Convert from Atheism

[seremina]

There are many wonderful posts on Protestants converting to the true faith,so I thought I would start my First thread on Atheists converting.

My conversion was so fast and head spinning I almost “Lost It” One day, and thank you Holy Spirit for not giving up on me, I was in an emotional dump and I looked out my window at the tree’s…YEP TREES I have 4 different kinds in my back yard. Then it Hit me like a “Ton of Bricks”,If we “crawled out of the primordial oooze as a single celled organism” how do we explain the vast difference in life on our planet? Only took me 40 years to ask that question. THERE IS A GOD!!! What an awesome revelation to me.

That was the easy part,now that I knew in my brain that God existed, where in the world was I suppose to “Find” Him and learn more about Him. And that is when I went on my search.

I Googled and found a TON of Protestant faiths and read pert near every one of them. Red flag after Red flag went up. They agreed on the Trinity (still a confusing concept for me) but differed on many key points. I reasoned that if there is only ONE God (still trying to understand the Trinity ) how could there be so many different beliefs in what He teaches, One God One Truth. But that is not what I found.

The last faith I read about, (yep you guessed it, Catholic ) really caught my attention. I praise God for leading me to the faithfull sites and not the hatefilled Jack Chick type sites. Long story short,the more I studied the more I realized that THIS is the True Church established by Jesus Chirst Himself.

That was 3 years ago. Today I am a Sacrastin and Altar Server and Youth Minister and have worked with my DRE in starting a Bible Study program at our parish.

I know I know…“You Converts”

I know this is the “Readers Digest” version of my conversion story but its enough to give you a very brief insight into my conversion and I am very interested in knowing if there are others like me who were once Atheists who found our Lord.

God’s Blessings to you all

**Luv4Mary, welcome. I’m so happy you came to the Church. To go from Atheism to Catholicism is a huge step. Congratulations. I share in all your joys and I hope to share in all your sorrows.

The way you came to God sounds like a miracle of the Holy Spirit. The Mysterious Click. I get to Jesus through Mary as well. If you have any questions, I’m here for you. If I don’t know the answer, I’ll do what I can to get it or refer you.

And please, gab all you want! Ranting happily can be more fun than seriously telling.
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[ribozyme]

Mersenne

Deism is almost identical to athiesm.

This is utterly absurd. Go back to your dictionary young man.

Deism comes from the Latin root Deus, which means God. A Deist believes in knowing God through reason. Some deists, certainly not all, believe(d) that God had lost touch with Creation. They never said God does not exist.

It’s a no-brainer.

No, most deists are diametrically opposed to the existence of a personal God.

Deism relies on reason, theism relies on dogmatism.

 

[Mersenne]

Mersenne

Deism is almost identical to athiesm.

This is utterly absurd. Go back to your dictionary young man.

Deism comes from the Latin root Deus, which means God. A Deist believes in knowing God through reason. Some deists, certainly not all, believe(d) that God had lost touch with Creation. They never said God does not exist.

And I never said Diests believe god does not exist, but I guess when you have no real arguement putting words in other people’s mouths over and over and over again is about as good as you can do, eh? The differences between “not interacting with the world” and not existing are rather small.

But please, continue to pull out ridiculous logical fallacies and then talk down to me. Can you actually adress the point I made or are you just going to keep pulling out emotional appeals and urban legends like “Darwin recanted on his death bed”?

 

[Aureole]

The tone of this thread has sank into anger and I am saddened by that. I only wanted to share some of my story of how God never gave up on me and brought me home to HIS Church.

I make the special request that any who wish to post on this thread do so with Love and Respect.

Alas, it seems no one wants to listen to this wisdom.