lol uups I became religious

Do you think you would have chosen to believe in God if you'd never heard of the idea of God before?

 

Definitely not a bad thing.

Sometimes God finds His way into your life in ways that you wouldn't expect. I was going through some hard times a while back, and so on a whim I decided to pray. It wasn't something that I had ever done before, it was really just a last ditch effort to get some relief. I had been raised in a Christian household, but I myself wasn't particularly fond of the idea of God as a child, I suppose the idea kind of intimidated me a little bit, but it was just a lack of understanding, really.

Much to my astonishment, it worked. Whenever I was struggling with something after that, I would pray. And it has continued to work, sometimes I don't get an answer, but most of the time I do. And it's very obvious too.

One good example, there was a time when I wasn't getting an answer, and I started to question if God was really out there. So I prayed again, and I said if you're out there, reveal yourself to me, I need to know you're there. Now my father was always particularly reserved when it came to being Christian, he didn't really talk about God that much. But the next morning after I did this prayer, my dad was saying something that happened to a family member. And at the end he said, "Just remember, you can always trust God to get you through things." And I'll never forget that, because it hit me so hard that this was my hint.

You can choose not to believe it, but I know for a fact that He's out there. It's good to hear that you're discovering your faith, it can do great things if you let it.

 

What exactly does this prove? You can't believe in something that you don't even know exists. And not only that, how can you definitively say that God would not reveal Himself to someone in a position of absolute ignorance to His existence? You couldn't, because you haven't personally been in that situation.

 

Well done! You've answered your own question! You are now my new favorite person on this site. Sorry @MuscularSherlockHolmes

 

And you've successfully dodged mine. The fact still remains, can you prove God wouldn't have revealed Himself to a person that is unaware of his existence?

 

Well he supposedly should be able to do that, according to Christianity. But I'm unaware of his existence and he has chosen not to reveal himself to me, even though I want to learn the truth. Which means I am going to hell for no good reason. The point I was trying to make earlier is that most Christians are Christians because someone raised them under this belief - you said it yourself. You even admitted that you would probably be a Muslim if you were born in the middle East.