how do you describe god has been calling you as? i'm born into a strict christian family and if anything i've rationalised myself into being an atheist. Been reading this forum for a few years and understand it has morphed into some sort of a christian forum now. i'm just wondering what changes someone to go back to god. is it old age and the fear of death or the threat of eternal hell.
Pascal's Wager is not the justification for Christian faith, but it is the justification for putting some serious effort into examining these matters. But speaking as somebody born and raised as an atheist with an antipathy toward religion, I can tell you that the fear of death and threat of eternal hell never entered my mind in the process of becoming a Christian. Rather, my life experience was slowly accumulating for me the impression that there had to be a deity of some sort. There was too much purpose, too much intentionality to life for me to dismiss as mere probability. It was kind of an inescapable conclusion for me, because little things kept adding up toward that conclusion, but it wasn't until later that some really freakish things happened in series in connection with a Christian friend who initially hated my guts and wanted nothing to do with me, it was like I was getting a big push from the Christian God in some direction.
I think that's how I'd describe being called by God. The Bible describes it as the sheep knowing the voice of their shepherd. I wouldn't have believed it if I tried to explain it to my former atheist self.
In many ways, it's like the path to becoming red-pilled. You can shove the red pill down a normie's throat all you want, he'll just keep vomiting it back up and rejecting it no matter how much statistics, logic, math you throw at him. You can quote 13% all you want, you can quote Wikipedia Early Life entries all you want, point out all the logical conundrums of feminism, but it's not going to make a dent in that person's psyche. He has to fully experience the futility of the blue pill life. He has to fail, fail, fail, fail with women over and over before his mind becomes open to the kind of questions that the red pill can answer. Or he has to experience diversity full force, with blunt trauma, before he starts wondering if there's more to the story than he believes. He has to experience the failure of the blue pill before he can begin to swallow the red pill.
Like
@Heismightytosave says, it's about seeing yourself as a person that
needs God. There is no one single magic bullet argument that will convince you that God is real. I can't shove that particular pill down your throat. Christians as well as non-Christian theists have tried that for many, many millennia, but yet here we still are, running in circles. I can only ask you to open your ears, and
listen for His voice.