Why I left Atheism???
Well as you can see on my profile description, I have officially decided to leave atheism, for a major reason and life changing life event that recently happened to my girlfriend and me. Geist Faust asked me a good question on my profile and I got the idea to make this thread.
I'm not back to Deism, as I once was before.
Reasons: Me and my girlfriend moved into a nice looking remodeled apartment, it's old but good looking (was built in 1850 as many other old Pennsylvania houses). Well not to make the autobiography too long, everything was fun and normal until a certain point in time.
1st 2 mouths: I was still an atheist; rebellious to the own Christian/theistic believes I was raised to in my family. I didn’t even wanted visit the church my mom goes to that much; it was just about “reality” and me. We where living life as if anything that matters was just living the now and not caring about what's beyond this physical realm. Sometimes when we woke up in the morning we would find the doors in the bathroom closed, when we never even moved them, but we ignored it.
3rd mouth: This is when everything got creepy, the doors where closing more often, sounds where heard everywhere all trough the house, as if someone (or something) was in it to make us scared. One night, while my girlfriend was at the kitchen, she heard the sink shake very hard while a loud noise (like a growl) was coming from it ( it wasn't an earthquake or a car, as it was just concentrated on the kitchen's sink). She calls my name urgently but with a soft and scared tone "Sebastian", I then walk urgently into the kitchen and the noise and shaking stops as if nothing happened.
The other times, I remember hearing noises all over the house, she did as well. Sometimes when she was alone she could feel something following her footsteps, she describes as the hair in her skin stud up scared.
Then, it was my turn, one night I stud doing classwork on my bed, when I heard a strange noise next to me, it got very cold on the room , I told the being or spirit "leave me alone", "who are you "? then that's when the doors in the bathroom closed by themselves very loud! I was very fringed as it never happened to me before and I never really believed in ghosts and bad spirits.
That's when I felt that something was in me, I think it was the spirit, the bad one. I became very angry and rude, I couldn't control it well sort of, my girlfriend asked, "What's wrong? ". Then it just when away after a few minutes..
After that day, while I was at work, my girlfriend was moving things around in the kitchen (as any women would do, they like change ). For some weird and unknown reason the spirit seemed to love the fridge or its energy since it made a strange sound at times with it. Then that's when the spirit got mad at her. After she moved the fridge and repositioned it in another place, and its place put the dinning table with some wine glasses on top, she left, and the spirit knocked the wine glasses very hard off the table, one of them shuddered, the other fell on top of the fabric.
This was the major turning point, I was at work she calls me telling me she's afraid, I was so angered at the spirit that I just wanted to go home and confront it. I then realize it was better to just talk to it, so we did.
The next days everything seemed back to normal, nothing happened, but I wasn't to sure about it so I spoke to my grandmother in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic while on Skype, I told her what happened, she told me I needed the light of God back to me and the house, so I as her beloved grandson followed what she said, we prayed, and then I felt that everything negative in the house left.
Now I believe that there's really another realm, not just this one. There are real ghosts and evil spirits, and that true salvation is on God. I don't feel afraid anymore, because I know I’m safe by him.
So what am I know? Well I'm what is called a Deist, Geist Faust knows as he's one himself as well.
def.
The belief, based solely on reason, in a God who created the universe and then abandoned it, assuming no control over life, exerting no influence on natural phenomena, and giving no supernatural revelation.
I know it sounds as I'm contradicting myself, but I do believe that God exists but he doesn't exert any influence over us, at least telling us what to do with our lives, but he does protect us from negative energies, like evil spirits and such.
I believe that every individual has the rights to practice what they want, be with whom they want and where they want.