What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen God do?

[bluejellybelly]

If you’re a Christian, like a miracle or breakthrough, or even maybe someone encouraged you with exactly what you needed to hear and you know it was God… all those sorts of things… I wanna hear!

I think your first sentence is subjective, but yes, people need people too. Definitely. However, people are fallible. They are sometimes flaky or neglectful towards people they purport to care about, people sometimes just stop loving their romantic partner, and judging by a lot of MN threads people are very quick to cut off their friends for small slights these days. The constancy of support and love from humans is often just not there because most people put themselves first (not necessarily saying that's a bad thing) and even when 'perfect' love happens it's eventually going to end with the death of one or both people. Human love is fragile and time-defined, in a nutshell.

Thanks for your reply @ruethewhirl Why do you feel that this unfailing, unbreakable love is necessary? If someone feels like they get these same feelings from people such as parents, partners, children, friends, do you think someone is less likely to seek this from a higher being? As a non religious person, I feel that I am wholly fulfilled through the love of these people I have. Thanks again for your reply, happy to hear from others why they feel they need this ‘love’ from god.

@CyclingAddict "I know a Jehovah’s Witness..she works in a charity shop and her God has asked her not to TOUCH anything Christmassy"

Not surprising-although the not touching is quite extreme. Jehova's Witnesses don't celebrate Christmas.

I think @CyclingAddict gets that, it was just in response to the original question about the craziest thing people ‘had seen God do’. And it conjures up visions of this woman freezing in divinely-mandated horror when some innocent customer tries to get her to bag a Christmas tree bauble she’s just bought…

@KindOf " And it conjures up visions of this woman freezing in divinely-mandated horror when some innocent customer tries to get her to bag a Christmas tree bauble she’s just bought…"🤣

There were JWs in my DD's class in Primary. The teachers were very inventive in finding ways for them not to miss out on various traditional Judao-Christian based treats...

@samanthabrickthe point is to get to know god better.

This is quite an old thread but I will reply.

I have seen God do some good things in my life.

First of all he gave me the promised comforter/advocate the gift of the Holy Spirit which has helped me get through life. Jesus promised to give his believers this gift in John 14 and it proved to be that comforter in my life and it is a gift of God.

Also, in around April 2024 I got healing for a nervous condition without asking at church by taking the Sacraments and I knew that I had got healing without even yet living the drive of the church that day. I felt different. The ailments was troubling before in my nervous system and it never appeared again. I didn't pray for it either. It was freely given to me.

In 1990 to I observed a young child who couldn't walk get a miracle at church to be able to walk.

After reading the Epstein files and seeing the pictures of what they did to those girls and children and babies and are prob still doing, there is no god, just a load of controlling males profiting off “gods will”. We’ve seen the patterns, I’m 60 so had enough of that nonsense, sorry to break it to you if your faith helps you feel better xx

There are plenty of people who do wonderful things from a position of non-belief. God could, if he wanted, heal the sick and feed the hungry himself.

Set up a system where the only way to save his apex creation (v2.0) was to see his son tortured and killed!

He ended up wiping out the first try (apart from 8) in a flood.

Can anyone explain this to me?

That flood story is hugely sanitised in most tellings.

The animals went in two by two, hurrah, hurrah, and sailed off past the floating corpses & the people & animals screaming in terror as they struggled to keep their heads above water & to save their children.

I wonder if any of the Noah family had survivors’ guilt or PTSD?