RE: Religious Experiences

RE: Religious Experiences

1. Numinous Experience

   • An experience that makes a person full of Awe and Wonder. Words are usually not enough to describe it.
   • It leaves a person aware of a greater being than themselves
   • A sunrise could be a numinous experience

2. Conversion

   • An experience that causes an individual to change beliefs.
   • An atheist may become a believer in God
   • In the bible Saul originally persecuted Christians, but then converted to Christianity

3. Prayer

   • A method which believers use to communicate with God
   • Prayer can be in a group or personal
   • People pray to share ideas with God, or to praise him, and thank him for what he has provided, or to ask for forgiveness

4. Miracles

   • An act of God that appears to be impossible as it goes against the laws of nature
   • Usually performed for a religious reason
   • Jesus performed miracles like feeding 5000 people and healing a crippled man

5. A religious experience convinces someone that God exists