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

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bluejellybelly · 04/10/2024 00:12

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!

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menopausalfart · 04/10/2024 13:51

If all this suffering is a part of God's almighty plan, then I don't think I like them very much.

FoxtrotOscarKindaDay · 04/10/2024 13:57

ruethewhirl · 04/10/2024 13:40

I don't get why atheists have to come on to threads like these and try to spoil them. I'm not sure why atheists are even interested in the religion board, but in particular why click on a thread about God if you don't believe in God. Why can't people just live and let live?

Only one person on here has said they aren't religious. No one has said they are an atheist.

The thread said God... didn't say which one.

whiskeyarmadillo · 04/10/2024 13:58

ruethewhirl · 04/10/2024 13:40

I don't get why atheists have to come on to threads like these and try to spoil them. I'm not sure why atheists are even interested in the religion board, but in particular why click on a thread about God if you don't believe in God. Why can't people just live and let live?

God made atheists too. That's pretty crazy.

zeitweilig · 04/10/2024 13:58

ruethewhirl · 04/10/2024 13:40

I don't get why atheists have to come on to threads like these and try to spoil them. I'm not sure why atheists are even interested in the religion board, but in particular why click on a thread about God if you don't believe in God. Why can't people just live and let live?

The thread appears in Actuve Discussions, however if reality spoils something then you should probably question that something.

Idratherbepaddleboarding · 04/10/2024 13:59

bluejellybelly · 04/10/2024 13:48

That is horrendous and I don’t believe that was God’s will. I’m so sorry for your loss.

Like I said up thread I’m sharing my experience but not saying I have all the answers.

I hope to goodness they didn’t tell you it was God’s will. 💐

But if “God” wants the credit for healing people, he also needs to take the rap for not healing people. “He” (or his supporters) can’t have it both ways!

CurlewKate · 04/10/2024 14:02

@TheGoddessFreyja "Walking home from work and had been to the shops and had 2 large bags of shopping, stopped to put them down for a few seconds and check my phone and carried on walking and a car smashed into the front of a cafe right infront of me. "

What about the guardian angels who should have been protecting the people in the cafe and the people in the car?

HornyHornersPinger · 04/10/2024 14:04

God?? You seriously 'believe' there's a God up there watching over us? So, WHERE WAS HE when Star Hobson, Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Baby P and the MANY other totally innocent children died horrible deaths from abuse, neglect and assaults? What's he up to when babies get raped??!!
There is NO God, NO heaven and if there is a hell then it is here on earth!

zeitweilig · 04/10/2024 14:08

It's quite egotistical to think a god is somehow treating you better. 🫣

jackstini · 04/10/2024 14:22

I know if 2

An inoperable brain tumour which moved location, meaning it could be operated on

Friend had been given 6-24 months, 3 specialists agreed it was terminal and life insurance paid out

Lots of praying for a miracle. Next appointment the consultant had a nice shock!

2 ops down and 12 years later - she's still here

One from over 30 years ago. Teen friend was declared brain dead and family were called in to hospital to say goodbye. They asked for a miracle prayer (no mobile phones then, land line prayer chain spread the request)

They arrived to find him sitting up in bed eating

I don't pretend to understand miracles, same as I don't understand how some human beings can choose to do such evil things

But don't deny they sometimes happen and I appreciate where they have changed lives

bluejellybelly · 04/10/2024 14:23

zeitweilig · 04/10/2024 14:08

It's quite egotistical to think a god is somehow treating you better. 🫣

Is that what I said? 😂 I literally just said I’m sharing my first hand experience and it doesn’t answer all of the questions for me.

At no point did I say “ive seen miracles and therefore no bad shit has ever happened to me” 😂🙄 I was just sharing what I have seen and experienced, I didn’t realise that meant I’ve had an easy pain free life? I don’t think God favours anyone, that’s not what I said.

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bluejellybelly · 04/10/2024 14:24

jackstini · 04/10/2024 14:22

I know if 2

An inoperable brain tumour which moved location, meaning it could be operated on

Friend had been given 6-24 months, 3 specialists agreed it was terminal and life insurance paid out

Lots of praying for a miracle. Next appointment the consultant had a nice shock!

2 ops down and 12 years later - she's still here

One from over 30 years ago. Teen friend was declared brain dead and family were called in to hospital to say goodbye. They asked for a miracle prayer (no mobile phones then, land line prayer chain spread the request)

They arrived to find him sitting up in bed eating

I don't pretend to understand miracles, same as I don't understand how some human beings can choose to do such evil things

But don't deny they sometimes happen and I appreciate where they have changed lives

Amazing!!

and thank you for your note at the end, that’s exactly how I feel

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zeitweilig · 04/10/2024 14:27

bluejellybelly · 04/10/2024 14:23

Is that what I said? 😂 I literally just said I’m sharing my first hand experience and it doesn’t answer all of the questions for me.

At no point did I say “ive seen miracles and therefore no bad shit has ever happened to me” 😂🙄 I was just sharing what I have seen and experienced, I didn’t realise that meant I’ve had an easy pain free life? I don’t think God favours anyone, that’s not what I said.

Did I specifically refer to you?
Did I suggest you said only good things happened in your life?
I didn't say you said that any god favours any person, however if they only perform certain miracles for certain people it follows that they might just favour certain people. 😵‍💫

DameKatyDenisesClagnuts · 04/10/2024 14:28

jackstini · 04/10/2024 14:22

I know if 2

An inoperable brain tumour which moved location, meaning it could be operated on

Friend had been given 6-24 months, 3 specialists agreed it was terminal and life insurance paid out

Lots of praying for a miracle. Next appointment the consultant had a nice shock!

2 ops down and 12 years later - she's still here

One from over 30 years ago. Teen friend was declared brain dead and family were called in to hospital to say goodbye. They asked for a miracle prayer (no mobile phones then, land line prayer chain spread the request)

They arrived to find him sitting up in bed eating

I don't pretend to understand miracles, same as I don't understand how some human beings can choose to do such evil things

But don't deny they sometimes happen and I appreciate where they have changed lives

Why did god move the brain tumour and not just cure it?

zeitweilig · 04/10/2024 14:29

jackstini · 04/10/2024 14:22

I know if 2

An inoperable brain tumour which moved location, meaning it could be operated on

Friend had been given 6-24 months, 3 specialists agreed it was terminal and life insurance paid out

Lots of praying for a miracle. Next appointment the consultant had a nice shock!

2 ops down and 12 years later - she's still here

One from over 30 years ago. Teen friend was declared brain dead and family were called in to hospital to say goodbye. They asked for a miracle prayer (no mobile phones then, land line prayer chain spread the request)

They arrived to find him sitting up in bed eating

I don't pretend to understand miracles, same as I don't understand how some human beings can choose to do such evil things

But don't deny they sometimes happen and I appreciate where they have changed lives

I'm glad of the positive outcomes, we should all celebrate them.
I don't think it's down to any gods though.

jackstini · 04/10/2024 14:41

@DameKatyDenisesClagnuts - I have absolutely no idea! Just very grateful

TyrannasaurusJex · 04/10/2024 15:14

Somehow convincing people that he a) exists and b) is in anyway 'benevolent' and not a psychotic, narcissistic sadist

Ihopeithinkiknow · 04/10/2024 15:20

@bluejellybelly yeah they did say it was gods will lol but that honestly didn't bother me because they aren't really known for thinking about things outside of their own beliefs and they just give everything to god to deal with. If that's how they want to live their lives then fine but for me I just don't get that kind of thinking. I'm completely fine with the fact that there is no afterlife and we don't get to meet up with our loved ones in heaven, they on the other hand don't really seem to care about this life in any meaningful way because to them it's a practice run. I look at them and I actually feel sorry for them because it's such a waste but yet they look at me as if I'm the stupid one for believing in actual facts and science.

I would love nothing more than to be with my son again because he was the light of my life so I completely get why some people do believe in god because who wouldn't want that perfect ending where everyone lives happily ever after in heaven. Believing it doesn't make it true though and I do find the whole god thing absurd if I'm being honest

DiscoinFrisco · 04/10/2024 15:21

bluejellybelly · 04/10/2024 13:17

If not angry, definitely frustrated!

Just disagreeing. Not angry or frustrated.
Have a great day.

MumChp · 04/10/2024 15:22

Create this world.

workplaceshenanigans · 04/10/2024 15:23

OldTinHat · 04/10/2024 11:04

I'm not religious and don't believe in an 'almighty' judging us all. Interestingly, my MH nurse suggested I volunteer at a local church. I popped in last night to say hello, told the minister that I didn't believe. He said he didn't, either!

This is far more common than you might think!

nocoolnamesleft · 04/10/2024 15:47

When I was a child, my mother had severe pneumonia. She was in hospital for weeks. Chest drains and everything. But she wasn't improving, and imaging showed a large collection of pus too far in for the drains to reach. They arranged for her to be transferred to a bigger hospital for chest surgery the next day. But they let her have overnight leave as she was so depressed. That evening, the parish priest came round with the prayer group and prayed over her. Next day she went to the big hospital, they repeated the imaging that had only been done the day before, and the pus collection had gone. Gradually but steadily got better from there.

Same priest some years later... I was a very junior doctor, visiting my parents for the weekend, and went to mass with them. A frail little old lady passed out in her seat. Someone was calling for an ambulance, and I was opening her airway and checking for a pulse. The pulse was irregular and erratic. The priest anointed her forehead and at precisely that moment her pulse normalised. And then she came round.

I don't think I can really tell the ones about my actual patients, because they may be too identifiable, but there have been a number of instances where medical science wasn't cutting it, but silently asking St Jude to intervene has been the point where things turned round,

I generally think of myself as a rational scientific type, but just sometimes there is more to heaven and earth than is dreamt of in my philosophy.

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 04/10/2024 15:55

Nobody has ever seen any god do anything. If they had, there might be proof that at least one god existed, but there isn't.

ruethewhirl · 04/10/2024 16:05

FoxtrotOscarKindaDay · 04/10/2024 13:57

Only one person on here has said they aren't religious. No one has said they are an atheist.

The thread said God... didn't say which one.

I think you can absolutely tell that some on here are atheists wanting to be goady, without them needing to state explicitly that they are.

ruethewhirl · 04/10/2024 16:08

zeitweilig · 04/10/2024 13:58

The thread appears in Actuve Discussions, however if reality spoils something then you should probably question that something.

The fact that it appears in Active Discussions is irrelevant. Yes it will get seen more for that reason, but the forum title is Philosophy/Religion, not Have a Pop at Other People's Belief Systems. If people really want to do that, there's nothing to stop them starting their own thread, but it's got nothing to do with what OP is asking.

LastTrainEast · 04/10/2024 16:11

ruethewhirl · 04/10/2024 13:40

I don't get why atheists have to come on to threads like these and try to spoil them. I'm not sure why atheists are even interested in the religion board, but in particular why click on a thread about God if you don't believe in God. Why can't people just live and let live?

If you were to read your bible then you would know why.

Atheists are often those who did read it. While most believers are content with a nativity play and a hallmark movie and if you suggest reading it they get a list of inspiring verses and read that.

But if you read the actual words in that book and the instructions from 'god' starting from page 1 you'd get why some are horrified that it's suggested as a basis for morality and taught to children.

I won't list the worst ones this time because this is a light-hearted thread and I don't want to put anyone off their supper.

Personally I was enjoying the 'grew the leg back' ones and the 'parking spaces' help. I've often seen Christians claim that on here and it's hilarious (though they are serious). We need more of those.