Thread 17777960

What made you believe in God?

Miracles, too much evidence to ignore.

For the inevitable atheist that ignores this, look at the sources for miraculous activity accounted to be worthy of belief by the Catholic church one by one. If you still don't believe it you're like one of those philosophers before 1800 that believed meteors didn't exist

>>17777960 (OP)
Hitler believed.

>>17777982
name one

>>17777960 (OP)
Personal experience via a friend of mine

>>17777960 (OP)
I don't. No strong convictions against religion, I just can't bring myself to believe it, no attempts at reasoning it are going to convince me because most of them are dumb and could apply to anything you so desire.

>>17777960 (OP)
The Holy Spirit

>>17777982
Catholics falling for obvious scams like Medjugorje was one of the first impulses that set me on a path towards atheism.

>>17777960 (OP)
Throne theophany.

>>17777982
christcuck’s razor: if you need a reason to believe, you don’t — and if your belief depends on justification, you’re not a true believer, you’re a functional atheist pretending for comfort. real faith doesn’t argue, explain, or beg to make sense. it simply is. the moment you start defending it with logic, morality, or social utility, you’ve already confessed you don’t trust it on its own. you don’t believe in god — you believe in the idea of belief, because the alternative terrifies you.

>>17777996
that he got past the captcha without having to ask for help

>>17778002
Have you read Genesis?

>>17778032
According to Jesus the sings of a true believer are:

>And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

So if you can't do any of this things you don't really believe and the holy spirit is not in you.

>>17777996
Fatima. Have some more:
Our Lady of Lourdes
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Akita
Our Lady of Kibeho

Note that those are just Marian apparitions. Plenty of healings, eucharistic and other miracles too.

But read it up yourself. Why should I throw these pearls before you swine? Can't you put any effort into your own belief?

>>17778026
Međugorje is not part of that worthy of belief list. I myself do not believe it . Maybe it happened but it's not on the strong belief list

>>17778032
Projection. Seethe then seek God. Put effort into Him

>>17778410
Yea. Cool to read but just don't think it happened. Also the Bible becomes exponentially more boring after Exodus.

>>17777996
A woman loves me, and it's not a blood relative

It was easy when I was a kid, I just sort of absorbed what the people around me were telling me. Later I fell away and stopped thinking about it. Eventually in a fit of nihilism and depression I started engaging in sort of wishful thinking, I didn't want to live in a world without God. Now, after a handful of very specific personal answered prayers, the alternative is unthinkable.

>>17777960 (OP)
G-D is my homie. G-D is my bestie.

G-D is a fat cat. Lmao

>>17777960 (OP)
God spoke to me.

>>17778528
What did he say, anon?

thoughtless golem thread

>>17778533
I am God.

>>17778598
Well shit that doesn't really narrow it down, does it?

>>17778787
Recently he told me, I've swept the nations.

>>17777960 (OP)
Quit posting my girlfriend bro

>>17777960 (OP)
Australian Aborginals disprove the existence of god. And I don't even mean it in a chuddy way.

>>17777960 (OP)
That a perfect woman like that exists

>>17777960 (OP)
I could legitimately beat her ass

>>17777960 (OP)
Listening to Pastor Anderson sermons.

>>17778454
>Note that those are just Marian apparitions. Plenty of healings, eucharistic and other miracles too.
You're going to wish you were never born. Have fun.

>>17777982
Miracles are easily explained with magic and the occult, which do exist. Prayer works because it uses the same laws as magic.

>>17777960 (OP)
The prostate. There is no evolutionary benefit to it being an erogenous zone. It's clearly designed to make anal sex feel good. That implies a creator who wants us to have gay buttsex.

>>17777960 (OP)
Seeing your face, cutie.

>>17777960 (OP)
Realizing the alternative to god is absurd.

>>17777960 (OP)
creationism
occult themes in pop culture
corruption of the vatican and western civilization

>>17777960 (OP)
The fact there's no other alternative

>>17777982
>sources
Many sources lack detailed scientific reports, and historical miracles rely on witness testimony

Serious question
Is this what you mean?

>>17778454
>Fatima.
The source of Fatima was the rejection by the government of children imagining images in the clouds, to the extreme that the government was arresting these children.

Is this what you mean about the source? What is your understanding of the "source" of this miracle?

>>17780784
That is still quite a good source. If you don't believe it, I suppose you don't believe Caesar got assassinated then since it was a recorded eyewitness testimony? When sailors say they saw rogue waves you wouldn't believe that too?

>>17780793
>Hey I saw Mary
>Quick arrest the children!

>>17777996
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLGxw3b3mR4
Look and be prepared to burn in hell.