quote]If that is true, out of all the billions of Christians on earth, how come none of them have been able to demonstrate any of these supernatural experiences under controlled observations? Skeptic James Randi has had a $10,000,000.00 challenge for anybody who can demonstrate anything outside the laws of nature under controlled observations, and thus far nobody has claimed the money; not even Christians.
A baby is in a controled environment. God orders the process that takes nine months. The life force creating the baby in the womb is supernatural. Babies don't create themselves, decipher genetic codes, create amino acids and proteins and complex systems within systems and nine months later poof, here I am. Nor do the cells organize themselves. You don't have to look in the past to have proof of God. Look at the design in nature and the universe.
Prophecies weren't contrived.
quote] I dont think anybody has ever found God because he doesnt exist. What they found was an emotion experience, or a delusional trick of the mind that they believe is God.Im not looking for God anymore, I was just explaining to some of the other posters why I gave up on God years ago so you can quit trying to convert me; I know better.
God finds us, when He calls, we hear his voice, his sheep know him. You see, you are either curious or you just want to mock and dismantle our beliefs. It's a little of both ah? The truth is, some of the truth in the Bible has penetrated and you know it's right and can't let it go. You are struggling though.
quote]I guess you can say when I put it in Gods hands, because God didnt do anything, I used my effort to take a more critical look at what I had been taught and I allowed myself to see what others were doing and I considered the possibility that what I was taught was wrong.
You are wrong. Sometimes He doesn't jump through the hoops that man wants him too. God has been knocking on your door, you haven't opened it. You are trying to intellectualize faith and God.
quote]Eventually I quit going to church all together and then I began to consider myself agnostic; it took many years for me to get comfortable with the term Atheist. But none of this stuff happened over night; it took me nearly 10 years for me to go from putting it into Gods hands to calling myself a non-believer.