek. Oddly enough, playing devils advocate to my own questioning mind hasn't swayed my faith one bit. That's what makes other people so much of a puzzle to me! Holy Spirit makes a BIG difference in this... ah well, I pray you find out yourselves :)

Answer 4

You can see that the people who do not believe in God will tell you that your experience just proves you are fooling yourself. You will also find that those of us who believe in God will tell you that you can most certainly experience God and that he is very real and wants to be part of your life.

Asking people questions like this will not get you anywhere at all. You have to make the decision for yourself. You have to decide if you have enough evidence in your life to believe that God is real and follow that decision up with a continued seeking.

I was an agnostic and an atheist and have been a believer for 31 years now and I can only tell you that there is zero doubt in my mind that God exists and that he loves you and wants you to follow him. However, what you believe is your responsibility. God will not hit you over the head with a sign that says "Look, I am here." He will always give you signs that can be interpreted one way if you believe and the other way if you do not.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

After experiencing it... no the question as to whether or not it exists no longer matters. I would have to say that you should rely on your experiences, but don't rely Solely on your experiences. Use common sense and reason before jumping to conclusions about the experience.

Answer 7

There are many unexplained phenomena experienced all the time. From aliens (video taped and recorded on radar to experienced by people with real physical effects. Ghost phenomena recorded on video and measured to people with real physical effects, people miraculously healed with no explanation by doctors and personal experience with God no one can discount) You are your own instrument. No one can tell you that you are a liar. Only you know what you experienced and how likely it is something else mistaken or an actual event. There are many arrogant people out there who will act like they know exactly what you went through and call you a fool but they are projecting them selves on you. It is foolish to assume an event is something with out first hand experience and call the person who experienced it a fool for claiming what they claim when they are the ones who experienced it as I have seen many do. Its easy to spot a know it all. In order to know God you would have to have a relationship with him. Its not just an experience it is a relationship or repeted contact. God will turn many away as some will claim didn't I do this and that for you God! and God will say, "depart from me for I do not know you." (paraphrased out of the bible.) Its about a relationship. In the Bible it informs us to seek and keep on seeking and to knock and keep on knocking (the Hebrew words for seek and you will find and knock an it will be opened is a continued form [persistant]) Read luke 11 and you will understand that God wants us to seek him persistantly and have a relationship with Him. People may say all religions people claim to experience this or that but a relationship with God is unique. Jesus also walked the earth and was God. (in the beginning was the word and the word was God.. and became flesh.) paraphrased from the beginning of the book of John. There is much evidence of Jesus on earth and he fulfilled what was prophesied about him in the old testament. There is much reason to believe and test and taste and see that God is Good. I like to think of it as a scientific process. Faith starts out as a small seed (based on a willingness to test a hypothesis or idea) So you seek God and test and taste and see the Lord is Good and you find that he is. Now the faith seed is starting to grow and gain roots. Eventually it becomes a tree because your relationship with God has given you plenty of experiences and no one can shake you because you know. They may claim you are a fool because they think they know better than you, but they can't possibly know. I some times have thoughts of doubt come back but then I think back on the thousands of experiences from my relationship I have had with God and my tree stands firm. I am not shaken.

Answer 8

What do you mean by " experience god " ? You're asking if it matters if something exists, so long as you can experience it. . Somehow, I can't understand how anyone can experience something that isn't .
Do you mean, It doesn't matter if there is a god, so long as you can imagine one ?

Answer 9

Leaving the question of existance aside, ?god is a human experience, and is valid as such whether or not ?god exists.

Answer 10

I don't think it matters whether or not you believe in Deity, because Deity believes in you. You've experienced Deity. Therefore, Deity EXISTS for you. For those who've not come into contact with a higher power, Deity does not exist. It's all about our perception of the world(s).

Answer 11

I don't know that you have to feel a higher power to experience it. You can feel something powerful that's bigger than your universe, that you experience through a god of some kind, be it Jesus, Allah, Confucious, whatever, or you can experience through something else entirely, like humanity or love. I think it comes down to what you name it. Reigious people name it god. Athiests name it something else. I don't think the experience changes, I think the explination does.