Think about your answer very hard before you answer.
Would a death of your child, loved one, or something like losing everything you cherished stop you from believing?
So what would it be that would turn you into an atheist?
2007-09-11 07:24:42 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
half my family is already dead so Nothing is going to change it
2007-09-11 07:26:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 6⤋
well, I'm with fireball. I've been through a lot of deaths and losses and such by the age of 22, so what else could happen that would cause me to lose my faith?
The sort of faith I have is not that God has a path or destiny for us, just that he has given us LIFE and we have all the choice of what we wish to do with it! We have been given a gift, not an imposition. A lot of people like to lean on God as if he has all the answers. No. God is life, God is love, God is those huge things that transcend our personal selves to make us into something greater, than just a seed. We're better than when we first realised the world, if we can know God.
God doesn't' ever go away and God never leaves you in times of trial. God is not a selfish entity! He wouldn't allow a part of you to be lost simply for the joy of the game. There is so much beyond his work, it is aboslutely miraculous. Not always easy, but always in truth and Love.
So no I'd never lose faith. I've seen too much to believe he wasn't carrying us through it all.
2007-09-11 14:42:39 · answer #2 · answered by Jeska J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am sooo past being turned, that I don't think I could/can.
I tend to look at everything with an eye towards mysticism. The grand mystery of life. I see it everywhere.
For me to change would require that the entire world to cease to exist, and for me to know it happened. But then, I'd ask, "hey, why did everything just go dark?" And seek a mystic answer.
I don't have the answers to everything. In fact, I have the answers to very little... but I keep asking questions. And its the asking that has lead me to where I am.
That might read as a "non-answer" but its as close as I can get.
Regards
2007-09-11 14:34:29 · answer #3 · answered by Green is my Favorite Color 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've asked this question before, and the answer I generally get is "nothing would ever make me stop believing".
That answer does 2 things:
1. It tells you the mind-set of the answerer.
2. It proves some people a liar, because people stop believing or convert to other religions all the time.
2007-09-11 14:29:46 · answer #4 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do not have that choice, you see, The Bible explicitly warns that Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is unforgivable and that Hell is a real place where people who do not believe will burn for awhile and then all evil will be annihilated, to include people who went to Hell.
If I allow myself to listen to atheists or skeptics, I may slip into blasphemous thoughts, so I must not give place to the Devil at all and stay as far away from trying to reason - as possible.
When I read things that seem to go against my faith, I immediately stop and pray, "Jesus, i love you, Jesus i love you, Jesus i love you..." and walk away from it as the Bible commands, so that I will not go to Hell.
I dropped out of colege also because they were teaching evolution.
2007-09-11 14:38:52 · answer #5 · answered by John Galt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can think of only two things that, with any certainty, could result in my losing all faith. One is brain surgery or injury. Who knows what that might do? The other is total amnesia, but either event would have to be followed by total immersion in a society of no one except atheists -- NICE atheists! I know You exist, but You tend to be the quiet ones.
2007-09-11 14:59:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing that can compare to the greatness of God. He loves us unconditionally, sent His Son to die for our sins. And He has proven Himself more than enough times (to me anyway). So I could never give Him up or quit believing. Anything else would be inferior.
2007-09-11 15:00:18 · answer #7 · answered by kaz716 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. I am a child of God and belong to Him, there is nothing that could happen that would cause me to turn against the One who gave me life.
Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
2007-09-11 14:29:51 · answer #8 · answered by BrotherMichael 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i dont need to think hard to say there is not one thing that would ever make me not believe in God......IF i ever lost everything i cherish i hope i would say, like Job said..the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.
2007-09-11 14:31:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Having experienced all the things you listed, they have only served to increase my faith and my realization that I need God to get through those kinds of things.
Sorry, but I have seen too many miracles, too many lives changed, too many answered prayers, for anything to make me stop believing. I have spend too much time talking and walking with God to doubt him or his existence.
2007-09-11 14:30:31 · answer #10 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nothing can make me stop believing. Consider Job: he lost his livestock, family, health and yet continued to praise God. I pray that my life never comes to that, but if it DOES I won't stop believing.
2007-09-11 14:35:33 · answer #11 · answered by Kori spelled backwards is Irok 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋