Not to Bash Jesus or Anything, But... - Comments

@ addictedsevenfold.
I guess it's just that I've never personally expirence do anything Godlike in my life, like, I've avoided many car crashes. But I personally believe that's my dad looking after me. I believe in spirits because I know they're real, I've had plenty of those expirences but I don't think I've ever expirenced something Godly near me.

It's not something you see, it's something you feel. You don't physically SEE love. It's an abstract idea, you can't see it or touch it, but you feel it inside of yourself. To me, it's the same thing with God. And I have seen Him with how he has helped me to transform my being. I was a very hateful person a few years ago, because I had strayed away from church and God. My mom dragged me to church one day, and I sobbed because I felt so far away and hopeless. I rededicated myself to Christianity and was re baptized a year and some months ago. I experienced true conviction. I am a very loving and optimistic human now and I credit that to God for asserting his power on me enough to move me. I don't know how to explain it, it's just a feeling unlike any other. It's incredible. I feel God's presence with me whenever I am driving, because sometimes there are times where I probably should have been in an accident, but I wasn't. Until you feel it, I can understand why you wouldn't believe, like you said about ghosts. It's all a feeling in your heart. :)

I see gods as a justification for existence. People are afraid to think about what might or might not be real - so they turn to the idea of a Greater Being for comfort and protection. Whether it's real or a placebo effect is not my place to say. [I'm agnostic personally.]

What confuses me most about your blog is that you personally believe in spirits, but don't understand someone believing in a god.

@ shirtless

I didn't really mean to come off as disrespectful, I just don't get it since I was never brought up by going to church or anything so I just don't get it. The Santa Clause thing was just my thought process of believing in something you've never seen, and possibly being lied to about it. Because I also believe in the science world of how everything and everyone started. I haven't felt God near me. Ever, really. So to me it's all confusing and that's more what it was supposed to be about. I'm sorry if anyone read this and was offended by what I said. I just don't understand. I grew up knowing I have to be a Christian, but church was never enforced. Neither was God or the belief. I just knew I had to believe it because it was what was expected of me. I understood nothing when I read the Bible either. I just don't see how it's all really possible.

I'm an atheist so I don't believe in any god, but for some reason comparing God to Santa Claus just hit something for me. This whole blog seems sort of disrespectful, but I guess I see where you're coming from.

People believe in stuff they haven't seen simply because it gives them comfort knowing that they're existing and living for that. And some people have seen or felt God's presence. I used to love sitting next to this girl in my French class because she would tell me how she would go to church and pray and start crying because she felt God next to her, and I thought that was beautiful to love and devote yourself to something so much, even if she "hasn't seen it." When I used to be religious when I was younger, I would swear I would feel God holding my hand while I slept so I didn't have nightmares. It's called faith for a reason -- people believe in something they know watches out for them and cares because (from what I've seen) there is a time and a place for them to meet what they believe in.

There's more to Christianity than just "old bald people in dresses" who wrote down their experiences.