Can anybody tell me any experience which made them belive in God?
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I had always believed in God because I was taught this through the religion my family raised me with. Yet as I got older I started to find other philosophical answers and I am more of a spiritualist now rather that say follow a religion.  Yet I had a near death experience in 2001 and saw a place that my ethereal body was heading for which gave me complete understanding that there is life after death and God is that maker of life and light/love. Without believing in God in this life creates a lesser understanding of the next one.
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Yes, I definitely believe in God.  I have a quote I think of a lot...it goes something like this:\n\n"When you take a look at the human body and look at the unique design and how everything works together as such a perfect machine - you have to think...who designed it?"\n\nSo that might not be the exact quote...but it gives you the basic info.  :-P
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My experiences with praying. \nEvery night I pray. For safety, for my friends, and for my family. \n\nI've still alive, I have a good life, I have great friends and a good family.\n\nRecently though I got into a bad situation. I was kidnapped by my father who I don't ever go to see. He told me I wasn't going to my mom's house for a long time. I prayed hard that I could get out of there. God answered the pray within seconds. Three seconds after Amen my dad came in and said he didn't want me around anymore and that he was taking me to my grandparents house (my mom's parents) and I thought this was the best thing that could happen to me. They took me to church and also took me home to my mom. You might say coincedince, but I say GOD.\n\nIf you truely believe in God and you want a full filling and safe happy life just pray and believe.
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First you should think about if God is what you "think" he is, and then if he is what you imagine he can be, if it's true or not, if it's true, how do you know it's true and if he is not true or not exist can you prove that he is not?\nIf you believe in heaven, then God created the heaven, so how can himself came from heaven!?\n\nso first find out if the God exist or not, then prove it that he is exist or he is not! if you did that then I'm sure by then you will know where he is came from.
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That God answered my prayer, and through miracles, dreams, visions, and words, brought me my husband from 500 miles away.  A man who knows God, loves God, lives for God.  A man who seeks God with all his heart, all his soul, and all his strength. \n\nGod gave me dreams to tell me about this man in advance.  God is real and awesome and dynamic and so beautiful.  He came after me and made me a new spirit.  He came after a man and made him a new spirit.  Then through his great miracles he put us together.\n\nPraise you God, for your glory, your love, and your power and strength.  Praise you, God, in times of pain.  Praise you for who you are.  Let your will be done.
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all things are possible to them that belieeeeeve in God
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To answer this question, you have to ask yourself: is there an inherent need in humans to beleive in God or a deity?  I beleive in God because I acknowledge that something, whatever it may be exists beyond what we know & understand.  That is to say, i beleive that God isn't what the majority of the world would lead us to beleive.  God is there, but we can't possibly understand it.  To understand God is to be God.  This raises another question: are humans their own individual God, just on a different level?  So if you answer yes to the previous question, I think one might be able to take comfort in their own 'Godness,' and the 'Godness' around you.
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I have definetly felt the pressence of GOD. Right before Christmas in 2004, our first ond onlt child, a son, passed away. This was a very hard time for my husband and I, and we stopped going to church. We didn't celebrate Christams that year, and my husband started to smoke cigarettes again. I quit my job to stay home, because being around people was so ahrd. I tried to convince myself that everything was okay.\n\nAbout a month after he passed away, i was going through some of his old belongings and looking at his phot album. I broke down, and it felt good. I dont know what it was for sure, but i felt like someone was hugging me; i felt warm, happy, and that everything was going to be okay. I like to think that our son is our gaurdian angel. \n\nGod has recently blessed us with a new baby boy. I think our first son saw how sad we are, and told GOD to give us another baby....
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sallyezs,\n\nGod is omnipresent. He is everywhere. You can feel His presence anytime and anywhere.\n\nThere is a feeling of God’s presence in corporate worship that is very special. It is unmistakable. I’m not trying to make it sound too simple, but it really is. You will not figure it out. You just experience it. Stop trying to figure out if you’re experiencing God’s presence and just lose yourself in worship. You won’t have to ask what it feels like again.\n\nWhoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and show Myself to him.  John 14:21\n\nThe greatest thing in life is knowing Jesus. He said if we obey His commands He will show Himself to us. There is nothing that compares to knowing Jesus – nothing. If you want to feel God’s presence – if you want to “know” Him – obey Him. God takes pleasure in revealing Himself to those who obey Him.\n\nWhen you are reading the Bible and something just jumps off the page at you, you are experiencing a “rhema” word. (Greek – rhema means the word that God is speaking presently.) You may have read the same passage many times for many years, but this time it comes alive, and you see something that you’ve never seen before. It was always there, but God has made that portion of the Bible come alive to you. You may not sense His presence in a tangible way, but He is personally opening your spiritual eyes to see His Word.\n\nPlease purchase “The Practice of the Presence of God” by Brother Lawrence. It is published by Whitaker House, and it only costs $4. It is a very short book, so you can read it very quickly. In my humble opinion, he is the best expert on the subject – maybe John “Praying” Hyde comes close.\n\nIf you read that book, you will understand more about God than many preachers. God is everywhere all the time, and I guarantee you that if you follow the simple truths in that book you will experience God’s presence anytime and anywhere that you want to. \n\nI am experiencing God’s presence as I write to you. Once you experience it you will not have to ask if it’s real or what it feels like.\n\nGod bless.
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When I learned that no matter what I have done in my life didn't matter, God will love me and forgive me, I thought WOW, how cool is that?!\n\nI wasn't always a "good boy" and even went so far as to say that God couldn't be - just look at the state the world is in.\n\nOne day, I walked into a church and sat down and asked, "Are you real?"  I honestly believe that I heard Him say "yes".  After that, I started to read and study, looking for a Church.\n\nOnce I found one, I went through formation classes, and was Baptized and confirmed at Easter in 2005.  When I was Baptized, I heard "Welcome home".  Not like someone was saying it, but I felt it more than heard it.\n\nMore than you wanted, but it just came out.
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I tried to do the same thing. It never worked. After I gave up this happened to me.\n\n\nSeveral years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away. \n\nWhile driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.\n\nThree days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to. \n\nI feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.\nDuring the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible. \n\nI can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.\n\n I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings. \n\nYour brother don
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I can give some information, but only God can convince you.\nI know this is really long, and I apologize in advance, but to follow the chain of logical reasoning takes a lot of words.\n\nAbsolute Proof for the Existence of God:\nThere’s a lot of really great evidence that God does in fact exist:\n1. The existence of God explains the universal longing of the heart.\nBillions of people have believed in a god, people of differing cultures and times, differing places and customs. Mankind is irreversibly homo religiosis, a religious creature. Even philosophies that had no god eventually had to invent one—this was clearly the case within Buddhism. The Buddha did not teach the existence of a deity, but the Buddha’s followers over the centuries converted Gautama Buddha himself into a god, and he is still revered as such by millions of Buddhists today.\n\nAnd this shift is also a shift to a personal deity. An abstract “force” does not satisfy the needs of the human heart—we need to know that someone is out there, not just something. This same shift was evident within Hinduism. The monistic impulse of Upanishadic Hinduism, with its highly philosophical Brahman, an abstract higher power, was overshadowed over time by devotion to individual, personal gods. We humans arrive on this earth incomplete, sensing a deep need within our souls for the divine. This is the “God-shaped void” in each heart.\n\nAtheism—the denial of God’s existence—simply doesn’t satisfy the longings of the human heart. Man cannot live without God. When people are denied a god, they invent one to satisfy their hearts. \n\n2. Humanity needs an ultimate point of reference by which we can determine our own meaning.\nThis is a point the braver atheists like Sartre have conceded. Their suggestion, of course, is that humanity has no meaning, no purpose, no ultimate significance. We cannot find our significance in ourselves—we long to exist for something greater. As was discussed in the previous lecture, if there is no God who exists and has spoken, we are left absurd creatures whose every action is arbitrary. It should come as no surprise that the fervor of UFO people seems so very religious in its zeal! They want someone to be out there, so that we can have a point of reference from which to consider our own existence! Those searching for extraterrestrial life often argue that humanity’s reason for existence—its purpose and destiny—will only be discovered when we make “first contact” with another life form. I would suggest that that other life form is the One that created us, that made contact for our salvation 2,000 years ago. We find our destiny only in him, for whom and by whom we were created.\n\n3. The existence of God best explains humanity’s sense of right & wrong.\nEveryone has an idea of the perfect, a concept of the good, true and beautiful. This deep moral sense, what C.S. Lewis called the Tao or the Law of Common Decency, had to come from somewhere. Compare the great moral systems of the world through the ages. They are remarkably similar. Faithfulness in marriage, honesty in speech, goodwill toward other people, not shedding human blood, honoring one’s parents—all are moral principles found in every society. Confucius died long before Jesus, but summarized his Law of Reciprocity (shu) by stating, “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”\n\nThis universal sense of right and wrong, what philosophers historically called natural law, cannot be explained very easily without appealing to humanity’s creation by a moral God. And these moral principles are not merely the products of human cultures. Were this so, we would see a lot more variation from one society to the next. But we find them, not only in every culture, but also ingrained in the human conscience. As Paul explained, God’s moral law is “written on their hearts” (Romans 2:15). This had to come from somewhere.\n\n4. The existence of G
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Is same as like y do Hindu belive in many god ?Do they saw their god? Did u saw ur grandfather grandfather's.
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I spent 15 years as an atheist with no faith.\n\nThen I met some people I knew had something I wanted.  They asked if I believed in Jesus and between us we established I believed He exsited but not that He was any more than a historical character.  I had training across the ocean at that time and during that time asked God that if He existed would He give me a sign.  He did but thats a long story.   Still I had no faith I just understood there was a God.  Knowing that however did change things.  Latter I got back in touch with other members of this same group that had something I desired.  They gave me a set of tapes by Malcolm Smith that did an excellent job of telling who Jesus was and what He did and what He would do for me if I asked.  \n\nAt this point I had the faith that if I asked Jesus to give me the comforter He would.\n\n\nThis is like a scientific experiment.  I studied formed a theory and figured if I completed this experiment I would get the expected result if I did the experiment correctly I would have the results I wanted to receive.\n\nLike when you flip the light switch you understand that if you do this the light will go on.  You have faith that flipping the switch will give you what you desire ===light.\n\nSo I said a sinners prayer and let God know I wanted to be His friend and that I accepted the leadership of Jesus and the comforter.  I received what I desired and was a changed person.  Upon receiving I also got free of charge a love for reading the Bible.  Where I never could understand it b4 now every word was full of meaning and as I used what it said I began to see the world in a different manner.  Now all was true that I understood and at every turn more truth and understanding.  Since then I have read it completely several times and find that although this Book was penned by many contributers there is a continuous influence that is easily recognized consistant and very much a friend.  I have read the Qu'ran and find this same friend there as well.\n\nSome say the Bible contradicts itself and can be made to say anything but I know that all of God's friends know this to be false.   Note not everybody who says they have faith in the Bible knows it like we do but those who do, do not disagree on much.
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Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. This is my part testimony. There is far too much to tell it all... it needs a book! \n\nMy first meeting with God was aged eight, I met Him inside a coma lasting months. I awoke, because the ambulance transferring me from one hospital to another, hit a bump in the road. I didn't want to be here, I just wanted to go back to the place I'd just left. \n\nA place, that was like no other place I've ever known before or since. Where love, and peace and joy, is so complete and pure, it affords us all the answers to all the questions, that you never knew you'd asked. It makes everything about us whole, and there is no feeling like it. Nothing in this life can ever match it. \n\nIt is the most non-judgemental love, forgiving and accepting, enveloping and safe, and without anybody telling me, I 'knew', I just 'knew', this was heaven, and I was in the arms of my Father, God. \n\nYet no one ever spoken in my home of God. Because, as I would learn much later, my dad was a serious atheist and mum was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, for marrying out. Religious believe, was a serious no go area in our home. \n\nI already had a happy disposition as a child, despite being bullied at home by older siblings. But, that first meeting with God (of many more since) would ensure, not only that I kept my optimistic and trusting nature, throughout many more varied and serious personal trials to come, it would afford me Faith... that would last forever. \n\nYou see, though the 'place' visually faded from my mind's eye, though the physical world intervened again and hurt me often, God allowed me to keep the 'vivid memory of the feelings' I had on the instant I awoke. In effect, He afforded me, the 'memory of the reality', which is, far more real to me, than anything in this sphere to this day. \n\nIt did and does, still afford me the personal knowledge and certainty of God's existence, of His love for me, of His constant protection, of an invisible shield, that stays around me forever. And I have never doubted since, though believe me, there is a power that tests me, to try and make me doubt, always trying to destroy my faith. But it never will. Though it never misses a trick. \n\nI am no one special. This shield is also yours to share. \n\nMy second experience of meeting God came through meeting Jesus, at age thirteen years. I was to discover exactly what the trilogy meant at a very young age. It was when I was asked by a friend to take her place teaching under fives at Sunday School one day, because she was away. \n\nI had never been to sunday School, let alone understood what the heck it meant. But I went in and did what she had said to do, read the nativity story to them from the bible, then let them draw a picture, then gave them stick on stars. \n\nBut I was troubled, I didn't think I was qualified to do what I was doing, I felt a burden of responsibilty for the children's hearts, what if I had done it wrong. \n\nI went home and pulled out the Bible that I'd never really read before (free school edition, supplied to all of us by the Gov back then) because, my Catholic Bible argued too much with C of E version when we had to do RE in class and read aloud. The teacher got fed up and was unable to answer my myriad questions about the differences. And, not least, I could not, would not, reconcile an angry old testament God, to the loving God I'd met. I was a rebel. \n\nSo, I stared at thirteen to read the story of the birth of Jesus, and I got caught inside His entire life, then through the whole of the New Testament, I couldn't put it down. \n\nIn between, when I had reached the crucifixion, I was on my knees in tears, wanting to be there, wanting to prevent it, angry, hurting, because this wonderful man had done such wonderful things and loved, even inhis dying, he forgave. \n\nAnd this man suited my heart, he felt as I felt about everyone,
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I was raised in a Christian home but as I grew into adulthood I began to have doubts.  I think some events in vietnam made me question a lot.  Then going to school afterward I began to explore other philosopies eventually labeling myself an agnostic.  However I always remained curious and would on occasion read the Bible as well as other philosophy books.  One night about twenty years ago I was reading the Bible and had just started a new chapter and as I read it was like I could hear the words audibly...and in an instant..I believed.  I knew it was true like never before.  I didn't hope it was true.  I didn't wish it was true.  It wasn't a matter of faith for me then.  I knew it was true as certainly as I am sure that I exist.  I never had an experience like that before or since.  well..i guess that's religous but it's the most spiritual thing that's ever happened to me...kinda made me feel strange.
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Aparently something because this happened to me.\n\nSeveral years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away. \n\nWhile driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.\n\nThree days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to. \n\nI feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.\nDuring the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible. \n\nI can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.\n\n I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings. \n\nYour brother don