There is no hell! There is only a jealous God. This god choses and designs the people he wants to be powerful, may they do good or bad. And then God designs victims. The purpose of victims is to make his chosen experiences power and have wealth. Victims are just puppets for the amusement of god and his chosen. A true loving god would have given all the people on the earth different psychological programming; removing jealousy, selfishness, and greed. There is nothing equal here. We are all not programmed the same way. So when you are looking at your life dont blame yourself for mistakes or goals not obtained. Dont compare yourself to other and be disappointed. Its not you fault. The puzzle piece that you were Designed for has limits. The are gods limits. God will never allow you to be more than he wants you to be. If you are his primary then he will hold you through your journey. But, if you are his secondary then he will disable or cripple you before he will recognize you as an equal to his primary. His crippling is where all of your scars come from. At the end of the primary's journey, you will not see a blemish, the thing you will see is qods light over him. while the secondary carries the heavy darkness.
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Luke Green
2 years ago
Hi I'm luke I'm 37 from the u.k I came across a place where I work and its a place where they help all churches. I spoke to a man called Adrian Reynolds. (I don't know how we started speaking) I told him I don't believe in God even tho my parents got me Christian when I was young. Also I have a tattoo sleeve with the 3 crosses and the holy bible . Il get to my point. My life right now ain't great and I have made some silly mistakes in my life. Iv cheated on my partner for a 1night stand which I totally regret. Iv never told my partner what has happened as it would ruin her life and my daughters. I wish I didn't do what I did and most days beat myself up about it. If I could take back what I did or press a reset button I would. I would give anything for this to happen. I have in the past tried to commit suicide as the guilt is eating me alive. Plz can I somehow been forgiven for my sins and have that reset button? Any advice would be massively appreciated.
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Priya Abraham
2 years ago
Hi, this is priya and I hail from India. My issue is exactly the same as Carissa (posted 9 months back). why i have so mouch of doubt eventhough i know everything abt god. My doubts may sound lunatic. how will i know whether i have belief, if yes how will i know, how does it feel. why god isnt taking to me. i have had so many bad and painful incidents my entire life. i want feel free and painless. i want to startliving my life like others. no husband, kids, nothing.pls
Hello, I've been reading the comments and I can relate to most of them. I reconnected with God in the beginning, it was like drinking water for the first time, but in the back of my mind would I always be the questio if I was truly saved. Then came the blasphemous thoughts, the fear of apostasy and of being a false prophet, they were really bad and I would have panic attacks, but they didn't stop. The bad feelings went away and it just became normal to wake up and have these thoughts for the whole day. I got frustrated and angry at God, I would cry and scream, sometimes asking for help and sometimes just blaming Him and just really bad stuff. Because all this I've become apathetic and it makes me wonder if I even want to be saved. I was in a really good place with God and then all of a sudden it turned into this, before I would go to bed and hope for Jesus coming, now I don't even know if heaven is real. All the hateful and blasphemous thoughts turned me into someone I don't even recognise, I try to go back, but it seems like I hit a wall and I hate who I've become, most of the time I ask myself what's the point of all this, of life? It's like everything lost it's meaning. When I'm feeling sorta ok I talk to God "normally", but them comes the thought that I have to believe in Jesus to be saved and that He is coming and I'm a mess again. I try to read the bible, but it just feels like I'm reading another book. I pray that when I read it I believe, I pray to have my thoughts renewed, I pray to have faith in Jesus, I pray to just believe, but it's been hard. On top of that I get angry and jealous of my family's faith, they tallk about how they come to faith and how their relationships are with God and I'm left with nothing, not even one memory of a connection with God. I would really like to just erase this part of my life and go back to what it was, but I'm just stuck and hopeless, it's like the God I know it's completely diferent from what other's know. The days are stretching and at the same time I feel like I don't have time, I feel powerless of my thoughts, actions and feelings. Any advice is welcomed and just thanks for reading, it's lonely and just knowing someone out there heard me makes it a tiny bit better
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Andy Percy
3 years ago
Can I ask for your thoughts, I was raised in a Christian family and although many years have passed since I have entered a church I have always considered myself as a Christian, I have recently got married to a wonderful woman who is very committed to her Christian faith and it has left me feeling like I'm a fraud as I don't have any where near her conviction, I attend church services and bible studies and look a my watch to see when it will end, I feel really bad for it. ??
I was raised Christian and was fundamentalist at one point. Slowly as a young adult I stopped believing and became Atheist. Was bitter and resentful. Now in mid thirties, I have come to a place where I believe the Bible to be true and see that it offers a right way to live. I respect Christians I know and don’t argue the validity of the Bible. I just can’t bring myself to believe in God though. I think I see how Christianity works even if there isn’t a God. God doesn’t have to be real, you just have to believe he is real, and then everything works right. You live a mostly right life and mostly good things happen and even when they don’t, you can lean on the gospel. I think it’s a beautiful story and I WANT it to be real. I’ve been going to church and praying for faith. Reading books like “the case for Christianity”. Listening to lectures, talking with pastors and other Christians. I’m really struggling right now and just feel like if there was a God surely he would see my earnest desire for faith and grant me that. Surely he would see that I can’t take much more and feel close to giving up. Isn’t it more likely that I haven’t been given faith because there really isn’t a God? And if there is no God, won’t I just be banging my head for the rest of my life asking for faith and never receiving it? At what point do I give up? My brain feels incapable of belief. I’ve shed tears. Screamed. Begged. Researched. Reasoned. Prayed. The closest I’ve come is having faith in the Bible, believing the Gospel is beautiful, and understanding that it is better to believe.. that it would serve me well to believe. Not sure if there is anything you can say to help with that, but maybe just pray for me. Thanks.
Carly
Hello I just don't really understand as im still young and I don't know how to classify this I believe in reincarnation as in a 2nd life I believe in the super natural, ghosts, demons, spirits, and even angels I believe in all of this I believe in bad luck I believe in good luck I believe that this world wasn't just randomly made and that someone or something even made it I believe in all of that and I always try to put my faith into god and I'm always trying to be a better person and not to sin does this mean when I do die knock on wood too that I would just be sent down? Is this classified as believing in god It's like I put my faith into him but like I don't fully believe that he is real himself and I definitely do believe in you know that there is a hell or heaven because for one I just don't believe at all when we die there is just absolutely nothing and I even believe in everything happens for a reason. Someone please help me understand or lead me to the right direction.
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Robert Bristow
4 years ago
How can I look to Jesus if I didn't believe in the supernatural? How can scripture let me believe if I think it's nonsense? Look at it this way: how can I make myself believe my dogs speaks Latin? If you said such and such book or teacher says it's so why would I believe it or them when there is no solid evidence? Your argument is jibberish and I still am unhappy because I have no faith.
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bosoncea constantin florin
2 years ago
We are a group of orphans from Romania.
We live in a school dormitory,
We are a group of 70 who live in the boarding school.
There are still classmates outside the dormitory.
We have no hope and future because we are not well with Health and Jobs, and with Others.
We ask you if you can visit us to see where we live and what state we Orphans are in.
We Orphans do not have a good future and no hope for the future, that's why we are contacting you and asking you to come and see what state we are in.
We Orphans have had a long past with Suffering Pains, Lacks. Disappointments. Sadness, Diseases, without Love, without Hope, without State Help.
It would be a great Miracle for you to visit us and see us and do something and for us Orphans from Romania we thank you.
Bosoncea Constantin
[email protected] bless you all and your family Amen.
I feel like I’m in a spot I don’t know how to get out of. I am so desperate to believe, to have this relationship, and to lean on him. I don’t know how to do any of this or how to make it click for me, I don’t know why I feel so incapable of believing. I grew up going to church and serving; I even was going on the youth mission trips. Apart of me now thinks, was I just playing pretend? Is this all pretend? I’ve gotten so tired lately, hit so many dead ends, and been through so much with other people, even my family. I’m eighteen and I don’t want to be here anymore, I’m desperately grasping for straws and NEEDING this to be real. I just don’t know how to make this feel real for me, or how to make it real, or how to encounter him. I want to believe but truly don’t know how. I’ve prayed and asked for this faith, screamed and cried for God to just help me with this. If I could could just at heart know that this was true, I would have no issues laying my life at his feet and going all in. Simply because I don’t want this life and everything that it has to offer me without God. I have no benefit from not believing, I just don’t know how to convince myself. It’s like there’s this wall up in my brain that’s keeping me from it. I don’t know if any of you would have answers. I even see someone in this discussion who seems to be in the same boat, only older. Like she said, pray for me please. I wan’t to figure this out so badly, I wan’t to believe.
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Is it worth it
2 years ago
I left my first husband of 7 plus years when I was 26 I didn’t want to leave but it was toxic and i was removed by my family from him, I then meet my 2nd husband at 28 and he lied, stole, and tried to control as well as abuse me, I Hd to run for my life from him. When I left I thought God told me(not sure if he even talks to me or even real let alone) that he will take care of me and that I will be okay, in a way i regret leaving my first husband. No he wasn’t 100% better than my 2nd husband but I feel over time we could have made it work. I feel I should’ve followed my heart and tried harder , now here I am stressed about my livelihood, living with my parents, barely making it. I have 4 months to figure out how to take care of myself and I feel like I ruined my life. I pray and ask God for more clients while promoting myself, everything I ask of God I try to make sure I’m doing the work also, it’s like it’ll get better for a bit and back to square one. I feel stuck , everyone my age is married with kids and here I am struggling barely able to afford my own place. I do right by others, I don’t steal but yet everything I’m praying for isn’t being answered. Yet I’ve watched those who have done me wrong still prosper. All I get told is pray but that’s all I’ve been doing. To the point where I feel there’s no point. I try to express my anger but I keep getting shut down and told I’m being negative and that they don’t know what to tell me but yet these are the same people who gave their opinion about me leaving my first marriage yes DV was involved but we were young. I feel like dealing with that is better then this .. idk anymore I’m feeling like God is punishing me for whatever reason…
Just tired l and frustrated
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iwanttobelieve
2 years ago
Most of my family is christian but I don't believe in god, I've seen my grandma pray for my aunt when she was in possible danger and she came out of it great and that makes me believe. How do i tell my family that i (for lack of better words) that i want to become a believer of god.
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paul reveley
2 years ago
We are all travellers on this cosmic journey, stardust swirling and dancing in a whirlpool of life. We have only stopped for a moment, to share part of our eternal life with other's (this can be good or bad, the choice is ours) . One thing I know. inside every atom ⚛️ is a key, we can't touch, hold, or see, but we know its there cos the feeling's so strong in every one of us. each time we get closer to unlocking it, it gets further away from us. this I believe is why we have faith 🙏 hope, believe cos the key travels with us like a light showing us the way. this key has many names and can confuse us in many different ways, the only thing we can do is wait for the key to present its self to us. x
Good content and The video started off good and it made complete sense until it said “ I became one of you, I became fragile, I died for you but I have created you???” Jesus, peace be upon him, was an only a messenger of God and a human, not God. God was never born or given birth, human attributes can not be given to him. He is the almighty creator.
Please don’t.
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Oh R'lyeh?
4 years ago
I grew up Southern Baptist and the faith my family had could indeed move mountains. I lost my faith when my mother died of cancer because it was horrible and I wondered what kind of God would allow such a thing. And with all the awful chaos in the world, I find it even harder to have faith. I guess I still believe because I wouldn't be writing this if I didn't care. My problem is that I don't want to be a hypocrite or want to believe out of fear. I want to go back to having the genuine faith I had as a child. We have mega churches where I live and the parishioners are appalling! rude and lawless. they think they are pure and call themselves Christians but I look at them and think... if this is what Christianity is then forget it. But then I look at my father and my grandmother and I know, without a doubt, that they are the embodiment of Christianity. How can I get that faith back?
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Kaylee Marie
4 years ago
Hello Everyone my name is Kaylee. I was born and raised in a little southern Baptist church. I accepted the Lord at a young age and was baptized right shortly after I've always known who God is and what he is capable of but in my life and in my family things have happened throughout the years that have gotten me to question if he's out there or not. Everyone I talk to says pray and he will speak to you and I'm having trouble with that because I don't understand how I'm suppose to hear him. I've never heard what he wants for me or what my calling is and that makes the questioning even worse sometimes. I am a drug addict who desperately wants and needs help. I'm here to ask if anyone could help me please I want to know my calling and live my life happy healthy sober and blessed with God presence. I'm lost and I don't know how to get back.
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Arabesque AS
3 years ago
I Need More education I’m Missing a lot I Feel Less Like I’ve learned less than everything 😪
I can't understand why God doesn't tell us he loves us or that he even knows us. We can't get away with treating one another this way and still have a relationship.
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Edward Grey
3 years ago
I understand the article, and these are part of life. Most people see this phase in their lives and some feel empty inside even though they have achieved so much. Our heart is always hungry for spiritual needs.
I understand this cause I've been through this phase, but my willingness to improve saved me. I took small, basic steps like reading a book to guide myself to pray daily. The distance was long however, I made it. Where God leads, I'll follow was the first step of my journey, and I would highly recommend each of you read this if you are looking for initial guidance.
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Michael Barnett
3 years ago
'It' is love. 'It' is near with stress including war. Two things merge you with 'Love.' Controlling - Slow and deepen your breathing when ever you can. Also pain recognition stretching. When you merge you may notice two things, humour and speed.
Humanity is not liked,
eBook series 'Religion Separates Man From God.'
Quran Well give you knowledge like you never seen before, You well be amazed Of how unique the book is.
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3 years ago
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The real issue appears to be that people who want to believe, i.e to have a faith, do so principally because they find it hard to accept that we live a complete life from absolute ignorance at the beginning, culminating in a lifetime's experience at the end, and then it is all over. What is it all about, they ask themselves, if all that acquired knowledge ends without a further purpose? It is worth remembering that all human life comes into being having no faith in, or knowledge of, a deity in any form, and that state of faithlessness will continue unless the child is given some kind of religious instruction. Many of the principles and attitudes enshrined in the Christian faith, for example, undoubtedly contribute to a 'good' society. But to cultivate a 'good' society, however, does not require people to seek to believe in a supernatural entity - either as a passport to a paradise, or as a threat of retribution, after death. My own conviction is that the fundamental requirements of a good society, and a good life, consist of only two things : Truth and Love. These were in existence before Christianity, and will survive its decline. Truth and love, applied in their widest sense, would yield the greatest possible co-operation and sympathetic action between individuals and nations. If more people would recognise that to hold truth and love as the greatest ideal, and accept that this mortal life is the only one we have, they would value so much more what life is, and what it is worth.
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Garrett909
3 years ago
2 days ago i was comparing Bible prophacy to historical records and I had the revalation that the Bible is true. I was happy that God had a plan of salvation for humanity and here I am now.
I've barely eaten or slept in days and i've just walked all day and night outside in fear of my soul. I don't know how I went from feeling the presence of God to struggling to believe in one. I'm scared.
Praise be to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who was and is and forever will be. The greatest joy of a Christian is the see God glorified and this thread shows a team of soldiers who are dedicated to doing just that. How precious are the feet of those who bring good news running over the hill reporting the victory of the battle being won.
At the end, every knee will bow the the King. Be the one who bows now. Bow with us know. He is so worthy. You don't want to be left standing in the last day trying to defend your glory against His.
God is a real total scumbag since he is destroying our world today, and just look at the damage that he is doing to us now. And many of didn't ask to be born as it is, especially with all the suffering that is going on today as i speak. Too bad we didn't have a real God today to make justice. Problem solved.
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Over Reaction
4 years ago
I asked YHWH, that is the name of God from the Bible and consulted his teachings. I pray to God and the voice within my head wishes me to kill the worst sinners as he is a vengeful God. He said it will succeed because he is with me. Obviously I decided not to kill anyone but that was my personal decision, uninfluenced by God. I did ask Yahweh why his Son teaches differently and he said both what he has said and his Son have said are true. (Which confuses me since they contradict each other.)
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Lola Lamaro
5 years ago
I don't know what's wrong with me....😣 I got saved ...3 months back and I had this overwhelming love for Christ that I just wanted to share with everyone...but now I'm in the dark and struggling to believe...believing in God is something I have never struggled with...but right now I'm drowning and trying to cling to whatever faith I have left..and hoping that the Lord will cling to me
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Cessy Mercadel
4 years ago
To the lovely people who run this website. Thank you and I know you are definitely doing the work of God. God bless you all so much more and I hope you all have a blessed day.
- Chriscilla
Hello there,
If you still reply to comments I'd like to ask for some help:
I believe in Jesus as the Son of God. I believe I was born again, but I don't understand the bible nor how to be a Christian. The more I try to be good, to avoid sin and sinful thoughts, the more I get disappointed, frustrated, scared, discouraged, angry, sad and away from Jesus, I feel like I don't love him anymore-or maybe I do, I don't even know how to discern that, yeah! My stomach started to hurt because of all the stress and sadness this has caused me and I have blasphemous thoughts I don't want to have. I never know how to please Him, I just know I want to. I can't do this anymore like this, something has to give!
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Heritage Davidson
5 years ago
Hey, I am heritage, I found Christ early 2020 I was always a Christian but lukewarm—- I grew much in him happy and strong.... but lately I have been going through a lot.... like thinking I am better than others( especially those in the Bible) getting jealous, and not really being happy, I have also been having doubts, and it scares me. I also have a problem about the fear of backsliding and leaving Jesus. I moved to a much tougher neighborhood, I wonder why God brought me here. I struggle to take control of my thoughts. I have sensual thoughts, blasphemous thoughts and hateful thoughts. I try to praise God but I don’t FEEL like it comes from my heart. I don’t know anymore, I fear that I will stop believing and I can’t live my life like others. I can’t go to the beach cuz to me it’s considered not listening to God. I can’t watch tv—- like something that isn’t either a Christian movie or a sermon. And I try my best to live this christian life but it’s like I can’t.... my past sin, one time made me feel like I should kill my self... the guilt, I really want to live my life for Christ. If you have any advice please share. Thank you! God bless. Oh and in sch, I always feel like I’m every of my work I must add something about God. I struggle to share God’s word verbally not on social media. And one time I said all religion are false and the LGBTQ and Idk if it is wrong to say that.... because one girl said that is disrespectful but idk how it is if it is true!! But ya if you have an advice, please tell me.
My situation exactly described
Hi,
I.was not raised catholic. I started searching for God about a year and a half ago. Still, I am not a "believer", nor am I a "non-believer". I just feel like I am on stand by. My desire and longing to believe has been getting stronger and deeper, every day, for the last year. Its even more than a desire, its a need, an ache. I have seen transformation within myself that are so not of my own doing, I have seen many doors open for me that are incredibly awesome. But yet, I still.cant say "God! YOU DO EXIST!.You are for real!"
Its like, all the really good things that have kept happening for me are "good" but at the same time "meaningless" compared to what my heart truly desires. And the fact that i cant have this conviction that God does exist, makes everything senseless, and the pain is excruciating. Im.not truly living, its like the real life is passing me by.
Still, I have decided to walk the path of faith for the rest of my life. I have decided to let go, be patient and be hopeful that one day I will so believe.
And I stopped blaming myself for maybe not "doing enough". Because this is not about merits right? I cant control whether or not I have faith no?
What is blocking my faith?
Man I hope that it is all part of the plan, that god will give to me and use me in the same measure that my soul has suffered in that last year.
Any thoughts on this would be super appreciated
D.
I grew up in a very religious household, currently I don’t believe in God but I really want to. My young child passed away May 2020 and I want to believe that there’s a heaven so I know he’s OK and I’ll see him again. I have started to re-read the Bible again, it has been years since I read it the first time. I have even written out questions and met with a pastor, however I know all the answers but I feel nothing towards God emotionally. I have no personal relationship and I am so angry on top of it. I think I look at things to logically and it’s hard to have faith in something that there’s no concrete evidence for. I am lost, empty and very numb. Do you have any suggestions or ideas on how I can move forward and having a relationship with God? It’s not even for me, maybe it should be but I just want to know my little boys OK
I feel like over the past few years, I've slowly lost contact with God. Every year, I go to my church's yearly worship summer camp, I encounter God... and then it seems I just forget. Camp over, sin starts creeping back in. I then start to feel inadequate to talk to God, making way for more sin and so on and so on. I feel like what's happening is I believe with my heart when I see God moving, but only with my mind when I don't. How can I get out of this pattern and fully put my trust in God?
ever since the pandemic I have not engaged with my church online. one of the main reason why is that the preacher keeps stating the reason why we go thru things is because we did something wrong and that's why God is punishing us. also he keeps down playing mental health. I did not know mental health was real until the pandemic. it has been a year since I worked in the office with other co workers, a year that I have not hugged my parent. to describe my life is that it seems like I cannot get out of my own way. my Spirit tells me to read my Bible but at the same time the flesh (thoughts) are like for what, my situation is not going to change. I am tired of being angry all the time and not able to talk to anyone. I called the suicide hotline and got hung up on. at that moment I did not feel worthy to live and contemplated suicide. tired of focusing on the negative in my life, the world period. I am a member of COC converted from Baptist teachings. with the teachings at this day and time I do not care what I learned due to the failures in my life. at the end of the day I just want to be loved, seen and heard.
Recently I’ve been doubting my faith in God. And I cant stop thinking,‘Am I a Christian because I believe in God, or because that’s how I was raised?’ I want to connect or at least be a better Christian. But I get so overwhelmed with all these “rules”, and statements. Like it’s some strict rule book I have to follow to connect with God. And I think that’s why I’ve separated from God. Because to be honest I’ve never actually had that relationship with God. I’ve always viewed church and prayers as a chore. And I’m not sure what to do anymore. Is there any advice you can give?
Hi, thank you so much for this article. I’d like to share my struggle and maybe get some advice for it? So basically I grew up as a Christian and my uncle is also a pastor so I’ve always had knowledge on God. I was baptized when I was 13 I think (I’m 20 now) but I don’t even remember the day because it seems so insignificant because I was baptized and came out unchanged (baptism was something I wanted btw not anything I was forced to do). For the longestttt time what motivated my faith was the fear of hell, I was so so scared and I thought that my faith was also based on my works. I no longer think that it’s works based and I know it’s because of my faith now (shoutout to quarantine for making me want to spend alone time with God). So yeah I was really motivated in my walk and I have seen God move in my life and prayers answered, but as of recently it’s as if my belief in God Himself is being attacked. It’s like most days I believe and trust in what Jesus did and it just makes sense but sometimes I have doubts. And it’s so hard because it’s like do I not believe enough?? But then I know we just need faith as small as a mustard seed. It’s really stressing me out and I wanna see my friends and people I know saved as well. I have such a desire for people to know God, but how can I introduce them to God when I feel like I haven’t experienced Him fully for myself/ I struggle with my faith. I feel like I have knowledge on Him but it’s like it hasn’t changed me and I so so desire that and I don’t know what to do. Sometimes I feel like others can get saved but I just can’t happen for me — I know this isn’t true but it’s just a thought that invades my mind. It’s like I have knowledge that he leaves the 99 for 1 but it’s so hard for my mind to accept that or something. This is also random but I’ve felt like a calling to be off of social media and I haven’t been listening. I get so confused if it’s just my head or God trying to talk to me
The thing is I'm just not sure if it's true. I want it to be, I want to believe that if I put all my trust in God that I will go to Heaven and be with him forever, but forever seems like a long time. Many people say when you die, your soul goes somewhere else, but what even are souls? Do they really exist? How can you characterize consciousness when your brain has shut down and your neurons don't work anymore and your ability to perceive is gone? How is that possible? I love the idea of God, I love the idea of someone loving me and watching over me to protect me, but the more I think about an invisible being who created me and loves me despite everything, the less it seems to make sense. Every time I try to convince myself that these doubts are not mine, and Satan is making me have them, it makes me confused because I am a free thinker, and I'm just trying to use logic to evaluate my belief system and I don't think that's "evil" or "bad." I think as humans it's natural to question things, so I don't see why that could be blasphemy or insulting to God. I feel like if I were God, I wouldn't feel hurt by people questioning my power, because they've never seen me and there is no proof of my existence. But I get scared that if there is a judgement day and I get to Heaven, God will lock me out because of these doubts despite how much I want to love Him. But I don't. I love the idea of Him, and I feel like because I often try to comprehend things that are beyond my ability to comprehend, I never will be able to confidently say "yes, God exists and I am his child."
Hey I'm really struggling with my beliefs at this point and I have a few questions. If God truly doesn't want us to die then why not save his entire creation automatically...no talk of hell or things like that? If God is all powerful why did either He [Jesus] or I HAVE to die? If he is all powerful what need is there for is death or sacrifice? God isn't in an equal battle with anything, Satan, humanity, etc. If he is all knowing and knows everything we will ever do then why do people go to hell for acting differently?
Hi,I’ve been struggling for quite some months.I struggle a lot to believe that I deserve hell and I still don’t see myself as a sinner.I’ve been praying for God to change my view of him and of myself but it doesn’t work,it makes me despair quite a lot.I read the Bible regularly so that maybe God will convert me to a Christian through it.But honestly it just feels like I’m working towards my salvation which I know isn’t the right thing to do?Will God answer my prayer even though I’m still not Christian yet?Should I keep praying and reading the Bible and how do I keep from despairing?
Thank you
Hi there. I write out of desperation. I grew up Catholic, so I had the knowledge of God, but I never connected to that. Within the last yr or so, I joined a bible study group and learned the true ways. I have cleaned up my life significantly, as I came from a lot of trauma, which left me swelling from Gods ways for many years. I had already made steps to cleaning up my life a little before that, but I dont feel I was truly "born again" until recently. My problem is, I suffer from some pretty severe anxiety. I always have, but now it's more centered on my fluctuating feelings of the possibility I may not actually be saved. I think I believe, etc..but my anxiety or the enemy convinces me I may not be BECAUSE I have such severe anxiety. Extremely bad loop of thoughts. I do not bear the fruit of peace and without peace you cant have joy, so I feel I may be in trouble. I seek the Lord diligently, but ultimately I'm not sure if deep down something is missing because I'm in severe turmoil all the time. The fear is completely paralyzing. I do compare myself to my other Christian friends which I'm certain isnt helpful, but why am I so incredibly anxious? Has to be a faith issue. I know God says if you seek you will find but I feel a disconnect. I'm incredibly frightened to die until I can rectify this. I know it's nothing I can really do, but I pray constantly and practically beg to just know I'm saved. I wont be able to help others and spread the word if I stay stagnant and fearful. I was doing so great and now it seems all of a sudden, I cant shake these anxious, intrusive. destructive thoughts. I even get panic attacks reading scripture sometimes and that just heightens my anxiety thinking I'm a lost cause. Its absolutely horrific. I want that true love relationship that my other friends have with God but instead I have an unhealthy fear.
Hey so I believe in Jesus I believe he died for my sins but I just feel so distant from the Lord and it scares me, I want to be close to him so bad but I don’t know how to I don’t know what to do and it’s so hard for me to just be like “believe” because where do you even start, I know you don’t go to heaven by works alone but I always try to do what’s right and I best myself up when I do something wrong, I feel like my sons distance me from God to where I can’t have him, I don’t know how to over come these feelings ans I also don’t know how to let them go and give them to God genuinely. I am so terrified of dying because I don’t know where I’m going, I want to have that comfort in knowing God I want to know him but I don’t know how. I am constantly praying and asking the Lord to open my eyes I’m reading a on it trying to figure out what to do but I can’t figure it out, I feel like I’m sinning when I don’t read or I can’t pay attention, I feel like I don’t give any effort into my walk with the Lord when I do, I don’t know what to do, I’m stuck and can’t get out. I want that relationship but I feel like I can’t have it. I don’t have a comfort in the Lord, I feel abandoned by the Holy Spirit and it scares me. I don’t wanna be lukewarm and not know it and I don’t want to be just an actions no faith kinda person. I’m sorry this is everywhere but I’m just so lost and need help. Any advice will help, thank you.
I am a 54 year old man, living in the Denver area. I have a MBA. I have a great job and career, I have successfully served in the Army Reserves for over 27 years. I am doing well financially despite the many others that had lost their jobs and are struggling to make ends meet. I am in relatively good health. So what's the problem here? The reason I am saying all that is that I should be feeling blessed. I do believe that, even though I worked hard to get to where I am, I sometimes think that there was some luck involved or perhaps some divine intervention. Then the practical side of me wonders, "Why me when there are so many others around the world that suffer"? "This isn't God coming to my assistance, this is just hard work and a little luck". As much as I so badly want to believe in God, I struggle to believe he even exists. Meanwhile, I see so many that believe and are genuinely happy yet they have had serious setbacks in their lives, due to illness, financial struggles, victims of crimes,,,,, etc. So with that said, I am not happy. I feel terribly alone and without a purpose in life. I don't want to just "believe" I want to "KNOW" that God exists. But how? I have spoken to several "born-again" Christians,,,, and most seem to be a bunch of kooks. I can't seem to relate. They don't seem genuine to me. Maybe it's just me? I need help!
Recently I’ve been reading the word of god and just talking to him and it was good for a while then my mind started to get filled out with the thoughts again I felt like I was slowly getting closer to Jesus than I started get thoughts like “ sell your soul” and thoughts like “ yes satan” and I give my so—l to you and stuff like that for the pass two days and now I’m wondering if it’s even possible or hope for me Im just constantly at war with my mind
Im really struggling bad right now trying to find my faith and belief. I was spiritually abused when I was younger and had a lot of misconceptions about God. Im so lost. I want to believe and surrender but somethings blocking me. Renee someone whom posted here 4 years ago literally described what I am going through almost to a T. I wish there was a way to reach out to her but there isn't. I need God. No one understands what I am going through and their response is “just believe its that simple...” No its not..... I want to so bad. Somethings blocking me and I feel like Im on the edge of a cliff about to surrender but cant. Its SO hard. Please pray for me. I already requested a mentor.... hoping maybe they can help me and not blow me off. The lack of genuine Christian help in my city is sad. I dont want to be left if God comes back and I fear that bad. More than that though I am tired of living to survive. I want to live. I dont know how to give up control and surrender and believe. I feel numb/apathetic a lot of the time too and its torture. I scream at the devil to leave me alone because I feel like hes angry that I am trying to find God so hes attacking. Help! Please!
i know theres a God and i believe but i feel like somethings missing like i dont truly believe or something and i wanna beleive i wanna believe because i wanna go to heaven, but i dont know/ understand why else should believe its confusing , i dont know where to start in the bible so iread around but i dont feel anything i dont feel him talking to me or a strong connection
Hi. I am very badly struggling with my faith. I want to believe in God and Jesus so badly but I am having such a difficult time doing so. There are times where my faith is so strong and now there is this specific time where it is so weak. I truly care so much about this relationship. I put time in away from my assignments from school to read the Bible. Then I reflect on it and look up interpretations of it. I also attend mass virtually ever week. Like I said before, I do this because I want a relationship with God and Jesus so badly. I understand that it is so important to have them in my life. However, I am really struggling believing. I have so many doubts. For the past two weeks I have had panic attacks at night. I shake, cry, and my heart beats really fast. I feel so unsafe in my own body. I hate how this all feels, it is so scary. I feel that I am terrified of God. I am so scared with the idea of going to hell. I know I made many mistakes in life (sins) but I feel like I do have a good heart. I never want to have a goal to try to hurt someone intentionally. I want to be kind and loving to everyone (although sometimes I know I fail). But since I am sinner I am so scared of going to hell. I am having such a hard time believing that God loves and forgives us. If he loves us so much why would he want us to suffer? I'm also so confused when people talk about the second coming of Christ. Does that mean that those who died are just sleeping or are in hell waiting for Jesus to come? I am so terrified thinking this right now. I also think that the evil one tries to bring me in the wrong direction and one time I found a point he made so convincing. However, I know the devil lies and I feel so awful for even listening to him at all. I don't believe in anything he says. I feel like the negative thoughts I get from him are really trying so hard to bring me away from God. I am so scared. I just want to have complete belief and trust in God. I am just really struggling getting to this place. (I am also sorry that this paragraph is so all over the place). I just need advice or words of wisdom from someone how to build this relationship and get rid of these intense fears. My fear really causes me to suffer with these panic attacks and they are so hard to get rid of.
Hi I’m 13 and I too am having trouble in believing in God. I mean I still pray every night and try to repent but I’m not sure if I really believe in him. I really want to, and I try to convince myself that I do but I just don’t know. It’s like a part of me believes, and a part of me wants to believe. And like I said I still try to repent but when I’m tempted most of the time I still give in to the sin. I also pray each night asking for help to repent and praying for everyone else and stuff like that, but I constantly keep seeing that my praying isn’t working. My prayers aren’t really material based like I’m not asking for anything like money or stuff like that I’m just asking for help on repenting. Sometimes I also feel like I sugar coat my belief in God. Like, I act like I truly believe but I still feel like there is apart of me that doesn’t believe. I’m also constantly getting scared of going to hell. It’s like sometimes I think about what if God does exist and I don’t fully believe in him? I’m scared of going to hell but it’s hard to repent and like I said I’m not even sure if he exists. I want to believe but for some reason I don’t think I do. As I’m sure you can tell, I’m very uncertain if I believe or not. If someone asked me if I believed in God it would take me a while to answer and I might say no. I want to believe to the point where if someone asks me I can automatically say yes instead of thinking about it. I also pray that God can give me signs that he really is there but nothing happens. When I pray God doesn’t answer and that might also be why I don’t belive. A part of me is like if he exists and you don’t belive then you are gonna go to hell and another part of me is like if he doesn’t exist then you are praying to absolutely nothing. I want to believe and I read like the First few pages of the Bible but when I look at the pages it’s like all the letters are font size 4 and they fill up hundreds of pages it’s discouraging looking at all those pages and words in the Bible. I don’t feel comfortable talking about this stuff with my family so can one of you guys please help me. Sorry for this long comment.
I'm seventeen. I've been through a lot for my age. My father died at eight, suicide. Mother at fourteen, cancer. Abusive friendship as a child, etc. I really went away from God when my mom passed. She always prayed and so did I and my church... And she still left this world. That was a whole other kind of hurt. I had started to go to church, followed God, and she dies? I was so upset, and I stopped going to church. My former pastor reached out to me a few times, but I turned him away. I've since made amazing friends, all of whom don't believe in God. Even though they don't I would like to believe in Him. But it's hard. I can't see him physically, hear him, touch him. I'm having a hard time putting my faith in someone I cannot communicate with. I am also terrified of church, I've had a few bad experiences there. Help?
