Gullibility - a key to heaven?

[Darkstar]

I did not say God protects you or any number of others, I ask for His protection, if you die in a car wreck, voila! there your proof of God will be.

Err...no. Are you praying that I will die? Even if I did, how would you know it wasn't coincidence? Ok, if you die in a car accident either: 1. God abandoned one of his most ardent supporters, or
2. There is no god.

You may believe it's just faith, and I understand why, because Christianity in your view is to restrictive, so just faith is a way to deny the reality of God.

You use just faith to deny the reality of no god...we can do this all day.

When one truly lives for God in a relationship with Him, one will come to see that what you would call coincidence is as actually reality.

Fixed.

Coincidence is something that might happen once in awhile. When many of your so called coincidences happen, then it no longer can be a coincidence, luck runs out and reality comes to light.

Luck doesn't run out. Explain this
Also, coincidences are purely decided by you. What may be a coincidence to you is meaningless to everyone else witnessing it. Coincidences are actually not very rare. http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/...oincidence

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For those with a highly empirical bent, a coincidence is happenstance, a simultaneous collision of two events that has no special significance and obeys the laws of probability. "In reality, the most astonishingly incredible coincidence imaginable would be the complete absence of all coincidence," says John Allen Paulos, professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia, and best-selling author of Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences. "Believing in the significance of oddities is self-aggrandizing," he adds. "It says, 'Look how important I am.' People find it dispiriting to hear, 'It just happened, and it doesn't mean anything.'"

To the mystically inclined, however, coincidence is a synchronicity, the purposeful occurrence of two seemingly unrelated events. The argument is not likely to be resolved anytime soon. Of late, though, the phenomenon of coincidence has begun to yield new scientific insights. It turns out that we may actually be hardwired to connect anomalies in a meaningful way. Many of the remarkable feats our brains regularly perform—including our ability to learn the meaning of words or decode the unspoken laws of social decorum depend on our penchant for noticing coincidences. In fact, mathematicians, cognitive scientists and paranormal researchers are applying the tools of statistics and probability to tease out just where coincidences lie on the bell curve of everyday experience. Are they easily explained, or so improbable they must signify something?

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"What are the odds of that?"

Not as small as you'd think, answer mathematicians who study the laws of probability. "In 10 years there are 5 million minutes," says Irving Jack Good, a professor in the department of statistics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg. "That means each person has plenty of opportunity to have some remarkable coincidences in his life."

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Improbable occurrences are to be expected, say statisticians, especially considering there are 5 billion people on the planet. "We're awash in a torrent of names, numbers, dates, addresses, acronyms, telephone calls, e-mails, calendars, birth dates," says John Paulos. "The information-rich environment of modern life itself is a source of many coincidences." Even "prophetic" dreams can be explained by probability, says Paulos. This country dreams a half billion hours each night (250 million people dreaming two hours a night). Some of those dreams are bound to coincide with real events.

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Experiencing God is the only way to be able to know God is real. Faith leads to reality when lived to learn truth.

If you believe hard enough, you can, indeed, convince yourself of anything.