If you aren't born into it, how do you become convinced the supernatural aspects of a religion are real?

Question

The magic, afterlives, miracles, souls and spirits, all that stuff. How do you go from not believing any of this is real to, Yep! Totally real!?

Answer 1

Hard to explain...

Answer 2

Often it is people down on their luck and willing to give anything a try.

Answer 3

Through your own spiritual (not emotional) experiences, of course. Every year millions of honest and sane people experience God for themselves. You ought to try it. Follow the evidence.

Answer 4

Just because one is raised in a religious environment does not mean that one will necessarily remain religious at some point in later life, plus if one believes in a particular form of religion, like any worldview, they will believe in the things that it says.

Answer 5

Answered Prayer

Answer 6

You have supernatural things happen to you as a result of stepping out in belief, Once in a while God makes a special move to show you he is real, you have a near death experience, you logically deduce that God is real.

Answer 7

How do you come to certitude (certainity) about anything? Your brain processes enough information to where 1. you believe it possible, 2. believe it is likely, then the last stage is 3. certitude, you know it is true. So the same process is with religion as it is with anything else.

There was a story about a hardened atheist doctor, he went to Lourdes France and reserached the miracles there. Over several months he came to believe the miracles were supernatural. He is now in the Catholic Church (he converted). For most people obtaining certitude it is not a "get knocked off your horse" moment, like some dramatic 1 day thing. It takes time for most people to process the information

Answer 8

Believe that God sent His son Jesus to save your eternal soul.. the Holy Spirit will reveal the rest to you.

Answer 9

Examine the testable evidence.

Answer 10

There are various factors of both nature and nurture that can lead people astray. Many people find the real world so difficult that they readily grasp at the concept of some kind of alternative reality. This gives them psychological comfort for which they are quite prepared to abandon reason and rational thinking so they can live in a fantasy world.