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GeistInTheMachine · 31-35, M
Lol.

I had an intense spiritual experience, and especially since then I have experienced too many intense synchronicities to doubt anymore. It obliterated my atheism.
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DeluxedEdition · 26-30, F
@momononoloco hopefully they have some medicine that can help your unhinged ignorant mentally ill ass. 🤔
pride49 · 31-35, M
@GeistInTheMachine Your spirituality must not be mainstream then. Mainstream religion requires you to spread your faith
Ceinwyn · 26-30, F
Not the one everyone else believes in. Everyone thinks of god as a kindly father who grants wishes.

But if he exists, he is something much older and much less interested in people. And he’s nothing to do with books that pretends to be laws.
TheOrionbeltseeker · 36-40, M
@Ceinwyn Maybe or Maybe not.
SarithBorn · 18-21, M
I do not. 😇
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
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caesar7 · 61-69, M
I was raised Catholic, now I'm a spiritualist.....it's more tangible that way.
caesar7 · 61-69, M
@momononoloco Luckily for me....I was never an altar boy...but my brothers were 😆👍
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Budwick · 70-79, M
God's existence is obvious to any sentient being.
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HollyW · 18-21, F
@Budwick Not so. Sentience comes with rational ability and it never supports God existing. I disagree with mocking believers in God, though- which this post seems to do.
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graphite · 61-69, M
Funny how the folks who claim to not believe in God are the ones talking about Him the most, trying to sell everyone else on their nonsense that the universe came to be with no supreme being in charge. It's a stretch to believe that. Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior. We're all going to find that out eventually.

“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’ Romans, 14:11
@graphite it's all the leftist woke atheists who think science has all the answers. They worship people like faucin as a god which is disturbing
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SW-User
I don't, but if I know if I was hanging off the side of a building I would
be praying to God to save me..
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basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
Depends on how you define God.
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basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@momononoloco consciousness could be part of everything. That's what I believe. I believe the scientific term for it is panpsychism.
walabby · 61-69, M
@basilfawlty89 @momononoloco
I'm with you guys, broadly speaking. The finer points of my opinion change with new data anyway... :)
I don't know whether to or not to believe God.

I know there is good and bad, and trying my best not to do bad.

If there's god , he will be happy for what I do.

If there isn't , atleast my fellow Humans will be happy.
walabby · 61-69, M
Spiritual experiences (genuine ones) are not proof of a Jewish/Christian God. They are just indications that there is something more out there...
TheOrionbeltseeker · 36-40, M
I am a follower.
Mathers · 61-69
I got to know him
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
I think it's hilarious that some of the angriest people responding to your post have already got me blocked.
revenant · F
Makes more sense there is one
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@revenant How?
revenant · F
@LordShadowfire nothing is random
SW-User
That’s a loaded question
XDHyperGirlXD1 · 31-35, F
Because i am god 👀 shhh dont tell anyone 🤫
pride49 · 31-35, M
Lolz I'm too stupid to know or care otherwise 🤣
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Why Did I Decide to Follow Christ? 7/1/21
My memory is shattered and scattered. I don’t get to choose what I remember and what I forget, unless I write it all down. This is the way my mind operates.
I don’t remember the first time I heard the name, “Jesus Christ”. I don’t remember the first time I heard the gospel. But I remember the first time the name, “Jesus Christ” pierced me. I do remember the first time the gospel meant something to me.
I don’t know how to describe the first time I spoke to God. I don’t know how to describe my view of Him. It was just after midnight on June 11, 2015. I was sitting at a picnic table under the gazebo at the Horsetooth Mountain Trailhead in Fort Collins, Colorado. My friends had shared Jesus with me for many months leading up to this moment. I had been asked many questions, like,
“What do you think about Jesus Christ?”
“Where will you go when you die?”
“Are you a good person? Do you think that’s enough to get into heaven?”

None of those questions meant anything to me. I did not believe in the God of the Bible. And finally, that night, I was confronted with the burning question:
“How do you make your decisions?”
I looked up. I choked on my words. For the first time I did not have an answer ready. I thought for a moment and said,
“I mostly do whatever comes to mind.”
I realized in that moment that I was broken.
“The Holy Spirit guides me in all my decisions. He helps me know what to do.”
Something snapped in me right there.
“I want that.”
I will always remember the cry of my heart in that moment:
“If You are real, help me stop hurting people.” I do not remember the exact words, but I will always remember that three shooting stars flew across the night sky as I prayed for the first time.” I remember laying on my couch later that morning, playing back all my sin in my mind…. A freight train plowing through my imagination. A weight impossible to bear. I slept, and after the sun rose, I wrote to God for the very first time, telling Him all about my sin. Apologizing. Asking for forgiveness. The full gravity of all of these things would not hit for another few years… Sin, Repentance, Grace, Mercy…. I didn’t understand what I was talking to Him about but I wanted to start.
That Sunday I went to a church service for the first time. This was the first song I remember hearing a church sing:
“Holy Spirit you are welcome here
Come flood this place and fill the atmosphere
Your Glory, God, is what our hearts long for
To be overcome by your presence, Lord.”
I didn’t understand why they lifted their hands up, or moved side to side. I didn’t understand why some cried while they sang. I didn’t understand how this music moved the souls around me the way it did, but I would learn.
The pastor came out to speak. I pulled a bible out from the pew in front of me. NIV.
“Please open to Galatians Chapter 5.” I listened intently to the whole teaching, but the only part that I remembered for later was this:
“So, I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh.
They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.
But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law.

The acts of the flesh are obvious:
sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy, drunkenness, orgies, and the like.
I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is Love, Joy, Peace, Forbearance, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Against these things there is no Law.”

This was the first thing I marked in a bible. I took it home with me, and I analyzed my life on a word document. I sat on my bed by the window with my clip on lamp over my shoulder. I wrote it all down, the two lists. I had every single “act of the flesh” in my life, and not one single “fruit of the spirit”. I didn’t care about the Kingdom of God. I didn’t care about salvation or the Mosaic Law or Jesus having Died for my Sin. I didn’t know any doctrine, I didn’t have any scripture memorized, I was not perfect, but I knew two things in that Moment:
1. The Holy Spirit could guide me to make my decisions.
2. The Fruit of that Holy Spirit described the man I wanted to become.

And so I jumped… I was one way, now I am another. What happened in between was Yeshua Ha’Masiach

That is why I decided to follow Christ. No other religion promised to teach me the way I should live.
I had a sense of morality without God, and wanted to be a good person… and at the very least Jesus has given me a structure to achieve this. I have many other stories to tell about what he has done for and through me, but I’ll limit this simply to my conversion.
TheOrionbeltseeker · 36-40, M
@SW-User wow
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