Was it a physical experience or a more mental experience. Or do you just believe in what you have been taught. and what made you realize that god is not a myth.
2007-10-06 17:31:31 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i was raised a catholic so for as long as i can remember ,god has been a fact of life.
as a teen i read the works of ayn rand (i reccomend this to all of my intelligent friends)and that shook my belief system however i really never lost my faith in god per se but had to re-evaluate the way that i related to god.so over the years i studied the bible ,torah ,and the koran and was stricken not by the difference but by the similarities of the texts.at this point i consider myself a recovering catholic ,after careful consideration ,i believe that the story of pontious pilate asking the jews whom he should put to death was contrived by the romans .constantine ,realizing that rome was loseing military and political control of the empire atempted (succesfully)to retain power over the masses by religion.
thus the fraud that indicted the jews for the death of jesus and made rome inculpable of his murder ,around 500 a.d. constantine ordered 50 bibles to be delivered within a set amount of time were christianity to become the official religion of the empire .this put an enormous amont of pressure on the nostics to produce an acceptable text .of course rome as the sponser exerted a great deal of influence as to what to leave in and what to leave out thus the fairytale of a roman goveror that let the jews tell him who to execute taking the blame(i wash my hands)away from rome and putting it upon the jews.an act that has done far more damage to israel than even the nazis could incur.
so even throughout my period of disillusionment with the church i never lost my personal affinity for god.and as the years went by and i had the oppertunity to walk in the footsteps of the characters of the old testament i only felt closer and closer to our lord.
and as i came to be in imminent danger of losing my own life i came even closer to god and accepted that it would be his will and not mine that determined my fate,then i found peace.
sorry so long
sincerely joe c
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2007-10-06 19:42:58 · answer #1 · answered by joe c 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your mind was set up to believe in some deity and to never consider anything else, huh? If god isn't real, the point of life is to live and enjoy. The earth wasn't created with some guy in his boxers making a ball. You can rot away, but i'm going to live a life and enjoy it. Life is full of love. I don't have to not love life because I don't believe in a high diety. Actually, I was a Christian for 22 years and ever since I've converted, I've been the happiest i have ever been in my life. It's called logic and reasoning...you should try it some time. I'm sure you Christians no nothing about that.
2016-04-07 08:32:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be honest, it was the other way around.
I was raised to believe, but I later viewed it as a myth when I saw the contradiction in my own belief system (catholicism).
Maybe other people have had similar experiences.
2007-10-06 17:36:02 · answer #3 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believed when I first heard because something inside me said that it was true. I was a little kid then. When I grew up I began to have doubts because of how my life had been but then I begged God to show me Himself and to let me see Him without the influence of others. He did and so He's been real ever since.
2007-10-06 17:43:44 · answer #4 · answered by Que bella 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I started believing god was real when I thought of how the world was made, how animals were made, and how people were made. I think about it every day, how without god, there would be no me, no yahoo, no nothing. People can believe in whatever god they want, but you have to believe there is a god in the sky.
2007-10-06 17:37:04 · answer #5 · answered by lilbaseballstaraz9@sbcglobal.net 1 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I was born to Christian parents. With a Christian family. In a Christian town. In a Christian state. That's how I learned about God. But I was around 33 when I came to know God.
2007-10-06 17:41:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I grew up in a christian home and am strong in what I believe. God says to go out and be disiples, so that's what I'm doing now.
2007-10-06 17:50:54 · answer #7 · answered by SoundofSettling 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When I won a free Egg Mcmuffin playing McDonald's Monopoly. How could I receive such a delicious gift without the power of God?
2007-10-06 17:36:22 · answer #8 · answered by ML 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
As stupid as it sounds, to make a logn story short, I was expecting nothing, but still went to church out of habit, prayed dryly, and the holy spirit filled me
Then, when i was suicidal, God saved me, and that can't be emotional based, because trust me, my emotions were saying "jump," but here i am now, well and alive
2007-10-06 17:35:45 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
can't see him, that is the problem, but i go to church on Sundays(most) and have a good time with those i can see, usually from a distance or next to me. like this morning, she had the same name as me.
2007-10-06 17:38:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋