(January 5, 2016 at 9:17 am)Jehanne Wrote:(January 4, 2016 at 11:13 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: I left faith for a few years, and identified as an atheist/agnostic. Last year, I returned due to an experience of faith, and that was something that never occurred prior to leaving Christianity. What's changed now for me is my faith is about less dogma, and more spirituality, if you will. More prayer/meditation and less about rights and wrongs, fire and brimstone.
Assuming that you believe in god, do you also believe that he/she/it answers prayers, that is, is the outcome of some particular event in the future changed as a result of someone praying versus that same individual not praying?
That's a good question. I've always had mixed feelings about others praying over others. For example, when I returned to faith last year, a Christian friend said to me 'I had been praying for you to come back!' And she meant well I wasn't offended or anything, but while I pray now, I view it more as a way for me to connect deeper with God. On a personal level. I don't believe prayers are a laundry list of wants and needs when as I had first viewed them before I left Christianity. I just view my return to faith as a result of a personal faith experience I had last year.
