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BusinessRe: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by CriticMaestro: 12:20am On Feb 22, 2017
Avenger4NL:
Wow! 9 don red. Issorait grin. We keep on trying cool.
our acount don dey shine 555 stainless steel, make person no borrow gamble oh? besides y that guy the look for 40M, wetin happen?
BusinessRe: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by CriticMaestro: 12:06am On Feb 22, 2017
Avenger4NL:
Lol! I no sabi say u sef go still remember sha grin.

Meanwhile make I check to see how selections spoil that Calebsky .
red come pass green for that one
Christianity EtcRe: Just For The Atheist by CriticMaestro(op): 11:57pm On Feb 21, 2017
offcourse! or have u forgotten that your deluded mind is gradually driving you into insanity
PoliticsRe: EFCC Arraigns Chairman Of Sharia Court Of Appeal In Gombe For Fraud by CriticMaestro: 11:54pm On Feb 21, 2017
seunmsg:
He should have been arraigned before a sharia court so that if found guilty, his arm will be amputated in accordance with sharia law.
shege atheist
PoliticsRe: Ubah To FG: Review NYSC Service Year To 1month, Give N300,000 To Graduates by CriticMaestro: 11:51pm On Feb 21, 2017
delawal:
The Managing Director, Capital Oil and Gas, Dr Patrick Ifeanyi
Ubah has called for the review of the National Youth Service
Creview-nysc-service-year-1month-give-n300000-seed-capital-graduates/
if dey tell u make u read that long essay, u no go cry?
PoliticsRe: Stop Calling Nigeria ‘Naija’ - NOA To Nigerians by CriticMaestro: 11:49pm On Feb 21, 2017
PMBNG:
http://www.socialtimesng.com/2017/02/fg-nigerians-nigeria-naija/
op u dey mad abI? na my naija u wan change im name? kai pa
BusinessRe: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by CriticMaestro: 11:37pm On Feb 21, 2017
free 10 0dds for tomorrow's game, oya subscribe.
3J33NZC
BusinessRe: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by CriticMaestro: 11:14pm On Feb 21, 2017
BusinessRe: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by CriticMaestro: 11:12pm On Feb 21, 2017
IN CASE U MISSED THE 8 GOAL THRILLER, HERE IT IS


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4YigJEFyp4
BusinessRe: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by CriticMaestro: 11:08pm On Feb 21, 2017
Krak:
Sheffield was supposed to win that match without sweat.
[b]SUPPOSE[/b] FOR BET? U BE LEARNER?
BusinessRe: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by CriticMaestro: 11:07pm On Feb 21, 2017
I GET 3 SURE ODDS SHA
BusinessRe: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by CriticMaestro: 10:56pm On Feb 21, 2017
WHO MAKE AM TODAY? LET'S HERE YOUR TESTIMONIES SO THAT WE OURSELVES CAN GET HOPE FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE...CAN U BELIEVE THAT I NEARLY SQUANDERED THE MONEY DEPOSITED INTO MY ACCOUNT BY BY POPS TO ORDER SOMETHING FROM KONGA FOR HIM!!! IN THE MEANTIME I HOPE TO GET DELIVERED FROM THIS GAMBLING SPIRIT
Christianity EtcRe: Atheism Taken To The Extreme by CriticMaestro: 10:41pm On Feb 21, 2017
obinna58:
Have given u enough explanation, are u a kid?
hahah u no even get shame, just run bouy
Christianity EtcRe: How UK Professor Arthur Allison Got Converted To Islam by CriticMaestro: 10:38pm On Feb 21, 2017
Auki:
You critise Islam because it said mankind should:
1. Believe in One God.
2. Avoid worshiping anything other than God like stone, sun, moon,Jesus, Mary or any created things.
3.Believe in all the messengers including Jesus(peace be on him)
4.Do all that is good and avoid all evils.

To God that created you and I, you will one day come to know the truth.

If you are among the blessed, that realisation day is before you depart this planet. If you are unblessed, the day will be on ur death bed-at soul parting point-and the fire of Hell will be your eternal abode.

Beseech your Lord to guide you. Your current trajectory will lead you to destruction. Albaghdadi and your co-travellers will be your enemies before your Lord.
hey dont deviate my friend, the professor was an atheist before now.. and when u say someone coverts to islam is it write for him not to praying 5 times a day, or by mere saying he is a muslim all problems are solved
Christianity EtcRe: Atheism Taken To The Extreme by CriticMaestro: 10:35pm On Feb 21, 2017
obinna58:
Wondering if this question is really meant to be asked

Sky=heaven (religious mentality)
ehn explain it now
Christianity EtcRe: Just For The Atheist by CriticMaestro(op): 10:18pm On Feb 21, 2017
“The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who – in their grudge against traditional religion as the ‘opium of the masses’ – cannot hear the music of the spheres.”

—Albert Einstein

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“God created everything by number, weight and measure.”

“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.”

“I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.”

—Sir Isaac Newton, who is widely regarded to have been the greatest scientist the world has ever produced.

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“Both religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.”

“There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person realizes, I think, that the religious element in his nature must be recognized and cultivated if all the powers of the human soul are to act together in perfect balance and harmony. And indeed it was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.”

—Max Planck, the Nobel Prize winning physicist who made the crucial scientific contribution of founding quantum physics. Planck was a member of the Lutheran Church in Germany.

Religion and Natural Science (Lecture Given 1937) Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, trans. F. Gaynor (New York, 1949), pp. 184

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“Jesus appeared to the disciples after the resurrection in various forms. He appeared to Mary Magdalene so that they might take him for a gardener. Very ingeniously these manifestation of Jesus is to our minds difficult to penetrate. (He appears) as a gardener. The gardener plants seedlings in prepared soil. The soil must exert a physical and chemical influence so that the seed of the plant can grow. Yet this is not sufficient. The warmth and light of the sun must be added, together with rain, in order that growth may result. The seed of supernatural life, of sanctifying grace, cleanses from sin, so preparing the soul of man, and man must seek to preserve this life by his good works. He still needs the supernatural food, the body of the Lord, which received continually, develops and brings to completion of the life. So natural and supernatural must unite to the realization of the holiness to the people. Man must contribute his minimum work of toil, and God gives the growth. Truly, the seed, the talent, the grace of God is there, and man has simply to work, take the seeds to bring them to the bankers. So that we “may have life, and abundantly“.

—Gregor Mendel, who is regarded as “the father of modern genetics,” partly due to his pioneering work on plant hybridization. Mendel was also an Augustinian friar (Catholic priest). The above is an excerpt from an Easter sermon which he delivered.

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“This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being – der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity – a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.”

—Abdus Salam, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in electroweak theory. He is here quoted in his article entitled Science and Religion.

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“I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence. Believe me, everything that we call chance today won’t make sense anymore. To me it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.”

–Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and string theory pioneer.

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“The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power.”

–Nikola Tesla, the inventor and futurist scientist known for numerous inventions, but best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply system. Tesla was the winner of: Edison Medal (1916); Elliott Cresson Medal (1894); John Scott Medal (1934)

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“I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.”

“Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent it must have been created.”

—Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell, who is credited with formulating classical electromagnetic theory and whose contributions to science are considered to be of the same magnitude to those of Einstein and Newton.

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“For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence—an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered—-‘In the beginning God.'”

“Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.”

—Arthur Compton, winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Compton Effect.

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“Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist must be rather silly.”

“Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would make God smaller than he must be assumed. When he stated that these laws hold, then they hold, and he wouldn’t make exceptions. This is too human an idea. Humans do such things, but not God.”

–Nobel Prize winning physicist Max Born, who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics.

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“God is a mathematician of a very high order and He used advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.”

–Nobel Prize winning physicist Paul A. M. Dirac, who made crucial early contributions to both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.

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“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”

“In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world. Although I am now convinced that scientific truth is unassailable in its own field, I have never found it possible to dismiss the content of religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind, a part we shall have to give up from now on. Thus in the course of my life I have repeatedly been compelled to ponder on the relationship of these two regions of thought, for I have never been able to doubt the reality of that to which they point.”

—Werner Heisenberg, who was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics for the creation of quantum mechanics (which is absolutely crucial to modern science).

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“I’m not an atheist, and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.” [Italics are mine]

—Albert Einstein, as cited in Antony Flew’s book, There Is A God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind.
Christianity EtcJust For The Atheist by CriticMaestro(op): 10:15pm On Feb 21, 2017
Most atheist in the world always say the stopped for a minute to think whether God truly exists or not, which makes them think the have the right mental faculty to disbelieve in God. well as the case maybe the quotes below are from some of the Greatest minds to ever live on earth..enjoy

“The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.”

–Charles Darwin, the founder of evolutionary biology, as cited in his book Descent of Man.

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“As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but we do not see our goal, we do not see the horizon; in the distance tower still higher peaks, which will yield to those who ascend them still wider prospects, and deepen the feeling, the truth of which is emphasized by every advance in science, that ‘Great are the Works of the Lord’.”

—Sir Joseph J. Thomson, Nobel Prize winning physicist, discoverer of the electron, founder of atomic physics.

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“A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.”

–Joseph H. Taylor, Jr., who received the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the first known binary pulsar, and for his work which supported the Big Bang theory of the creation of the universe.

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“The more I study science, the more I believe in God.”

–Albert Einstein

(The Wall Street Journal, Dec 24, 1997, article by Jim Holt, “Science Resurrects God.”)

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“I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know his thoughts; the rest are details.”

–Albert Einstein

(From E. Salaman, “A Talk With Einstein,” The Listener 54 (1955), pp. 370-371, quoted in Jammer, p. 123).

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“God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.”

—Physicist and chemist Robert Boyle, who is considered to be the founder of modern chemistry.

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“It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.”

“People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature-the laws of physics-are simply accepted as given, as brute facts. Nobody asks where they came from; at least they do not do so in polite company. However, even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith that the universe is not absurd, that there is a rational basis to physical existence manifested as law-like order in nature that is at least partly comprehensible to us. So science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview.”

–Physicist Paul Davies, the winner of the 2001 Kelvin Medal issued by the Institute of Physics and the winner of the 2002 Faraday Prize issued by the Royal Society (amongst other awards), as cited in his book God and the New Physics (first quote), and from his acceptance address of the 1995 Templeton Prize (second quote).

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“Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey Burbidge, of the University of California at San Diego, complains that his fellow astronomers are rushing off to join ‘the First Church of Christ of the Big Bang.’”

–Astrophysicist Hugh Ross, former post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology and author of The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God.

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“Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth. And they have found that all this happened as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover…. That there are what I or anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically proven fact.”

–Astronomer, physicist and founder of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies Robert Jastrow. Please see Jastrow’s book God and the Astronomers for further reading.

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“I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.”

“If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.”

—Lord William Kelvin, who was noted for his theoretical work on thermodynamics, the concept of absolute zero and the Kelvin temperature scale based upon it
Christianity EtcRe: This May Save An Atheist, Please Read by CriticMaestro(op): 10:00pm On Feb 21, 2017
the guy above me, are u sure you're up for it?
BusinessRe: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by CriticMaestro: 9:41pm On Feb 21, 2017
kumulus:
Although it's kinda sad....but it's a good one for morale.

B918RSASWRPEP-3293253


Cc Frankolino

Na ur game I remix...good luck if yours is still greening.

Please more of tins like dat from the rest of the house, just like Calebsky did with the MOSTER ACCA.
May the odds be in our favor...
wetin sheffield dey play?
BusinessRe: Football (+Other Sports) Betting Season 11 by CriticMaestro: 6:54pm On Feb 21, 2017
Obikush:
League: South Africa: Premier League
Date : 21/02/2017
Time: 18:30
Match: Platinum Stars - Mamelodi
Tip : ( X / 2 ) HT FT
game no far u come cut
Christianity EtcRe: Monotheism Is A Scam Played Upon The Masses. by CriticMaestro: 4:32pm On Feb 21, 2017
KingSango:
God is an English word and doesn't not mean the same thing as Irunmole.

Sango, Oya, Obba, and Osun were Imperial royal Ancestors as they once lived and walked the Earth. So did the father of them Oduduwa walked this very Earth in Ile Ife. Regardless of the debate of where Oduduwa came from, which I think was East Africa, Oduduwa was still high class royalty. Oduduwas was the brother of Obatala and Obatala is said to have walked the Earth. Irunmila once walked the Earth and so did Esu. No matter what African religion being studied, Igbo, Hasua, Buganda Kingdom, Zulu, Dogon, or whereever, the beings chosen for worship were royal and noble ancestors. These ancestors go back further to more ancestors that were also considered royal, noble and divine. This line traces all the way back to the Creator, who is the oldest Ancestor of the African. When you worship in African traditional religion this is what is meant by ancestor. Our ancestors connect all the way back to the original ancestor, "Olodumare", the "Creator". Now the names change often in African tribal worship but the concept stays the same. This is not the concept of the European, Asian, etc but only the African. Monothesism proports the notion that their God created man separate from Himself as a part of creation. All African religions teach that the Creator created the human being as a part of His family and put guardians; i.e, Kings, Queens, Great Sages, Elders and nobles above them to govern them. This thought is the cradle of African civilization as we often everywhere in the world refer to each other as brothers and sisters. We look upon our elders as fathers and mothers. This is because we are cosmic family and we are immortal. It is the European and Asian that is finite, of this world, not connected back by blood like the African to the Irunmole. Ase.
sorry are u an atheist or traditionalist?
Christianity EtcRe: Christians How Would You Deny This Blatant Contradiction by CriticMaestro: 3:04pm On Feb 21, 2017
Sibe007:
When did you stop believing in Santa Clause being real, or the tooth fairy?
They are not biblical, so watchu saying hommie?
Christianity EtcRe: Christians How Would You Deny This Blatant Contradiction by CriticMaestro: 3:04pm On Feb 21, 2017
mrmrmister:
I've heard of TB Joshua and Oyakhilome.
I've heard how they scam people of their hard-earned cash.


You still haven't answered my question.

Have you had any hardcore experience of the God you believe in.
Have you ever witnessed a genuine miracle?
yes I have, thats y i mentioned those names, u can visit their church if u like
Christianity EtcRe: Christians How Would You Deny This Blatant Contradiction by CriticMaestro: 2:29pm On Feb 21, 2017
mrmrmister:
Did you witness any of the miracles performed by christ?
Or you just read about them in the bible?

Remember the first question I asked you


And your answer



Have you HAD any HARDCORE experience of the god you believe in?
Christ said in In John 14:12, “Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father” In our present time we have many men of God fullfilling the scripture or haven't u heard of dem T.B Joshua, Chris Oyakhilome and the rest?? they perform miracles that only someone in contact with a divine being can do that, if not u to can be a miracle worker
Christianity EtcRe: Christians How Would You Deny This Blatant Contradiction by CriticMaestro: 1:10pm On Feb 21, 2017
mrmrmister:
How do you know he's the true God?
because he has assured us that for every man who believes in him, he shall be saved, moreover the signs and wonders performed through miracles by christ on his servants its enough testimony that God exist and we worship him
Christianity EtcRe: Christians How Would You Deny This Blatant Contradiction by CriticMaestro: 12:45pm On Feb 21, 2017
[quote author=mrmrmister post=53918164][/quote]The only one true God which the christians worship
Christianity EtcRe: Christians How Would You Deny This Blatant Contradiction by CriticMaestro: 12:17pm On Feb 21, 2017
mrmrmister:
I have a dog that flies, can you prove that my flying dog doesn't exist?

You still haven't responded to my question.
fine, quote me with ur question and make sure u keep an open mind
Christianity EtcRe: Christians How Would You Deny This Blatant Contradiction by CriticMaestro: 11:14am On Feb 21, 2017
mrmrmister:
Lmfao cheesy
You're the one who believes in his existence, the burden of proof shouldn't be on me.

Btw pls respond to the question below.
or it should, cuz I also need u to defend urself
Christianity EtcRe: Christians How Would You Deny This Blatant Contradiction by CriticMaestro: 10:28am On Feb 21, 2017
mrmrmister:
So you haven't had any hardcore experience then?
I like your honesty though. wink
what is prove that he doesnt exist?
Christianity EtcRe: The Christian Chatbox ( sticky) by CriticMaestro: 10:07am On Feb 21, 2017
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Christianity EtcThis May Save An Atheist, Please Read by CriticMaestro(op): 9:42am On Feb 21, 2017
Religious people seemed annoyed by my question, "How do you know that God exists?"

Perhaps they wondered about my motives. Or maybe they had no idea how to answer. Most of their responses were, "Well, you just know."

I wasn't trying to be difficult. But I certainly did not "just know." And I was hoping someone did!

atheist experienceAfter many months of this, I thought, "Here are the people who say they believe in God, but no one knows why!" It was like learning the truth about Santa Claus. It seemed obvious that God was completely fabricated. Maybe some people needed to believe in God but clearly there was no proof. No objective evidence. I came to the most stark conclusion...God did not actually exist.

I held this belief for years, not expecting it to ever change. But then I met someone who caused me to become interested in the possibility of God. She was caring, kind, and very intelligent. It bothered me that someone that intelligent could believe in God.

She talked about God like he was her closest friend. She was convinced he deeply loved her. I knew her life well. Any concern she would take to God, trusting him to work it out or care for her in some way. She would tell me, quite candidly, that she was merely praying that God would act upon her concerns. For over a year, I regularly saw what seemed to be answers to her prayers. I watched her life through a myriad of circumstances, and her faith in God was unwavering.

So, I wanted to believe in God on one hand, because I admired her life and her love for others. But I couldn't believe in something against my intellect, against my better judgment. God did not exist. A nice idea, but that was all. Wanting something to be true, doesn't make it true.

During this time I was developing a personally built philosophy.

I tried something that I'm not sure many people do. Every few weeks, I would study a particular philosopher's take on life ...Nietzsche, Hume, Dostoevsky, Sartre, Plato, etc. and then try to apply it to my own life. I was looking for the perfect, workable philosophy for life. I found over and over, that either their philosophies seemed lacking, or were too impractical to implement. But I kept searching.

I was challenging my friend with every question that came to mind about God. I would find myself writing out questions late in the evening. This went on for well over a year. One day she handed me a book1 that briefly answered questions like, is there a God; is Jesus God; what about the Bible. It presented facts. No comments like, "you have to believe."

I saw some evidence for God that was solidly logical. The parts particularly convincing to me were the chemical properties of water and the earth's position to the sun. It was all too perfectly designed, too perfectly put together. My faith in "nothing behind it all" seemed weaker than the possibility of God. I had fewer reasons to be certain of nothing, and more reasons to conclude that God might be there.

I then encountered a situation that fully challenged my current philosophy on life. What I had been putting my faith in proved to be completely insufficient. It shocked me to see that I was at a loss for an approach to life that was fully reliable. However, the situation resolved itself and I moved ahead. I have a pretty steady personality. Throughout my life, I never really felt "needy." No on-going crisis. No big gaps or struggles. And certainly nothing I felt guilty about.

But the concept of God was something I couldn't get off my mind....was he there? does he exist? maybe there's a God.....

One night I was talking to my friend again, and she knew I had all the information I needed. She knew that I had run out of questions to ask. Yet I was still trying to debate. In one clear, abrupt moment, my friend turned to me and said, "You know, I can't make this decision for you, and God's not going to wait forever."

And I immediately knew she was right. I was playing around with a very important decision. So I went home and decided that I was going to decide. I was going to either ask God to come into my life, or I was going to end the subject forever and never allow myself to consider the possibility of God again. I was tired of dealing with this decision. I was tired of thinking about it.

So, for the next three or four hours, I reviewed everything I had read and observed. I evaluated it all.

atheist experienceI concluded that the evidence for God was so strong that it made more sense to believe in God than to believe he wasn't there. Then I had to act on that conclusion.

I knew that just intellectually concluding God existed, was way too light. It would be like deciding...airplanes exist. Faith in an airplane means nothing. However, if you need to get somewhere and an airplane is the way, you have to decide to act and actually get on the plane.

I needed to make the decision to actually talk to God. I needed to ask him to come into my life.

After a few hours of thought I addressed God, "Ok you win. I ask you to come into my life, and you may do with it whatever you'd like." (It seemed reasonable to me, that since God exists, God had every right to influence and direct my life, if he wanted to.)

I went to bed and the next morning wondered if God was still there. And honestly, I kind of "sensed" that he was. One thing I knew for sure. I immediately had a huge desire to get to know this God whom I now believed in.

I wanted to read the Bible. When I did, it seemed that God was spelling out who he is and how he viewed this relationship with him. It was amazing. What really surprised me is how often he talked about his love. I hadn't expected that. In my mind, I was simply acknowledging God's existence. I had no expectations of him, but as I read the Bible, he chose to communicate his love to me. That was a surprise.

Now, my basic, skeptical nature was still there. The first few months or year, I would ask myself, "Am I really believing in God? And, why am I?" And I would methodically review five objective reasons why I believed God existed. So my "faith" in God did not rest on feelings, but on facts, on reasons.

To me, it's like the foundation of a building. The facts/reasons support my faith. It's like someone driving across the Golden Gate Bridge. They can feel whatever they'd like about the bridge. But it's the construction/design/materials of the bridge itself that allows them to safely get from one end to the other. In the same way, the objective reality of God--the logical, historical, scientific reasons to believe in his existence, are important to me. There are people who don't seem to need that. But I hate being fooled, and I have little regard for wishful thinking. The substantiating reasons for God's existence mattered to me.

My Experience, Part 2 – Further Evidence of God

Since that time, now that I've been a Christian for a number of years----why do I now believe in God? What reasons do I have for continuing to believe in God?

I'm not sure any of these are going to be believable to you. But I'll try to put that concern aside and be candid with you. Previously my questions were about God's existence. After beginning a relationship with God, I saw additional evidence that God is real. Such as...

1. When I have questions, concerns, or would like insight on a matter, God speaks to me through the Bible. What he shows me is always perfectly suited to my question, and a better, more satisfying answer than I expected. Here's an example.

One day, my schedule, deadlines, and obligations were crawling up my neck and tightening their hold. You know that feeling when you're so overwhelmed, you don't know what to do first?

So I got out a piece of paper and pen, and asked God: "Just tell me what you want me to do, and I'll do it." I was fully prepared for shouldering 100% responsibility, and was basically asking God to just set the priorities, tell me how to approach it all, and I would.

I then opened my Bible and immediately read where Jesus was talking with a man who was blind. Jesus was asking him, "What do you want me to do for you?"

I read it again. Jesus asked: "What do you want me to do for you?" Rather amazed, I picked up my pen and began writing an entirely different list...to God. This, I have found, is characteristic of God. Reminding us that he is there. That he cares, and he's capable.

I choose that example because it's brief. But I could cite hundreds of examples where I was asking God a question and he perfectly, thoroughly answered me. It probably is the characteristic of God that I most appreciate and value--that he is willing to answer my questions.

This isn't something I learned from other Christians. It's just how my relationship with God operates. I ask a question, with an attitude that I really want to give him freedom to tell me whatever he wants to....to correct my thinking, to point out an area in my life that isn't right, to show me where I'm not trusting him, whatever. And he always graciously speaks to me.

2. Similarly, when I need direction for a decision, he gives it. I believe that God cares about our decisions. I believe he has a plan for our lives, that he cares about who I marry, what kind of job I have, and some decisions smaller than that. I don't believe he cares what toothpaste I buy, or lots of mundane decisions. But decisions that will affect my life or what he wants to accomplish through my life...I think he cares.

When has God given me clear direction?

One time I needed to decide about a trip to the Middle East. There was risk involved, and I was willing to go only if God wanted me to go. It was important to me that I knew what he wanted.

Two different times I asked God about a job. Both times his leading on it was so clear, that anyone watching would have concluded the same. Let me try one thin slice of an example.

During my senior year of college, I had decided to take a job with a Christian organization after graduation, that would require a move to California.

It was Christmas break, and I was now visiting my parents. One evening, I was alone and thinking through a long list of friends. I was wondering who I could talk into moving to California with me to be roommates. One person named Christy, came to mind, who had already graduated and settled in a job in Iowa. I thought she'd be the perfect roommate, but I hadn't talked to her in several months. Just 30 minutes later, at my parents home, Christy calls me on the phone.

Her first sentence was, "I heard you are taking a job with this Christian organization." I was floored because I had only told one friend, in Ohio.

Her next statement was, "Ok, I've got the pots and pans and dishes." I said, "WHAT?!" She was moving to the same town in California and was calling to see if I would room with her.

Ok, so you see my point.

You might ask, why such a big deal, to even need God's help in this decision? I knew that my parents would be completely opposed to this job. I thought it might cost me my relationship with my parents forever. So it was not a light decision. I asked God to guide me toward what he wanted. And he did. There were about ten other events related to this job, just as clear.

Other reasons I still believe in God...

3. In terms of explanations about life--why we're here, what the purpose is, what is important in life, what to value or strive for--God has better answers than anything I've ever read anywhere. I have studied multiple philosophies and religions and other life approaches. What I read in the Bible, what I see from God's perspective, all the pieces of the puzzle fit.

There is still a lot I'll read in the Bible and close the Bible saying, "I don't get it." So I don't mean to suggest I fully understand everything in the Bible. Instead, I'm saying that life only makes sense from the perspective of what God has revealed. It's like reading the operating manual to life on earth, only we are not left to merely follow the manual. The inventor is explaining to us how it all works, and then offers to personally guide us through it, on a daily basis.

4. The intimacy with God is deeper than intimacy with any human being. I say that married, with two children, and tons of very close friends. His love is perfect. He's incredibly gracious. He takes me right where I'm at, and as I said, speaks to me. He intervenes with actions that leave me amazed as the observer. He is not a belief or doctrine. I see him act in my life.

5. He has done more with my life than I would have done on my own. This is not a statement of inferiority or lack of self confidence. I'm speaking in terms of accomplishments that far exceeded what I ever had in mind. He provides ideas, direction, solutions, wisdom, and better motives than I could aspire to on my own.

Well, there is more, but I think that gives you enough. I'm not sure any of it is believable to you, but I've been as honest as I know how to be.
Christianity EtcRe: Religious Children Have Trouble Distinguishing Reality From Fiction by CriticMaestro: 9:39am On Feb 21, 2017
you guys always seek for prove, when u dont have prove for ur misbelieve

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