Have you as a believer in Christ, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Bahai or others experienced the presence of God?
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good question\nbut did u experence the apsent of god ???\nbut yes\ngod exist\nwe don't have enough tools to experence this visically\nbut with our spirit\nwe feel him\nwe feel his power\nevry time evry where
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My husband.\n\nHe was raised as a Catholic. During his teen years, he decided God did not exist and he held to that for years. Then he met Jesus personally and his life was completely changed. He has never been the same since. :)
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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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Several 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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well, there are people from all kins of religions here. hinduism, sikhs, christians of course, jews, muslims, baha'is, you name it.. also, the pagan population is spiking! :)\n\ni have been religious for maybe 2 months.. i've always been a christian, but i hadn't even like opened the Bible until two months ago once i bought one. i read it, and felt peace and finally understood why i was a christian. since then, i have been much more religious. :)\n\ni question my religion daily.. so i'm still unsure, but one day i will have the answer.
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I met a group of Buddhist monks a few years back.  One of the monks I talked with gave off this remarkable energy of complete peace and serenity and it was so palpable I literally felt that I was in the presence of someone who did not belong with the rest of us.  It was awe inspiring.
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I have said this many times to people....i have felt a spiritual connection to many people who i have just met for the first time, and talk to asthough i have known them all my life.....i dont really know what this is but it is very powerful....sometimes i wonder if God is working through them, or me.
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Yes I believe in God, but not the way traditional Christians do.  I'm a Gnostic Christian.
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I was born and raised Christian. After studying the Bahai Faith while in high  school, I became a Bahai.  Because Baha' u'llah often quotes from the Quran, I studied Islam. My fascination with religion led me to take two college courses on world religions, so I have studied some forms of paganism, Hinduism, Sikhism,  Judaism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism and Taoism.   My participation in forums such as this one -- and the violent attacks on Islam - have  led to more study of the Quran. And when the Jehovah's Witnesses dropped by, I studied  with them for awhile until they give up on me and stopped dropping by.  Since I have lived in Ohio, I became interested in the Amish religion and studied that for awhile. Online discussions and the behavior of some of its followers drove me to read up on Scientology. Basically, I find the variety of beliefs fascinating and love reading about them. I find that understanding religion makes it easier to understand people. More understanding, IMHO, would lead to fewer wars.
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Your perception of God is your own.\n\nAs a Hindu I believe that there is one God, but that God is so vast and large that we each individually experience and approach God differently (thus lots of different religions). That all will discover the same ultimate truth in any religion because it dwells within our inner self (and every religion ultimately takes the practictioner to look within). Thus all religions are valid paths. "Truth is one, though humanity calls it by different names." Rig Veda\nAs a Hindu I believe that God always listens to us regardless of what name we call God by that whatever form we meditate upon God, God will always come to us. "What I am is utterly beyond your minds ability to fully comprehend, thus call me by whatever name and worship me and meditate upon me in whatever form. I promise that by whatever name you call upon me I shall hear you and by whatever form you worship me I shall come to you." Tripura Rahasya. \nUltimate God is beyond name and form, and yet manifested the entire cosmos into existences and thereby took form, too. \nHindus believe that when one dies our consciousness projects the experience we will have. Thus, when we die it is our consciousness that creates the temporary heaven we go to. If we have expected heaven to be a place where we gather with our ancestors...then our consciousness will project a heaven with our ancestors and God will take on the form of ancestors to be with us. If we expect a heaven with, say, Jesus, then our consciousness will project a heaven and God will take the form of Jesus. Heaven is just temporary and our karma (actions) and desires will lead us back to samsara (the cycle of birth, death, rebirth) and we will reincarnate. The ultimate goal of a Hindu is moksha or liberation of samsara and union with God completely. They often use the example of an ocean. The water evaporates and forms clouds, the clouds get so heavy that eventually the water falls in the form of rain. The rain forms streams and the streams come together and form rivers. The rivers ultimately merge back into the ocean. God is the ocean and we are the droplets of water. The rivers and streams are just religions and paths back to God.\n\nAnd that is what I believe, as a Hindu.
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Yes, there is God and YES I have SEEN him. I saw him in the eyes of my son, the second he was born. Then I saw God again on the day that very same son hung himself in our backyard. God was there as I struggled to hold my son up with one arm and to reach above his head to untie the knot from the post with my other. God was there as I screamed for someone to help me. God stood beside me as I did CPR on my 14 year old son's lifeless body for 10 minutes until the paramedics arrived. I also saw God in the eyes of the Life Flight nurse that told me and my wife that we couldn't go with him on the helicopter but that she wouldn't leave his side until we got there. When we got to the hospital... there was God holding my son's hand. Before we left for the hospital I made a frantic call to my sunday school teacher and said we were going to the hospital and that my son was hurt badly. We live a major city with a major medical center. There are about 12 different hospitals in a 5 mile radius. When I finally walked into the emergency room waiting area, again God was there and so was my sunday school teacher. The Drs. told us that my son wasn't brain dead but they could tell how bad the damage was until he regained consciousness, if he ever did, I saw God in my wife's eyes at 3:25 am when the nurse came out into the ICU waiting area some 18 hours after this ordeal had begun and said that my son was waking up. And God was there in my son's hospital room when he opened his eyes at 3:38 am bewildered, confused, unable to talk because of the intabation tube in his throat and very scared. \n\nI will tell you this so that here is no question in anyone's mind for all eternity. On that day... in that room ... I SAW GOD IN THE EYES OF MY SON..... AGAIN. \n\nON THAT DAY I WITNESSED A MIRACLE.\n\nmy son was dead. I checked for a pulse there was none. I gave him CPR alone for at least 7-8 minutes before the para's got there. My son has no memory of what happened. Even the Drs. were amazed that he didn't have even the slightest amount of lasting ropeburn on his neck, other than what looked like a sunburn.  \n\nHave I seen God? I see him every morning at the breakfast table. and I love him more than anything else in this world.
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Yes (in a sense)...\n\nI used to be an atheist. Over a period of time however, I grew convinced of the existence of the Christian God, and ultimately committed my life to Christ. \n\nFor a draft-version of my journey from atheism to Christ, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/testimony/seek.html\n\nCordially,\nJohn
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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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I think that belief in God and faith in Jesus Christ has changed my life.  Not in an out-of-touch wierd way, more the way getting to know a close friend better can encourage and inspire you to do things differently.  I love my faith.  I believe it is the one true way to Heaven, and that I was put in this earth for God's pleasure.
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Yes, I have. Once when I was really upset I was talking to God and I felt someone hug me and I knew it was God. The inner pain I was feeling left and I felt much better.
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Yes, lots of people do. I was brought up to believe that Jesus was the son of God and that God himself was a different person, not a trinity. I'm not religious now, but when you've had the same thing told to you since you were a small child it's difficult to unbelieve.
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Well, I haven't met the God personally and none of my acquaintances and known have seen him to describe!\n\nHowever, I have been meeting and seeing his creations - living and non-living every day and getting an amazing, highly creative and friendly image of my God.\n\nI salute him for no match of his!!!