I see several people referring to themselves as former atheists. I was wondering just what changed your mind into believing? These are both 2 opposite extremes, and I imagine the reasoning must be very powerful.
2007-10-26 04:32:13 · 10 answers · asked by mrr86 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
LOL i like the clouds parting one. It refers right to my question I asked yesterday: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuFXXMxqRJYfaZdzA1kOMJHsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071025120512AAW1doO
2007-10-26 04:38:56 · update #1
It was (is been) a process
1)Knowledge of science and the astonishment towards the beauty of nature was the first thing to shake my atheism.
I then became what i latter found out is described as a "pan-theist", feeling profound reverence towards nature and its beauty
2) The pan-theist view just didn't do it for me, and going trough a life crisis a few years back i began going to a catholic church. It was very good for me at the time and everybody there was very nice.
3)Later a life story from a close close friend simply convinced me that evangelical Christian was the way to go. I couldn't deny or explain what happened to me back then. Only that sience then my life changed deeply.
Well to make a long story short, i searched for God and I found Him (or He found me). There is no deep secret or strong reason (well acctualy there is but it is very, very personal and i don't think i can properly explain)
Thats it
Paz de Cristo
2007-10-26 04:42:53 · answer #1 · answered by Emiliano M. 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
My husband is a former atheist. For the majority of his life (he is 45 years old)he was atheist, Iam a Catholic Christian, we never discussed religion or God thru out our marriage(23years), we respected each others beliefs and left it at that. After coming out of a coma(my husband) in which he almost died, God came to him and showed him things and told him things that which finally showed him that there is a God. He has been a Christian for the last 7 years.
2007-10-26 04:52:37 · answer #2 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Seeing the pituitary gland during an autopsy and learning about what it does in the human body.
2007-10-26 05:09:06 · answer #3 · answered by سيف الله بطل جهاد 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I became a believer after mormon missionaries asked me to pray about it. I figured it wouldn't hurt so I did it. And I felt something that there was no way that God could not exist. Since then I was a believer.
2007-10-26 04:41:54 · answer #4 · answered by dancingqueen 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Its amazing how easily influenced by beauty some people are. Personally I have never heard of such a thing, the ones here are trolls.
2007-10-26 04:41:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Atheist telling christians how to confuse them go a long way in promoting the lies the christians promote... If an atheist says this is the way to make me consider it.. the devil will surely find a way to make the christians promote it... that is the devil's way and the reasons for the number of relgions out there... for he don't care what you beleive as long as you serve him... that is why it is said there is only one god.. even the bible says it.. "Satan shall be called god of the earth" he will be the only one being called god...
2007-10-26 04:42:27 · answer #6 · answered by Gyspy 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I'm an atheist, but I had a roommate who changed his beliefs from atheism to theism. He was on a nature hike and said to himself "If God exists, he'll part those clouds right now." The clouds parted, and he converted.
2007-10-26 04:36:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 3⤋
Jesus appeared to me and let me stick things in his wounds. So I was all like, OK, I believe now. And he goes, Yeah, well blessed are those who don't have to stick things in my holes in order to believe. And I was like, fine then, have an attitude.
2007-10-26 04:46:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
No former atheists here, just confused people....
2007-10-26 04:41:59 · answer #9 · answered by Lex Fok B.M.F. 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Who would want to go from "rational thinking" to believing that fairy tales are truth???
that's just bizarre.
2007-10-26 04:43:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋