I would just like to know if any of you that are religous have ever had any
experience that really made you believe in god?  Something extrordinary that
happened to you?  Have you ever had any experience where you thought something
impossible, asked for god's help and had it happen?  I've heard a few things
that were really quite intrueging and wanted to know if you people had any
experiences like this to share

26 responses total.

sadly, I have noit.

Nothing extraordinary has happened to me, no.

Why do we need a God a created the universe?

We don't *need* one - the Universe is here, now, regardless
of whether there was a creator - then again, not everyone's
view of divinity includes "creator".  I believe in many gods,
but I don't think any of them "created" me, or the universe.
My parents "created" me, which is enough of a problem.  >8)

I do not faced such kind of miracles.  I have heard my friends telling those
things.. but i know only in bits.. I will convey after full discussion..
.:

Re #4--but many people feel a psychological need, iof not a physical one, to
understand why everything exists and works the way it does.  

well, in own case i have a EXPIRIENCE when i was a child : i remenber that
i eat something and put me sick when my father turn his view over me he saw
that i was sick,then he pray for me and the pain left me............
now i grown and i now  have knowledge about thinks ............
1: the people say:....why beliefe in god.....?
2:i don't think god creat me.....~!
so, when i was a child and the pain left me 'cause my father pray.....
u can say is a casuality......but i say no.....................u can say
...WHY...?

'cause if i pray for something and it happen that is not
casuality.....right..?
if you don't beliefe in god....is o.k....you have your oun expectatives
i just answer .....and i don't need understand the world because never i will
do that ......i believ in god because he exist'cause if he don't exist the
pain wasn't leftme in that moment..........but....that is my particular point
of view about THE LIVE.............

Sounds to me like a very good reason to believe in your father's
own healing abilities, since there was no direct contact with God.
(BTW, did you mean "casualty" (victim) or "causality"? (having been
caused by))

excuse me.....of course....causality......~~~!!

I am the new kid on the block but here goes nothin' ...or somethin'
or what ever ... If I understand the query the Quizor (great word eh?  Is it
real or is it just a fabrication?) (You get the idea ...) is seeking evidence
of supernatural experiences ...  I consider myself "Religious" well, not
really but I do believe in God 'in the EXTREME' !   I am also a magician and
I could create for you what you would have to agree is a supernatural
experience - the proper setting - the perfect props - you'd believe it was
supernatural.  I don't believe the issue here is one of events but one of
relationship.  The Living God wants to have relationship with you not shaking
beads or lighted incense.  It is in this relationship that Gods supernatural
power will be manifested in your life - on a personal level - not on display
for the whole world.  Only those with a personal relationship with Him will
ever get the full revelation of His Glory and Power - those without personal
relationship with the Living God are relagated to speculation at best.  It
appears to me that you are looking for something real and there is nothing
more real than The Living God and a personal relationship with Him.  But ...
wadoeyeno eh? 

I didn't come across such situations in my life. But I do believe in so called
"Super natuaral Power". I named that power as "God". I heard a lot about the
miracles through my friends. But I don't want to mention them, because I don't
know whether they are guinine or not.

I'm going to take for granted, for the moment, that the leading theoretical
cosmologists have good reason to support their claims concerning the physical
universe and its origin. As limited as my knowledge of the Big Bang is, and
as completely ignorant of what caused it or what happened before it, as i am,
it still makes much more sense than a supreme omnipotent being snapping its
proverbial fingers, and instantly creating everything. Here's a question:Is
our universe infinite in size or finite in size, and how can you live with
either answer?

personally, I know for a fact that there's a God, a very personal God. 
However, I kow that many people probably share this opinion without sharing
my view of God, and I'm not going to argue about whose God is the true one.
But I have exsperienced him, as well as about a hundred other men and middle
school boys 9don't ask)) in a spectacular manner.  You had to be there,
really. It was a greeat experience.  And nobody conjured anything up, nobody
was coerced or influenced (trust me, people who weigh over 200 pounds do not
fall backwards onto a solid flor without trying to catch themselves on their
own). That to me, if nothing else, is all the proof I need.

Well, that was easy now wasn't it?

        I believe that the creator speaks to different groups in different
ways, the many faces of God if you will. The native americans would not have
understood Jesus, nor would the jews understood the Thunderbird. Our epistemic
condition and environment brings about this necessity.

Nope.. i can't think of an experience that would provide concrete proof of
the existence of a 'god'... but then what exactly is that entity we call
'god'?

Can't think of any concrete proof of love that I can offer you. I know that
love is real, for I have experienced love..and hate...and anger...and
itelligence, too. But there is no concrete proof that they exist. Oh well...
To me God is the one who set all things in motion, and to be in tune with that
force, one walks in harmony with all that is.

hokshila--wouldn't having felt love, hate, or anger, constitute proof that
they are possible?

Then again, asking someone to describe of define love, anger, etc.... you'd
come up with a few different answers and would they all be correct? Just a
thought.

Also, I have never seen 'concrete proof' of ANYTHING!

Exactly... emotions are so very personal... and relative too! If i can
experience anything consiously, it is proof enough for me.

well i must say that my experiences with religion have never been as big as
i always expect them to be but i have felt god many times... i have been a
worryer all my life and yet i always have faith that things will turn out for
the best... that is one of the manifestations of my beliefs.... i also have
felt him on more specific instances... but it is like falling in love... it
is much different than it is on tv... it takes you by surprise to realize that
god created the world and told people all sorts of things about his
existenc...

I believe that humans have ascribed anything unknown or ununderstandeable
to being the manifestation of God. I mean anything beyond our power and 
scope of knowledge has till date been described as Supernatural. Our 
forefathers, who didn't know about rain, changes in seasons, etc. used
to ascribe these phenomena to God. Well, today we know the exact mechanisms
and causes of these phenomena and don't put it in he categories of Super
natural or that created by God. But, there remain thousands of mysteries of
naturewhich at the present times may appear supernatural but would be
dispelled with the advancement of science. But as our knowledge of Universe
and nature would never be complete wel would keep on believing in God.

I look at the different world religions today, and their perspective gods,
the same way I look at the ancient Greek, Roman, Myan, and Incan (to name a
few) gods. I hope some day you will join me.

   hmmm. isn't that somewhat like a religious person saying they hope
that someday you'll "see the light?" :)

<chuchle> :)

To believe in God and to have a personal relationship with Him is the real
taste of day-to-day life.

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