If a grown adult walked up to you and said "I have an invisible friend, I know this because someone told me

Question

and because I beleive it to be so"

Would you consider calling a lunatic asylum to have them committed?

What if 10 people came up to you and made the same statement? What about a hundred ?

Even if there were hundreds of millions of people who beleived the same thing does that make it any more sane or rational?

Answer 1

I cannot address the religious aspect of your question, but the bona-fide official fact is you cannot legally have a person committed to a mental hospital unless he/she has threatened you or physically harmed you in some way. Otherwise, just say "no thank you", let them believe what they wish, and close your door if what they say does not appeal to you.

Answer 2

Riddle me this, if your trusted friend walked up to you and said. "I saw a man raise another who had been in the tomb three days," would you call to have him committed?

What if ten men, in complete astonishment, came up and told you that they saw this man heal another man who they had all known were crippled all his life?

What if a hundred people came to you and told you that they saw a man put to death on a cross a few weeks ago, yet he just appeared to them all at once and spoke with them?

Would you consider calling a lunatic asylum?

People did not keep spreading the word about Jesus because it was a fad (though he did cause quite a scene). After Jesus' death, the church was under heavy persecution by the Jewish leaders. There was absolutely no self-motivated reason for spreading the word, save having actually seen the miracles performed (and the prophecies fulfilled), and having come to understand who He was.

Now tell me this, how many times did these people have pass on this story before it wasn't true? Is the story any less true when their children tell their children's children? Absolutely not.

What makes Christianity sane or rational isn't that x people believe. What makes it sane and rational was the fact that Jesus was a historical figure, an actual man, who walked this earth 2000 years ago and had the most amazing life, and that nothing has been the same since.

But, to answer your question, I wouldn't consider calling an asylum, though I would think that person mad. If hundreds of millions of people said that, I'd be very worried about our future.

God Bless!

~ S

Answer 3

back at you, seriously...

would it change anything if what they told you is that they have personally conversated with the "invisible friend"

if everyone else around you can see something and you can't,... maybe it really is you thats the odd one out.

personally I know I see the world differently than most. and thats ok. part of my seeing it differently allows me to understand why theres so much difference.

if thousands of people claimed to experience something that you have not, ... theres probably *something* to it, in some form. SOMETHING that they are perceiving or misconstruing or whatever.

how sure can you be of someone else's, by your view, misperception, if all you have to base it on comparatively, is what *you* have perceived?

Answer 4

like i said already, you are obsessed with mental illness.
you believe in a false assumption. therefore your path is not correct and asking these false questions proves you dont want to believe in God.

when jesus appeared to 500 men after he was put in the grave/tomb. he also appeared to his 12 disciples/apostles and ate fish with them. This is not an invisible God/saviour/ messiah. historical documents outside of the bible have testified that people have seen jesus. even though he was supposed to be dead. and non existent.
your strawman approach to disproving the existence of God is completely flawed even if you can get hundreds of people to agree with you.

Answer 5

It is made easier when the invisible friend comes with strings attached, such as threats of eternity in hell to those who don't make the invisible friend the center of their life.

Answer 6

But the mistake you make...is nobody told us.
WE believe because we found these things to be true OURSELVES.. Once a person has a real experience with God..all your words mean nothing..you might as well convince a fish that water does not exist.

You came too late for me.

Answer 7

I think "invisible" is the key word here. I don't believe in anyone elses invisible friend (but I know mine's there :)

Answer 8

Bingo.

(No I wouldn't have someone put away for beliving in an imaginary friend, unless that imaginary friend 'made' them hurt others)

Of course, many get away with hurting others in the name of their imaginary friends...

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Answer 9

What if he said,.. I know this because I have talked to him...
Would you say he's talking to ghosts,.. or an alter ego inside his head?

Answer 10

usually they reacted that way because of getting lonely..most of them because no one want to be friend with them..
some call them invisible friend some call them imaginary friend..