God appears to you and

[tabycat]

Throw Holy Water at it.

:coffeeread::Or some nice salty sea water! Would not waste the coffee by throwing that.

 

[JRKH]

Some very well though out answers. This question isn’t realy about Islam. It’s just the religion that I chose to use because of it’s beleif in the same god as Christians. The point of the question is if a person would convert to another religion if they had a religious experience, or if they woul just try to explain it away as demonic activity or hallucination.

Well I hope that you do not try to draw too broad a conclusion from the responses from this very specific scenario…

And by the way - I am Catholic (returned and practicing) partly because of two religious experiences.

Peace
James

 

[Della]

Religious experiences, such as you describe, Hunter, if real, are meant to prod us into seeking the thruth and then stopping once we’ve found it.

I know this because I had at least two experiences of the general kind you describe. I didn’t drop everything and run out and convert (to the Catholic faith) at that time. Rather, they made me think and opened my heart and mind to realities I had not considered or thought I’d rejected.

God works in mysterious ways, but he expects us to embrace the truth, not run here and there looking for experiences. One ends up running in circles that way.

 

[Abba]

Ok, let’s say you are walking down the beach one day and suddenly there is a brilliant flash of light. There standing infront of you is God, just as you alwase pictured him. He tells you how proud he is of you for being such a devoted follower of him and he loves you very much, there’s just one problem. He hands you a small package, you open it, and inside is a Koran!!! Then wooosh he and the book are gone.

What would you do? Convert to Islam? Try to explain it away? What?

Hello Hunter24,

Now that’s what I call a loaded question and full of erroneous assumptions. Truly, truly, the man who said and I paraphrase: those who leave the Catholic Church do so because they do not know their faith; spoke true words. In your question you demonstrate the veracity of this statement. It may have been Bishop Sheen who I heard make that statement. I hope someone would post who it was that said such true words.

It’s extraordinary that people can go through 12 years of studies in a Catholic institution and come out knowing so little about their faith. No wonder you joined Wicca. How disappointing that the instructors and deans did not assure that their curriculum covered essential and important aspects of the faith that would assure a good grounding.

I hope and pray that you stick around CAF and learn a little about yours and our faith. I hope that you really take it upon yourself to learn the Catholic faith - you will never regret it. Your heart will finally find that for which it has been longing.

 

[Hunter24]

Hello Hunter24,

Now that’s what I call a loaded question and full of erroneous assumptions. Truly, truly, the man who said and I paraphrase: those who leave the Catholic Church do so because they do not know their faith; spoke true words. In your question you demonstrate the veracity of this statement. It may have been Bishop Sheen who I heard make that statement. I hope someone would post who it was that said such true words.

It’s extraordinary that people can go through 12 years of studies in a Catholic institution and come out knowing so little about their faith. No wonder you joined Wicca. How disappointing that the instructors and deans did not assure that their curriculum covered essential and important aspects of the faith that would assure a good grounding.

I hope and pray that you stick around CAF and learn a little about yours and our faith. I hope that you really take it upon yourself to learn the Catholic faith - you will never regret it. Your heart will finally find that for which it has been longing.

Lol it was just a hypothetical question. I know quite a bit about Catholicism from my schooling. I didn’t leave because i didn’t know it, I left because I didn’t beleave it. And honestly my own religion has nothing to do with this question. How are there “erroneous assumptions” here? Its a hypothetical, a “what if?”.

 

[Charlie_Zeaiter]

Ok, let’s say you are walking down the beach one day and suddenly there is a brilliant flash of light. There standing infront of you is God, just as you alwase pictured him. He tells you how proud he is of you for being such a devoted follower of him and he loves you very much, there’s just one problem. He hands you a small package, you open it, and inside is a Koran!!! Then wooosh he and the book are gone.

What would you do? Convert to Islam? Try to explain it away? What?

God has already revealed himself through something that nobody else can do; Fulfilled prophecy. You need to be above time to write prophecy.

Since your story doesn’t fulfill prophecy, and since the Koran contradicts my faith, I’d have to say that the brilliant flash of light was not of God but of the enemy.

 

[Marc_Anthony]

Ok, let’s say you are walking down the beach one day and suddenly there is a brilliant flash of light. There standing infront of you is God, just as you alwase pictured him. He tells you how proud he is of you for being such a devoted follower of him and he loves you very much, there’s just one problem. He hands you a small package, you open it, and inside is a Koran!!! Then wooosh he and the book are gone.

What would you do? Convert to Islam? Try to explain it away? What?

Good question.

First I’d consult a Priest. Then, unless advised otherwise, I’d read the Koran. I’m planning on doing that eventually anyway and I wonder why I haven’t done that yet, actually…but off topic.

Besides that, I’d ABSOLUTELY stay Catholic, since God is thanking me for being such a devoted follower of Him. I became a devoted follower through the Catholic Church, not Islam. Why would I convert? God has given me no instructions to do so, and apparently I’m not doing anything very problematic. In fact, I’m apparently doing the right thing!

Therefore I’ll continue what I was doing before; why mess up a good thing?

 

[Blue_Horizon]

Some very well though out answers. This question isn’t realy about Islam. It’s just the religion that I chose to use because of it’s beleif in the same god as Christians. The point of the question is if a person would convert to another religion if they had a religiouse experience, or if they woul just try to explain it away as demonic activity or hallucination.

Christianity is based on more than an internal “religious experience” whatever the heck that means.

What exactly is the point of your question for you? The either/or possibilities enumerated are a bit silly - much like “have you stopped beating your wife yet.” To answer is to confirm you in erroneous thinking re christianity apriori.

 

[patrick457]

Ok, let’s say you are walking down the beach one day and suddenly there is a brilliant flash of light. There standing infront of you is God, just as you alwase pictured him. He tells you how proud he is of you for being such a devoted follower of him and he loves you very much, there’s just one problem. He hands you a small package, you open it, and inside is a Koran!!! Then wooosh he and the book are gone.

What would you do? Convert to Islam? Try to explain it away? What?

I’d get myself a doctor first.