Hi, I'm an Atheist

[ChristianCoffee]

Hi Starfox:

I remember playing that game (that means I am old).

Welcome here: I pray you receive from Him what you are looking for.

In Him,

CC

Romans 8:15-17

[ebed]

You REALLY think that you KNOW that there is No God?
WOW!
I would like to be first to warn you that to true intelectuals a statement like that is tantamount to wearing a big "I Am Stupid" sign on your' back! So at least limit your declarations to "Christian" forums such as the present, where there will probably be at least a few who actually Care about you. I will also be helpfull for you to know that the 2 most targeted groups by Con Artists' are those claiming to be Christians and those Claiming to be Atheists. (forgive my spelling. English is Not one of my best languages!) But Congratulations! This is one of the places you will find help, if that is what you are looking for. This type of Web Site is also one of the "Most Targeted" by Con Artists! Just Quoting the facts. I Pray that you will find THE Truth!!!

#4of10

[meep]

I'm sorry you have been hurt so badly by your parents. I understand why you would want to blame God for this but it is your parents, not God, who has made this mistake. God loves you even if you aren't regularly going to church and will take you back anytime. I hope that your parents feel the same. Hugs!

[Ruminator]

If you are not sufficiently sincere in your atheism, terrible things await you in the after-life...

[JoshuasGal79]

I think my mom had gone to church and dragged me along couple of times. I had religious education and opted out of it in exchange for a philosophies class. Looking back I would say that wherever God was for me I made sure I stepped one step away from Him, but he never stepped away from me lol Like chasing pawns across a chessboard one move at a time. I ran out of moves and was convicted, Check mate!
I lived my life for 30years with a lot of anger inside of me because my parents divorce and I didn't hear from my Dad til I was 20 and even after we talked I didn't want to hear him from the grudge of what the divorce had done to me and my mom. When I was ready to reconcile with him I found he had passed away, and I had so many unanswered questions. I felt so cheated and got angrier. I remeber the time he told me "I love you" on the phone, but I didn't believe it because if he loved me he would've been there!
This is a lie that was planted in me from Satan and that I watered daily. If your physical father doesn't love you how can you father in Heaven?
I was soooo blinded. I had been in lots of establishments and have even done chanting once. Looking back, oh boy was I ignorant then, but even then, God was there.
When I was convicted I finally picked up the bible and started reading, and the words just seemed to open up and what I needed to hear and know popped out. God was slowly opening my eyes and the most comforting verse to me was....He is a father to the fatherless...
We can't chose our family and how they treat us. Jesus even said that he would bring separation in the family.
It is sad that man's "tradition" and church was pushed on you and you were not really "shown the love of God".
I think somehow it took for God to bring a whole bunch of people into my life and many of them were fathers that couldn't see their children because of divorce or problems with the mother and I realized that no father hates his own child it's just our human faults that let us open the door to put a wedge between relationships, like anger hate pride and so on, but love forgiveness and basically everything Jesus preaches mends those relationships, heals wounds past and gives us restoration.
My Dad passed from pancreatic cancer and I am convinced it is also partially due to the sorrow he felt not being able to be in my life and only later did I find the truth of how bad it got to him and how much he missed me, but he had made stupid choices and those were the consequences and we both suffered greatly for it.
I forgave him in my heart after a long while of thinking and God gave me peace in return.
He even did something special for me.
I was a truckdriver at the time, God really was able to "get me alone". I had a moment where I really asked myself this and I wanted to know in my heart if my Dad knew Jesus they way I came to know him now.
One single thought, was enough for God to open His gate and show me His Grace.
The very next day I had a load going to South Carolina to where I had a cousin that knew my Dad, but I hadn't seen him in a long while. He is still an atheist, which that has nothing to do with how I feel about him, I still love him, but I can also see how he struggles with the things that happen around him and how he is tossed in the sea trying to hold on to things in the world. One day he will come around, I pray for it
But anyways. I get to visit him for a day and we are talking about all kinds of things, except God....and out of nowhere he tells me...you know...your Dad came to me once and said he believed in Jesus as his savior and in the forgiveness of sins through him and I told your dad, I don'tknow why you're telling me this, but I don't believe in God....
It was something I needed to hear and it came from the mouth of an atheist soooo...what a sweet message God is very resourceful and having a relationship with him is worth more than anything to me.
I have the confirmation that my Dad is with Jesus, regardless of all the things that happened to us both and him suffering through cancer and dying. He is alive through believing in Jesus. Our body still pays the consequences of our actions, but our spirit and soul is alive in Christ. I don't have to have all the answers, but the answer that changed my life is that MY FATHER LOVES ME AND ALWAYS HAS! both of them
Another thing I learned is...Love is not demanding...it is understanding...and one day we will all understand and that's when he calls us home I dont have to know everything now and something may be true it may be a lie, but the Bible says He will make it all known to you!
Oh and don't get me wrong God truly is the Father of all Fathers , because if i don't listen I get a butt whoopin' too! So I have learned to listen first...it's better for me that way.
Oh also my Cousin's name is Heath...so I thought it was funny there is an atheist Heath91 in here Hey ya cousin! (don't think we're related in that way but who knows)
God showed me a good passage today aswell and it helps me when I try to give a testimony or talk with someone about God.John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 it is written in the prophets:"They will all be taught by God"Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.
I always wonder when people say they need people to get saved, as if we can do the "saving" and if we did the saving then would that be credit to us and not to God?
The only thing I can do is try to listen to God and find what He has me do and sometimes it's the smallest thing and sometimes it's the craziest thing and it's all for His purpose. In a sense He used the whole world and every moment in my life to bring me to repentance and to accept Him and his love. He will draw the people that truly seek Him to himself, I can only say read the Word and talk to Him.
John 4:23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
Standing in a garage doesn't make you a car any more than going to church makes you a christian.
My one friend thought listening to Joel Osteen was enough....sorry Joel will be giving his account to God and can't be speaking for you when you are called.
I read the Bible with her and she shares her "church going experiences " with me.
We are all the body of Christ and we all are the Church and we all serve different purposes at different times as God sees fit.
I love Church and fellowship, but I am responsible to seek the Lord and to work on my relationship with Him and so I can't twist anybody's arm to accept Him, but I can mention Him in whatever I do or where ever I go and someone will over hear and ask me and I can point the way, but I can't make that person walk, but I can lift you up in prayer, like the friends of the paralytic carried him through the opening to Jesus.
God is closer than you think and joining a website and looking is the first step, reading the Word is the next.
When I first started listening to God I could not read the Bible from front to back, so I would look out for license plate numbers or other numbers that would pop out and then look them up. Or when I needed a specific answer I asked and prayed and the book just would "open up" or after browsing through the pages my eyes would cling to a passage.
God made us unique in His Image, He knows what you need before you need it and it's there, but you won't see it unless He opens your eyes.
Satan will use whatever trickery he can to keep us from the Truth, but he can't do it forever and I am forever greatful that God waited 30years for me to come around, but the fun part is, He knew this from creation! He knows everything and He already has His numbers and looking forward and how the Bible ends, we already have VICTORY!!! No we just have to go through this life and manage
Sometimes I wonder if Santa(Satan) sings this song....you better watch out you better not cry, you better not pout I'm telling you why,...Jesus Christ is coming to town!!! Well we know who gets the coals

[turtledove]

Welcome! I grew up in a non-Christian home even though my folks went to church sometimes. Reading and exploring here is a good idea..and also asking questions. Lots of folks here been in your boat and had parents who forced religion on them. It's not that way with God. He faithfully waits on our choices and just that you are here is a great step.

prayers..