hi everyone im a christian. dont judge me to much. yes I have lost faith in god. I used to go to church often and believe but since end of last year uptill now I've had one bad thing after another happen to me. also I feel like my prayers are never answered. I would like to believe in god but how can I, if I cant even be sure he is real. life is hard and I am trying. so where is god when I need him
Hello Vishal...please be assured that nobody will judge you. If they do God has not authorised them to do so -therefore their rhetoric will be irrelevant. It makes me sad that you are going through a difficult time and that your faith has been sorely tested. However Real Christian faith is built on knowledge. The fact that we as humans go through difficult periods in life need not in itself sap our spirituality. In fact it can make us stronger. Just think back to the first century Christians who were killed in the Roman arenas. What did they know that people today do not? Indeed why did the apostle Paul put up with so many hardships? And why was Jesus willing to die an excruciating death? Please allow me to help you to arrive at some answers. Firstly you will need to obtain a modern translation of the Bible without the old hard to understand English terminologies.( unless you already have one..) Please read the first two chapters of the Bible the book of Job. In your next post please relate what stood out to you in that account and then share it with me and we will build on that together ok? By the way... the story of Job actually happened. He was a real person for the Prophet Ezekiel refers to Noah, Daniel and Job and the Christian writer James points to Job's example. Besides that the Bible book of Job is also referred to by the Apostle Paul.
thanks I appreciate your advice but sometimes I feel encouragement in plain english would be more helpful than alot of preaching. life isn't as simple n im trying but like I said it isn't enough
Hello Vishal...as a free moral agent you have the right to decide your actions. In your first post you asked a very serious question that resonated with me because I too asked similar questions earlier in my life. Some very kind people helped me find the answers... and I was reaching out to you to share what I found. The Great Teacher said to all of us: "seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you"...however this will always require some solid effort on our part.
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Vishal, the most amazing thing happens when you finally, deeply realize that there is no god: all these dilemmas that frustrate and depress you start to melt away and seem kind of silly. It is refreshing. It's going to be a long process for you, shifting away from religion, and you will likely flip flop and "revert" to believing in some kind of god again (and again), but each time the same old problems and questions (without satisfying answers) will keep coming back, and you'll find yourself unable to keep believing in religion. At least, that's how it happened for me. Life will still be hard at times haha, but at least you won't be blaming yourself and freaking out and crying yourself to sleep at night, begging god to help you or tell you why bad things keep happening to you, or why god seems to want you to do this with your life and then he seems to not want you to do it and blah blah blah. The answer to most of those hard questions in life is simple: that's just life. That's what "random events" look like. Good things happen, and bad things happen. Sometimes they are spread apart and don't seem to have any pattern. And then sometimes bad things pile up on you one after another and make you cry out to god for help. And sometimes good things happen one after another and make you feel like praising the lord. But that's just what random life looks like. You'll make yourself go crazy trying to always figure out "why" god let this happen or why things aren't working out for you. Instead, take life for what it is. There are amazing opportunities and experiences all around you. Life is awesome and fun, but you have to go after what you want and not let negative people bring you down and lay guilt trips on you and all that. Good luck, my friend. Message me on here or on my blog anytime if you need to talk with someone who gets what you're going through. Aloha, Chris
Who Is God ? You know, we all talk about being more godlike and if you ask 50,000 people what a good definition of God, I guarantee you that you will get 51,000 definitions. I was just sitting here thinking when I was a little kid, I would ask people. I would say. “Who is God? Where is God? What is God? I would always get a common answer of God is in everything around you. God is in him. God is in her and the thing that they have in common is that they were alive. So I wonder if that means that God is life. Every pamphlet that I ever read, every spiritual book that I ever read, always says that God is love. So does that mean that God is life and God is love? And if we think about what life really is, life is action. And if we think about what love is, love is about giving. So it's safe to say that if we want to live our life more godlike, the solution is to give ourselves to others through action. I don't know. I’'m asking you, what's your thoughts?
Hii There are some reason to believe that god is really present such as The complexity of our planet points to a deliberate Designer who not only created our universe, but sustains it today The universe had a start - what caused it? The universe operates by uniform laws of nature. Why does it?
