I've Been Praying Alot Lately

[mizpeh]

Originally Posted by Timmy

Amazing story! Very interesting. I have not heard of or experienced anything like that, before.

Seems odd, though, that he would think of this, when it was over (that reminds me, I need to get back into my exercise program!), as a test or a lesson of some kind from God. Even during his time as an "atheist", he prayed and pleaded with God. And if the lesson he had to learn was that he couldn't have faith unless God gave it to him, what does that say about people who don't have faith? To me, it says either God chooses not to bestow faith upon them (certain ones, as He sees fit -- His ways are not our ways, etc.), or they, for whatever reason, choose to say "No, thanks". There doesn't seem to be any allowance for us working out for ourselves what to believe. Weird.

Now, I'm heading over to the treadmill. I'll let you know if the extra blood flow triggers a return to faith.

He's a Calvinist...so he fit the explanation of his loss of faith into his belief structure.

Personally, I think it was a lying spirit of some sort...a literal demonic spirit. After I had become a Christian and had experiences with God that convinced me that He was real and therefore the Bible was true, I constantly had to battle thoughts of unbelief. The same thoughts that had held me in blindness and hostage to atheism for years. I had to keep reminding myself of the things that God had done in showing himself to be real to me.

It may have been a test allowed by God. Afterall, everyone's faith is tested. But I think we've talked about this before in another thread.