RE: Evidence God Exists
September 17, 2010 at 7:26 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2010 at 7:29 pm by Skipper.)
(September 16, 2010 at 2:29 am)AngelThMan Wrote: But I have felt God was with me in several situations, especially when I've been in some trouble and I have prayed. How do I know it was God that I felt? I will answer you. I've confirmed that it was indeed God not only through my own experiences, but through the experiences of others. I'll give you some examples...
A few weeks ago my sister, her husband, her son and a pastor were traveling through a remote mountain. It started to rain and their car slid. It fell off a cliff and spun three times. All in the car were devout Christians, and they all prayed as the car spun down the cliff. All survived with no injuries.
I was watching Aftermath with William Shatner, and Jessica Lynch was his guest. In Iraq, she was in a Humvee with 11 other people when she got ambushed. During the skirmish, she was the only one that prayed for God to spare her life, and she was the only one out of 12 to survive.
A woman at my mother's church received a terrible back injury and was unable to walk. CAT scans revealed that disks were misaligned, and she could only walk with surgery. The entire church prayed for her, and the woman's condition improved greatly. She was able to walk, and surgery was no longer needed.
I don't know about you guys, but I can't ignore things like these. I haven't experienced anything as severe as the examples above, but I've been in situations in which I have felt that my prayers have made a difference. And that's how I know it was God.
All them things can and do happen without people having a belief or disbelief in god...they just happen.
Example one, a personal one. I was recently on my way to a music festival with 3 friends to take part in a long weekend of doing a hell of a lot of things that god would not approve of. All 4 of us were un religious but we were involved in a massive car accident, I wasn't wearing a seatbelt, none of us prayed...nothing....but we all still managed to get out of the car, walk away from the accident and still manage to get to our weekend of sin, albeit a little late and via using another car that hadn't been completely written off.
Example two, There are plenty of conflicts going on around the world today, and plenty of service men and women fighting in them all, all of different faiths and probably a shit load with no faith at all. All of them get killed. People who have prayed have died equally as people who have survived have not prayed. In your example, how does she know no others were praying? I guess you could say her faith saved her because while she kept her head down praying the others were in the line of fire fighting but who knows the whole situation there.
Example three. My mother works with terminal cancer patients. Many are religious, many are not. They all die. (side note: the Catholics are apparently the ones who are the most terrified...shit scared of what awaits them). Why dosen't god cure any of these illnesses? It's amazing how he only helps cure the ones that can get better naturally or via treatment. God never brings back lost limbs or rids people of debilitating terminal disease...no, he helps peoples back problems. What a load of shit!