Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
I mentioned an experience I had 11 years ago when I almost got hit by two cars and something (or one's arm) went across my chest and pushed me back. Another similar incident wasn't that dramatic (no spirits iow) but two cars almost hit me and one so close I had to get a drink after crossing the street.
I called my Christian former friend and told her the 1st incident. My grandmother had just passed away then and first thing I said was thank you grandma but my friend thought it was god.
Now I don't believe deities exist but she got me thinking that if spiritual awakenings from atheist to theist were true my friend and I wouldn't have drawn two completely different conclusions from the same event.
Her prior knowledge of God lead her to that conclusion. My absence thereof by default did not.
So, I ask believers who have opinions of nonbelievers having spiritual awakenings, has there been any where the person did not have preexisting knowledge of God?
(I've heard it used as proof of god's existence)
And if spiritual awakenings by default lead to God, why do people who share similar events come to completely different opposing conclusions?
Just a thought not a sermon
I called my Christian former friend and told her the 1st incident. My grandmother had just passed away then and first thing I said was thank you grandma but my friend thought it was god.
Now I don't believe deities exist but she got me thinking that if spiritual awakenings from atheist to theist were true my friend and I wouldn't have drawn two completely different conclusions from the same event.
Her prior knowledge of God lead her to that conclusion. My absence thereof by default did not.
So, I ask believers who have opinions of nonbelievers having spiritual awakenings, has there been any where the person did not have preexisting knowledge of God?
(I've heard it used as proof of god's existence)
And if spiritual awakenings by default lead to God, why do people who share similar events come to completely different opposing conclusions?
Just a thought not a sermon