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!

Nobody's view is more important.

Absolutely sweet FA

I've had a fair few signs from God.

One day I actually said I was struggling to accept Jesus as my personal saviour and I could do with some help on accepting it but I knew it was an unworthy request so I'd just keep plodding along doubtful. Next thing a man I sat down next to on the tram asks me if I "knew what this was" dangling a miraculous medal at me on a wrist strap that said "fuck cancer". He did say "ignore the wrist strap it's not very nice". He had been begging on the streets homeless and someone had thrown the medal in his begging bowl. He said that since he'd been given the medal he'd had luck like you wouldn't believe. Someone gave him a brand new pair of shoes and he'd managed to get a job and a place to stay. He said he didn't believe in that stuff but.... then he looked so confused, like it did seem to be a divine intervention. He said his mum had died of cancer and she was Catholic. Then he crossed himself. He asked if i believed in God.... and I said yes! And I do.

That's not actually the craziest thing that happened as I once woke up quoting a bible reference at a time when I barely knew the bible. I sort of spat the word out like it wasn't coming from me then my own thought was "that's a book of the bible", then I thought "there's numbers" and two numbers just popped out but they didn't come from me. Hard to explain. Looked up the reference and it said

It is not our ancestors who are in a relationship with God but we who are now alive.

There's more but it all gets personal.

@AndThereSheGoes "All I kniw is that St Anthony finds stuff. He's really, really good at it too"

So long as you pick the right St Anthony!
Incidentally, a nun said to me when I was a child "Stop looking and say a prayer to St Anthony. It'll give you a chance to remember where you put it."

Coincidence , because if it was god then it could of healed everyone

Well quite. How are the other equally desperate people at the Catholic healing mass meant to feel knowing they were not picked by God for healing but the person they stood next to was? How are their families meant to feel? Does that not strike you as cruel?

an atheist might question why religious doctrines should influence laws regarding reproductive rights, gender equality, or scientific education. From this perspective, religious beliefs do not exist in a vacuum, and therefore, the principle of “live and let live” becomes untenable when those beliefs shape broader societal structures.

God sold my house for me.

Which was nice.

[viewer left after viewing, returned shortly after to say she'd had a "message from god" and had to make an offer]

This thread is being inundated with atheists. I'd love to hear other believers experiences. I've had loads. I do believe in a good, personally interested God. The fact that the world is a broken place full of evil does not make me think God should fix it all right now. All the naysayers don't know for certain that beyond this life isn't something better. Just a narrow view that pain and suffering must equal bad. This from a bunch of mainly mothers who personally experienced a lot of pain and suffering and gave birth to the children they love with all their heart.

I’m trying to be respectful and not derail! This question comes from a place of curiosity rather than scorn.

Can I just ask why the believers on this thread think God has done the ‘crazy things’ they mention without any evidence that there is even a God, rather than accept real, tangible scientific evidence to explain them?

Full disclosure, I am an atheist but I studied Philosophy and Religion at A Level so have a genuine interest in the topic and respect other people’s right to believe whatever they choose. I just still can never wrap my head around the WHY.

I love Tim Minchins song about the omnipotent ophthalmologist. Says about the same thing as the majority of this thread.

God can now add orthopaedic estate agent to the list of his miraculous endeavours.

So what happens on the days when god tells someone he's going to start growing limbs again, and there is nobody present with one limb shorter than the other?

Does some poor soul who previously had limbs of equal lengths end up going home with a discrepancy?

Hey!

This is a really good question and I really appreciate being able to talk about it.

To be honest for me I’ve also seen crazy things in life that I wouldn’t automatically say was God’s intervention. When I’ve “known” it’s God a lot of it has been down to timing - for example when I was having stomach issues and the pain disappeared the instant someone prayed for me, and also seeing people be healed in the instant I’ve prayed for them.

Also, and I don’t know if this will make sense unless you’ve lived it, I have a gut feeling of God’s presence around me. I don’t always have it and I’ve been through some really awful hard times in life that have made me question God and what I believe, but the fact is when I’ve prayed and read my Bible, and understood that Jesus is with me, I just know. 😂 I know that unhelpful because it’s not scientific or measurable, but I’m just sharing my lived experience. And lived experience from someone who has been through some really hideous stuff, but I know deep down God is with me.

someone upthread summed it up so much better than me, but basically the existence of God doesn’t eliminate the existence of bad.

I’ve now waffled and no idea if I’ve actually answered your question 🤣

I honestly find it rather confusing. On the one hand, I struggle to see how to reconcile an omniscient omnipotent good god with all the evil in the world. I recognise that quite a bit of that evil is manmade, so could be put down to respect for free will and autonomy of mankind, but some of it isn't, and still happens to innocents. On the other hand I have personally witnessed healings that I cannot scientifically explain. But I do not understand why one child/baby was healed, and another was not. Though both are innocents and dearly loved. Honestly, it makes my head hurt. But I have witnessed too much to believe that science has all the answers, even if in some ways I would consider that comforting to be able to believe.

I've figured it out way back, if God is all powerful, He cannot be all good. And if He's all good then He cannot be all powerful. - Lex Luthor

Can those people who believe God has performed miracles on their friends and family. Healed cancers, bad backs, ensured children pulled through surgery etc etc, explain why those people were healed and not other people please?

The fact that the world is a broken place full of evil does not make me think God should fix it all right now
Why not? If it was your child terrified and lost and suffering I am pretty sure you would want God to fix it now. Why the pick and choose approach.

Just a narrow view that pain and suffering must equal bad.
Yes. I unashamedly think that the pain and suffering of the holocaust was bad, of the abducted Yazidi women, of the girls abducted by Boko Haram, of all the families of the ‘disappeared’, of dementia, of that condition where eyelids grow inwards so your eyeball is constantly scraped and damaged with every blink, of death due to birth injuries, of all those who get so constipated shit comes back out of their mouth and they eventually die from their bowel perforating, of slavery. I unashamedly think all that suffering, and much much more, equals bad.
Please explain your ‘broader’ view which shows I am wrong in that?

This from a bunch of mainly mothers who personally experienced a lot of pain and suffering and gave birth to the children they love with all their heart
Well in reality, it’s becoming a Mother which destroyed my ability to conceive of God as a loving Father, as I would never permit my children to suffer what God allows, and not just allows but consciously created.

I asked similar earlier and my post was removed which I’m really pissed off about as it didn’t break any talk guidelines. Apparently we’re not allowed to question these things 🙄