christian looking to understand athiests

[Redbeard The Pink]

Welcome OP.

You should start a thread so that we can discuss a topic of your choosing outside of the introductions forum.

This is his first thread but it seems to be in the "atheism" subform.  Am I reading that wrong?

You're correct. This is not in the Introductions forum.

[Minimalist]

hello,  i am a born again christian who is looking to understand and discuss your reasons for being an athiest. i am NOT here to argue or change your mind.

There is no evidence that your god...or any other gods invented by the human imagination...exist.

[Whateverist]

msid -

what this talk of subforms means is that you have posted this thread in a subform where we are not required to be nice. There is a subform where you could introduce yourself and everyone would have to dial back their sarcasm and so forth. Feel free to start the party over there if you like.

http://atheistforums.org/forum-11.html

[brewer]

Curious.

What type of things have you or others prayed for that have come true? Are they ordinary every day things or big I can't believe it actually happened things? Do you think that your/others prayers might be self fulfilling, things that will happen more than likely with or without prayer?

Example: Every day I hope (pray?) that the mail is delivered. This comes true on 6 out of 7 days of the week.
Example: I hope (pray?) that my wife makes it home from the Stones concert safely. It happened.
Example: I hope (pray?) that my dog passes this level of sheep herding trial/certification. I happened eventually.

If you'd like me and others to take stock in the prayers coming true motivation for belief I'll need a lot more details.

[msid]

msid -

what this talk of subforms means is that you have posted this thread in a subform where we are not required to be nice.  There is a subform where you could introduce yourself and everyone would have to dial back their sarcasm and so forth.  Feel free to start the party over there if you like.  

http://atheistforums.org/forum-11.html

 am i required to only be in the introductions forum because im fine here

[Cyberman]

i see that most of you believe what you do because of lack of evidence that there is a God. Personally i am a christian because of all the evidence ive seen and the ways ive seen him answer prayers. ive had people come up to me and pray for problems that i was having that i hadnt told anyone. ive had many prayers awnsered in ways that could only be explained by God. I also completely understand everyone heres point of view

Great. Why not show us a bit of this evidence? Maybe you'll come up with something we've not seen before.

[Chad32]

i see that most of you believe what you do because of lack of evidence that there is a God.  Personally i am a christian because of all the evidence ive seen and the ways ive seen him answer prayers.  ive had people come up to me and pray for problems that i was having that i hadnt told anyone.  ive had many prayers awnsered in ways that could only be explained by God.  I also completely understand everyone heres point of view

And then we hear stories about children dying of treatable illnesses because their parents believed in prayer over medicine. Prayer is not consistent enough to be considered good evidence. One person's evidence is not the same as another, but if there was any concrete evidence for any god, we wouldn't be debating his existence thousands of years after people started writing about him.

[robvalue]

I'm happy to see you undstand our point of view That's more than I get out of most visiting theists.

[Exian]

new Christian

[I_am_not_mafia]

If God answers prayers, does that mean his initial plans for everyone were suboptimal and he needed advice?

no because God created us with a free will and unless we ask him he cant change things that happen in our lives or our choices

What is free will?