I'm having a crisis of faith. I've been Christian all of my life, but here over the past couple of years I have begun to feel doubt weigh upon my shoulders. I feel disgusted with myself. Are there any fellow Christians who can relate and help me through this internal struggle?
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pray to God to help you through it
I do, and it brings me some comfort. But the feelings of doubt continue to return.
There are so many things in the Old and New Testament that the atheists on this board point out to me that don't seem to make much sense. It has damaged the integrity of my faith, I fear. I want to follow in His footsteps, but I continue to betray Him with my doubt.
Brahma
Vishnu
Shiva
The Holy Trinity of prots.
Read books? You have like 2000 years worth of material to look at, nothing anyone says here or anywhere is original or a surprise. Most nonsense here is just brandolini's law in motion, it takes far more effort to refute stupidity than to produce it.
Don't be ashamed to doubt. If God exists, he gave you a brain and is not going to hate you for using it.
Christ said that the most important rules were to love your neighbor as yourself and love God with all your heart.
If you follow the golden rule, or at least the spirit of it (I do not expect Christ was being perfectly articulate), and if you wish with all of your heart for an omnibenevolent omniscient being to exist, then you have not betrayed Him. Much of the old testament is in contradiction with His two highest decrees.
>Much of the old testament is in contradiction with His two highest decrees.
Doesn't that tip you off that it's all kind of bullshit?
Name one thing in this world that is not "kind of" bullshit.
Your freedoms are bullshit. Bullshit that I love. Bullshit that ostensibly matters, even if fallaciously. We don't have better, in this world, than what is ostensibly yet fallaciously important.
Better to pray to Goddesses and Gods of the Orthodox.
Doubts such as what?
Why do Christians this board as a blog/self-help forum? Unironically /r/Christianity or any dedicated Christian forum would be a better place for you.
Yeah, but then they can't play dolls with wojaks.
You don't seem familiar enough with God's Word.
Last I happened to land on r/christianity by some web search, it was full of rabid atheists and apostate "progressive Christians", I don't remember if a single one of them was even anti-baby killing (human sacrifice a.k.a. abortion), most of them were parroting all the lies of dehumanizing the child to justify murdering it. But if you kill a pregnant woman, it's double homicide; if a pregnant woman kills her own child, it's still homicide even if society and government refuses to accept this.
>letting IQfy atheists affect your faith
You do realize most of them are unironic communists/nazis/socialists, right? They covet what others have and want to steal it via the state, socialists don't believe in truth, just pushing their agendas and ideologies. Look up Answers in Genesis or Is Genesis History or some other apologetics (doesn't matter who I name, they all trigger the atheists).
You must be thinking about the pantheon of gods and idols of Roman Catholicism.
Roman Catholicism has a false gospel, a self-righteous works-based gospel, that denies the sufficiency of the blood atonement of Christ and they boast in themselves. They're often very similar to the hate-filled and arrogant Calvinist apostates.
Protestants have 7 Goddesses and 3 Gods which they worship.
I'll bite.
Who are they?
>Look up Answers in Genesis or Is Genesis History or some other apologetics (doesn't matter who I name, they all trigger the atheists).
Kek you really think shilling young earth creationist apologetics to a guy who's doubting will help?
Evolution and millions of years has been debunked for years, but you atheists lose faith and your beliefs die off if you lose censorship and tax-funded indoctrination and access to others' kids in schools. Odd that the "LGBT" (sodomites) also want the same sort of access to children to indoctrinate them in the schools.
But you're never honest and never argue in good faith, but why would you when atheists claim morality is relative? Why wouldn't atheists lie to proselytize their blind faith that God doesn't exist outside of their knowledge, who's watching? Most of them are incapable of finding God because of their wickedness and pride, they'd know this had they read what they even criticize, but they're always ignorant. Atheism really relies on tax-funded indoctrination, misinterpreting separation of church and state to ban competing world views while theirs is in the school systems even if it contradicts science and history, and it also heavily relies on ignorance.
That's not enough. To be reconciled to God, you need Jesus Christ.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
And I mean the Jesus of the Bible, not the Jesus of Islam or of Catholicism or Mormonism or JWs or pop culture or media cartoons or whatever, they have a different Jesus. And Jesus isn't just the son of God, he's the only begotten Son of God. Jesus is God manifest in the flesh.
John 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Thanks for working so hard to turn christians away from christianity, breh.
I see people like you all the time in street or campus preaching videos all the time. Compromised "Christians" so eager to be friends with the world, compromise the Word of God; not even seeking to understand those you clearly hate, but just taking opportunity to try dissuading me to trying to win over the world to be loved by the same sort of people who hate and blaspheme God and Jesus Christ daily.
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Keep it up, I bet you've turned more people towards atheism than christianity.
Read the IQfy sticky and site rules, newbie.
>turn christians away from christianity
If someone can be turned away from Christianity by someone who actually believes God's Word, they were never Christians in the first place.
If people who believe in evolution aren't christians, your religion is actually smaller than islam lol.
the pope has already said that evolutionary biology is compatible with the bible, moron.
Most young earth creationists are protestants who either don't care about the pope or think he's the antichrist.
It's not God's perfect words though, Christians claim mosaic authorship and priestly writing on the old testament and the names of the gospels are explicitly the people who traditionally wrote them (probably not the case in any of them).
The gospels explicitly disagree on pretty major points including the nature of Jesus which is why we have all these squabbling groups calling themselves Christians
The entire thing is a very sad middle eastern millenarian cult comparable to scientology
>no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Yet Abraham became God's friend and made an everlasting pact with him and never knew who Jesus was.
Daily prayer to Goddesses and Gods of the Protestants will do it.
There is only one God.
Just worship the God of Abraham, he is the only God who actually answers prayer and shows real sings and wonders in your life. When you worship the the Holy Yahweh you dont have to have blind faith for too long because it wont take long before you actually start experiencing him.
Bow down to the Most High God every day and bless him. It's not like you are betraying your faith either if you do and being unfaithful to your god since Jesus claims to be his son anyways, so why wouldn't you want to go directly to the source?
If the person who you worship, claimed to worship someone else, then why wouldn't you want to worship the one who he worshipped?
Worship God alone. Bless his name, praise him daily. Pray only to him, you do not need unnecessary middle men. God is p2p.
3 Goddesses and 7 Gods will help.
You need Islam in your life, all this talk about christcuckery rings false. You are starting to revert to your true state of a muslim warrior
>Muslims refer to converts as "reverts"
Just shows the dishonesty of that false religion. Their idea of heaven is just a brothel too, it's just a hedonist religion.
Muslims only have one God to work with tho. Catholics have many Goddesses.
have a nice day, my man.
cowboy up
It's time to accept those are only stories of a time mankind did not understand the world thus conjured tales of fantastical beings representing nature and themselves.
You can live a meaningful life while keeping in mind what those tales meant to express and decide if they're worth taking into consideration in your daily life.
It's time to focus on yourself, what you want to be and do instead of what others tell you to be and do. Could be the same, could be different. If you are strong enough to be your own agent you shall know what ideals to pursue and actively do so.
I have the worst thoughts enter my mind every day and what the Lord has given me is this prayer
Lord, I take these thoughts captive and submit them to the obedience of Christ to be pounded to sand, blown away as far as the east is from the west and send them to the bottom of the sea of your forgetfulness. I pray in Jesus name, amen.
Just leave anon, drop Christianity. If you need advice on how to adjust I’ll help you. Getting lied to like that and having to adjust can be a little tough.
You are realizing that you are watching shadows on the wall.
Let yourself awaken.
The way I (a non-religious person) look at it, and it causes minimal cognitive dissonance, is if the God described in the Bible exists, or any God like Him does, He made me a doubter. It would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. So I march on doubting but secretly believing but also not believing. Nothing more to ruminate about. What matters is how you act, just like Batman Begins. Be a billionaire who throws it all away to train karate with Tibetan criminals.
But how you act is obviously determined by how you think and what you believe. So choose to have faith in goodness if you can. Goodness was personified by Jesus. So have faith in Jesus or else. But doubt the rest. And also that.
What is causing you to feel disgusted with yourself? Is it the doubt or something else?
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