What convinced you to believe in God...

What convinced you to believe in God? If there was no particular instance where you realized there was a God was it because its the religion you were raised to believe? Only 2% of the world doesn't believe in a god, over 7bn people believe in some form of God. I want to believe but I can't convince myself to dedicate my life to something or someone that I have never seen or heard of outside of word of mouth. Help me become a creationist guys, I WANT TO BELIEVE

The book of revelation makes sense if you look at the world today. How can it predict so well if it was written by a man so long ago?

Nice bullshit statistics

Even when I was an Atheist I would find myself saying stuff like, "thank you, God". So I guess it is just natural to me now. I knew all along.

I dont own a bible, could you tell me some of the things it predicted?

>What convinced you to believe in God
My father was an exorcist. I witnessed things. Knowing satan and the demons existed, God must have existed, too.
Yet, as a younger man, I chose the demons. Deo gratias that is the case no longer.

I believe I have Freewill, Freewill necessitates a God! If Freewill doesn't exist, then that means EVERYTHING is Determined! If everything is Determined then it doesn't matter what you do! Well, I think what I do, matters!

Tell me more.

I was a communist and realized that it was a hate movement and it was quite literally the devil.

I realized that Christianity has done far more for the working class than any ideology.

After that you just realize the whole thing works. And it works very well. That and it's true.

Doesn't God claim to know everything? If he knows everything he knows have you will do. And if everything you will do in the future is already determined do you actually have freewill?

Well, what do you want to know.
This canard. If I had transcendent knowledge of what you were going to do given a situation, how does that remove your will to do something else?

>Well, what do you want to know.
Some exorcist stories of course.

I'll talk about pic related. I don't know how much time I have as I am at work.
>late 1980's
>Central Louisiana
>home is infested with demonic activity
>family is an irreligious family; mother raised Catholic but no longer practices
>rosaries are broken apart by themselves over night
>statues of Jesus and Mary become decapitated without falling over
>toilets flush by themselves
>cabinets open by themselves

>house catches fire
>fire marshal determines unknown cause of fire; says it could've been electrical but no one source found
>fire damage isn't total; scorches walls, etc
>my father called
>he was given faculties by the Bishop, Sam Jacobs, to perform exorcisms in the name and authority of the Catholic Church
>exorcism performed; exorcism ended in master bedroom
>pic related is closet where pornography was kept
>3 demonic entities manifested themselves on the wall as they were leaving the home
>one is featured in pic, one is in process of manifesting, and one (in another pic that I do not own) manifests to the right

i was non-religious. atheist.
it was my 30-40th time eating psychedelic mushrooms... drank some orange juice...
sat on a couch.. and found god.

left my body.
saw dimensions.
saw my life flash before my eyes.
met my soulmate.
match made in heaven.
saw the light.
saw wheels of people.
entered the light.
felt perfection. felt all that is.
got sent to my hell too.
hating the devil doesn't win.
you got to love the devil to gtfo.
got a lecture from god.
got sent back into this plane of existence.
and i chose it all.
cause i am god.

That's pretty spooky man.

I started believing when I realized that my one true god had to be right and everyone else was wrong.

Look into science objectively and you'll find God there, look into philosophy and he's there too, engineering, the interaction between all things is full of evidence of God.

You just need to see it, and I started seeing this year. Everything is the way it is because that's the only way things can be, that's divinity and it's not going to be explained by listening to the opinion of others. You must look yourself.

The universe is too perfect to be random. I was raised Christian, became atheist because my life sucked and I was becoming rebellious, but once I was on the outside looking in I realized that I had made a mistake and studied the Bible until I found my faith again.

Can I ask what he told you?

Take LSD and talk to god.

Human nature is to worship something. Give them some meaning to life. Democrats are trying to get us to worship a large powerful federal government that controls our entire lives. The people who founded the greatest countries on earth were all christians who worshipped Christ instead of the government.

Well the best way is .....when your ready....

I was raised in a Christian home but when I moved out I became everything everything I was raises not to. Things like pornography took control of my life and slowly I succumbed to one vice or another. But the morals and conscience instilled in me never stopped screaming and with each failure I grew to hate myself more and more until I considered myself a vile and evil person who should die. I hated myself, the world, and the culture of degeneracy that surrounded me but I remembered growing up and learning about someone who stood against and died to protect me from the things I hated long before I was born. As I tried to escape what I despised I found myself running in the direction of Jesus and Christianity. A place where people where united in their love for the man who payed the ultimate price to save us from evil and strive to live up to his example. We can never be perfect like Jesus but by putting our faith in him he can save us from our evil nature and promises we will live with him in heaven forever. If anyone reading this feels the same as I did find a good uncompromising church and read the Bible and I promise God will start to work in your life to bring to to him.

If you can't even separate God from religion then just go have a play in a sandbox mate.

I could feel Him after hearing the gospel
I just knew he was out there
the Bible being super redpilled reaffirmed those feelings, when you look at society and understand absolute evil is working behind the scenes trying to subvert ultimate good

>Humans haven't figured out what God is yet therefore it can't exist.

The way I came to believe in god was philosophy.
>Monism wrecks any kind of dualism
>Consciousness favors idealism over materialism
>Cosmic idealism makes more sense than micro or macroidealism

Have you seen demons? I don't know if they are separate creatures or people that gave up to sin and were eventually consumed or chose to sell their soul for a temporary pleasure.

I have. Worked EMS in the inner city.

You kids can have fun on Sup Forums and this containment board of political discussion, but for those of you that don't take the word of God seriously, you have no idea what is going to happen to you.

Ok let me put it this way. The chances of any of the proclaimed gods worshiped by religions on earth are anywhere close to what "God" would be is extremely slim.

Yes "God" may exist but that doesn't mean following some cucked religion will make you anywhere closer to this supposed being.

Yes I have. They were angelic beings who fell; God withdrew His grace at their rebellion. When we become consumed with sin, our nature becomes like the demons' (of that sin) nature.
Most demons in cases of full or partial possession are named after sins. Lust. Hate. Homosexuality. Various perversions and vices.

>I have. Worked EMS in the inner city
Meant to inquire about this; interested

where do I acquire a cute anime demon girl?

3 men made me believe in God

One of em was my dad n another John Paul II

Love and light. God is within all of us.

Tell me more about that picture you posted.

Top 5 major city... seen innumerable examples of evil. Name it. People that are crying holding a dead baby then laughing as they take a drag off of a cigarette. Six year old girls with gonorrhea. Ten year olds sticking things into their vagina to abort the baby dad put in their. People trapped in their ill bodies begging for death. Junkies crying as their bodies are dying asking for another chance. People shot in an alley looking off in the distance realizing their lives were a mistake and in 20 seconds it will be too late to do anything about it. Suicides were people surrended to their ways.

Everyone asking for more time but it's too late. That's the takeaway.

THE HOLY BIBLE.

It's the literal word of G-d. Literally says so in The Bible.

their = there. Trying to type and drink coffee.

In the world maybe 2% of non believers but in my country non believers can be the majority for indigenous people.

Good Lord that's horrific.
At work so I'm linking previous text. Any other questions, I'll go on.

>thinks whites are superior
>has to borrow a sandnigger religion where you worship a Jew
>believe in "original sin" that the jew saves you from
>jew is literally god

Why is Sup Forums so hypocritical on this point? You hate the jews but worship one?

You dislike non-whites but love one more than you do your own family?

Pathetic.

I was not raised religious at all. I was born again pretty much on my own from militant atheism about 15 years ago. I've been shilling and debating Christianity on Sup Forums since 2009. I've seen all that atheists and pagans have got to throw at Christianity, faith tested and confirmed till death. Looking back, my mind was probably opened by a combination of Bible reading (I started doing this as part of literary studies and to debate against theists; by the time I'd finished I had accepted Jesus as my lord and saviour), literary studies, studying near death experiences, observation of the natural world and scientific discoveries, Christian/spiritualist tradition in family, loved ones dying, charismatic Christian friends, among other things. The Bible is all you really need.

First of all you don't have time dedicate your life right of the bat. Take your time.

Second, I was fedora-tipping hard not too long ago and what helped me to really get interested in religion was the fact that many scientists who I thought were so above it all and weren't falling for the god meme were actually considering or even were convinced of the existence of a god entity.
Maybe start here.

Is it scary man knowing that these entities exist? I've always known that they exist simply for the reason that God exists. How do we protect ourselves from them?

My mother who used to be a muslim, saw and talked to god when she was desperate for finding the true god

Theres a high end and a low end to a belief in God. There is are few reasons to put faith in theistic faiths, aside from wanting the security of pascals wager.
Then there is a high tier which embodies “The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”

No. I am more afraid of people than demons. You protect yourself by staying away from sin; even the near occasion of sin.
Keep a prayer life.

Sounds excellent

stuff like that has happened before though and the actual rapture didn't occur then
plague and famine constantly occur
at any point in time it would be pretty easy to stop and say "hey, this bad stuff that's happening is awful similar to revelations" and yet the world turns on without any trumpets sounding

>keep a prayer life
I didn't quite understand what you meant by this. Isn't it near impossible to stay away from sin? I mean, you can avoid some things, but like I said, isn't it impossible? We aren't perfect, only Jesus is.

I don't doubt your sincerity, but i don't believe the things you think you saw actually happened

There's a name for the fallacy of what you're saying here but i don't know what it is

>only 2%
Buddhists generally are atheistic

Even though there are some buddhists that worship buddha as a god, despite the whole "do not worship me as a god" schtick he had going on

Yep. It is impossible to completely stay away from sin. With the grace of God all things are possible.
There are two types of sin, as Scripture teaches us.
>1 John 5:16-17
>He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death, let him ask, and life shall be given to him, who sinneth not to death. There is a sin unto death: for that I say not that any man ask. [17] All iniquity is sin. And there is a sin unto death.
This means there are degrees of sin. Not all sin is equal, stealing a pack of cigarettes is not the same as murdering an innocent. The Church has always called these 'mortal sins'; sins that kill the life of grace in your soul, or 'sins unto death.'
We can absolutely avoid mortal sin. Keep the commandments.

I was raised in a liberal Catholic household, in a loving family that was never struggling, because even when times were dark (like economic crisis days etc.), we had our prayers, and we all prayed and we all felt connected on a level that my peers didn't have with their moms, dads and siblings etc.

There were many points in my life where something could go horribly wrong, but it didn't, because I prayed to God and asked him to guide me in my deeds, and I made sure myself, that I was ready to struggle for what I had to achieve, which was only possible because I felt God was with me every step of the way.

I don't know how else to explain it, but faith is something that once it's acquired, can hardly ever leave, and I've done things I'm ashamed of now, things that were only possible once I abandoned God, but He never abandoned me's the thing.

Once you truly believe, something in you changes profoundly, and you're constantly on this edge between internal peace and struggles of real life. The latter don't dominate your life in the same manner anymore, and the more you pray, the happier you get on the inside, and I guess that's what Church Fathers would call "getting closer to God".

If you want to acquire faith in God OP, ask yourself a simple question: you know how atheists always go "oh well if God does exist, then why does he allow horrible things like cancer, terrorists and Drumpf etc. etc. to exist?". It's a really interesting argument, until you ask yourself, well if there is no God, then how do you know that all these things you've mentioned... are actually horrible?

If there's no God, there's not reason to suspect something is wrong or right. But both us the believers and atheists themselves clearly feel that these things are horrible. All of humanity does. And that to me is one of the basic pillars on which modern man can build his temple of faith.

>if there's no god, then how do you have a basis of objective morality?
You don't. That's why morality is subjective based on the period, culture, and specific person in question

To demonstrate this lack of consensus even here: is slavery morally acceptable?

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I used to be kind of angsty through my high school and college years and was more towards atheist/agnostic, but not in an edgy way, I just never felt a connection or heard the voices the way Christianity was described to me. I genuinely wanted to believe, even going to church with friends voluntarily a couple times when I was younger and going to YMCA camps as a kid despite not having a religious family, but never really got the connection or understood the design.

For the past year, (23 now) I've sort of come to accept there is some higher power out there with a sense of moral an pro-human agenda. I still haven't quite decided what I think that power is, but I don't think it is a classically defined God as by any religious textbook, although I do tend to align with Christian ideals.

It sort of just hit me like a sack of bricks one day when I was sitting at the end of my dock watching the sunset alone by myself. The sky was a beautiful blend of oranges, blues, and purples as the sun went down, the lake was silent, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. I just sort of looked at it all and was taken aback and sort of felt part of a greater design, not significant or like I had a destiny, but just that I was in a world that was far bigger than I that no amount of science or research would ever explain. Overall a very insignificant event from an outside perspective, but that feeling and my thoughts afterwords still resonate with me. I'm still trying to learn more and keeping an open mind, but it's a very different path and mindset than I used to have.

> Raised Mormon
> Believed in It
> Became Atheist
> Explored Science
> Science Proved we're living in a computer simulation.
> Study History.
> World Leaders involved in conspiracy to destroy / alter / hide the Textus Receptus and Occult Religion.
> Study Textus Receptus
> Holy shit.
> ...
> Holy shit.
> This computer simulation is running Evangelical Christian software.
> Read the Textus Receptus in full.
> Holy Shit.
> Begin Communicating With the Holy Spirit Through Random Music / Random Number Generators.
> It's true.
> All of it.
> Rapture coming.

Feels good to be saved.

Because I know how little I know.

Well fuck. I wish I had the ability to put it as simple as this before I made a long blog post. This is a very good simplified summary of how I felt when I had my epiphany

It predicted flight.

Matthew 24:20
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! 20Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter or on the Sabbath. 21For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.…

Instead of God let's call it the supra-ordinate moral principle.

Pretty much this

Textus Receptus? looking it up just lead to greek translations of bibles.

This

Amen brother

I made he choice to convert to Greek Orthodox Church from Bosnian Islam.

I am receiving my Baptism/Chrismation and receiving the Holy Eucharist. today and later this week.

I will accept Jesus Christ as my lord and saviour and seek redemption.

That's heavy man. Thanks for sharing.

Time is our most precious resource. Let's dedicate our time on earth to something good and righteous.

You made a good choice user. Will you be under any threat from family and friends and community for rejecting Islam?

You can accept Christ right now brother, that doesnt have to wait

>39They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 40But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. 41Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

The Children of the Devil
>42Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 45And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. 46Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? 47He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

Yes I will.
But I have moved to Western Europe and my community is about 98% White Christian.
We have Catholic and Orthodox Churches.

I felt more attracted to the Orthodox way.

Welcome brother

Life made me remember , experiences of how disgusting this world is , and how Christ said this is not his kingdom

>14For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: 15Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: 16Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

Ah, distinctly I remember (fuck if I know tho December twas or not):
>be about 12 or something
>taking a shower
>suddenly decide to abandon Orthodox Christianity and pledge myself completely to Cthulhu for shits and giggles
>do it as seriously as possible in my mind
>take off the cross and never wear it again (relatives practically gave no shits - not too religious themselves)
And that was that. Still remember it sometimes and laugh. Thank you Howard.

>Textus Receptus
Explain. Now.

>breaking the first 3 commandments for "fun"

God Bless You user. Can I ask why you made the change?

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Its the original Greek Bible. The "Received Text". Not that Latin cathcuck bastardization. The Textus Receptus is where the King James Bible was translated from, which is why the King James is different from all other English translations and is the true inspired word of God in English.

I want to live a life where the faith I look up to doesn't promote violence and spreading ''faith by the sword''

Thanks.

They say it's impossible to get out of hell and I like a challenge.

Logic led me to believe in One God, who is One Being.

My belief came after years of being a self described hardcore Atheist. There was a rabbi who helped, mostly to shrug off the Freudian perspective I had used to rather selfishly defend my beliefs against the truth, a truth that I knew deep inside and caught very rare glimpses of in those rare instances when I had the strength to be honest with myself. But mostly, my belief emerged from my own thoughts and sensations.

The reality is, a lot of people are just too stupid to ever come to God through higher thought. And many are too insensitive to really feel his presence. For these people, most of their faith comes from simple conformity.

I'm very thankful my faith came from a deep sense of knowing that arrived only after many years of what I believed to be certainty in my atheist dogma.

King James bible is jewified version of the bible

>If he knows everything he knows have you will do. And if everything you will do in the future is already determined do you actually have freewill?
That doesn't even follow logically...

If you live on a timeline on which you have free will, it doesn't matter if God can see all points on the timeline.

And yes, free will is the ultimate proof that God irrefutably exists.

>Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. - Matthew 10:34

Allah will judge you for your apostasy. If you survive the slings and arrows of this life, expect worse circumstances in the next.

That's talking about running away.

Isaiah 5 talks about railroads (untiring horses with hooves like flint) and airplanes (beasts that roar and carry passengers safely from one place to another over land and water)

KJV definitely has political biases in it (such as changing any time a child shows peculiar revelatory skills, because that might promote what Joan of Arc said/did), but in general, it's pretty good.

King James version is God's perfect word sorry to break it to you.

I went through difficult times in my life and picked up a KJV bible and read it from cover to cover over a few weeks. Everything started clicking in place and I started to see the world as it is. For me it was reading the word of God, praying and giving my life to him. I've had very personal prayers answered and have seen his work in my life and lives around me.

Along with my personal experiences, I can say that the scoffers are constantly proven wrong by hard science. Also, the bulk of atheists just want to whine about the catholic church. They're free to do so, but I object to a Roman pagan cult that teaches things diametrically opposed to the teachings of God being called Christians.

>What convinced you to believe in God?
My life. I know.
>Help me become a creationist guys
Creationists are fucking retards that can't fathom the concept that there was nobody around during Genesis' six days to measure or catalogue the passage of time. Creationism's a joke and they should treat the concept of Evolution as evidence of God's intelligent design. What greater testament to a creator could there be than the fact that its creations can change and adapt to become stronger and better from generation to generation?

No, they reject Evolution under the pretense that to accept the idea is to accept that Evolution is the origin of the species and thus their religious doctrine could not be true. This is the logic of a fucktard and a heretic.

God's real, Evolution's real, the Genesis story is an allegory, and people take this shit way too seriously.

Don't take serious matters like that so lightly.

>There was a rabbi who helped,
Literally Jewed

>Creationism's a joke
The Bible says we reproduce after our own KIND, and the idea that we came from monkies and bacteria is absurd.

Can you get your father to exorcise Podesta's evil twin Skippy?

Would you take care of making me take it seriously then?

Using the word "flight" does not at all imply flying machines. "Flight" historically has had many meanings, including fleeing. Also thousands of flights have already occurred in the winter and on Sundays, and no unmatched tribulation has arisen.