Questioning my faith...?

[Truth_Seeker]

Hello, I'm a Christian, and have recently started to question my faith. I don't know why, I just started to. It's not like I want to, but I can't seem to help it. The stuff I'm learning in school is opening my mind I guess. And I'm starting to learn more about the world...and starting to pay attention to politics.
What I don't get is why gay couples aren't allowed to marry. It doesn't make sense. I thought Jesus loved everybody...
And why do people say atheists have no morals and that they are going to hell, one of my best friends is an atheist, and she's the nicest person I've ever met, she doesn't deserve that.
I'm really scared, and I don't want Jesus to be disappointed in me. I still love, but I just don't understand all of it like I used to.
I just need to be sure of things.

[Matthew Hopkins]

Re: Questioning my faith...?

Young woman, can you hear that whispering? That soft, reasonable voice, asking you all these 'questions'?

THAT IS THE VOICE OF SATAN, MISSY.

"1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. 3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’”

5 Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written:

‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’
and,

‘In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’”
7 Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’"

8 Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9 And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”

10 Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’”[e]

11 Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him."

Matthew 4:1-11

You say you are a Christian? Well then you KNOW the answers to these 'questions'.

Read these forums, you will find the answers you seek.

YBIC

[Pastor Ed Lowman]

Re: Questioning my faith...?

Hello, I'm a Christian, and have recently started to question my faith. I don't know why, I just started to. It's not like I want to, but I can't seem to help it.

Yes, you can. It's called a trial of Satan, and you can beat it (see Luke 8:1-15). Read this verse over and over and pray it: "Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief." (Mark 9:24)

The stuff I'm learning in school is opening my mind I guess. And I'm starting to learn more about the world...and starting to pay attention to politics.

But it is closing your mind to The Truth™. It is poisoning your soul. Don't listen to influences of Satan. Shut your eyes and close your ears (literally if you have to). And we are to hate the world, not love it (I John 2:15).

What I don't get is why gay couples aren't allowed to marry. It doesn't make sense.

What need have they of marriage when God says they are to die? (Lev. 18:22; Romans 1:26-27; Jude 7)

I thought Jesus loved everybody...

And why do people say atheists have no morals and that they are going to hell, one of my best friends is an atheist, and she's the nicest person I've ever met, she doesn't deserve that.

Doesn't matter at all. Hebrews 11:6 says: "Without faith, it is impossible to please God."

I'm really scared, and I don't want Jesus to be disappointed in me. I still love, but I just don't understand all of it like I used to.

He probably already is...if you have given up (see Hebrews 6:4-6).

I just need to be sure of things.

No, you must have faith (Luke 17:6; Hebrews 11:1).

Sounds like you need to pray and study hard and ask yourself where you stand.

I will pray for you.

Yours in Him,

Pastor Ed

[James Hutchins]

Re: Questioning my faith...?

You question your faith? Do you think God is wishy-washy? Friend, either you are all in or all out. There are no 'do-overs' or 'give-backs'. You cannot stand the the edge of Hell and say "I change my mind". Being involved with God is a commitment.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Questioning my faith...?

Hello, I'm a Christian, and have recently started to question my faith. I don't know why, I just started to. It's not like I want to, but I can't seem to help it. The stuff I'm learning in school is opening my mind I guess. And I'm starting to learn more about the world...and starting to pay attention to politics.
What I don't get is why gay couples aren't allowed to marry. It doesn't make sense. I thought Jesus loved everybody...
And why do people say atheists have no morals and that they are going to hell, one of my best friends is an atheist, and she's the nicest person I've ever met, she doesn't deserve that.
I'm really scared, and I don't want Jesus to be disappointed in me. I still love, but I just don't understand all of it like I used to.
I just need to be sure of things.

Son, if you're a Christian then I'm the King of Kansas City.

[Redeemed Papist]

Re: Questioning my faith...?

Read your Bible. Does it look like the work of ignorant savages making stuff up because they are afraid of dying? Does it look like stuff made up by ignorant savages to terrify people into accepting a narrow world view of permissible actions? Does it look like stuff made up by ignorant savages to stifle investigation and just get their subordinates to accept what authority figures state without question?

Of course it doesn't! It's clearly the perfect and coherent word of God instructing us on the best way to live our lives for all time. And that, my friend, is all you need to do to keep your faith. Read the Bible, ask yourself those questions the atheists want you to ask yourself, and come up with the only possible answer. Do that, and you'll believe in God as much as I do.

[Truth_Seeker]

Re: Questioning my faith...?

Do you think God is wishy-washy?

Well, after reading the Bible, God was incredibly angry at us in the Old Testament, and then in the New Testament he came down to us to die for us in human form to show us that he loved us. So I guess I can see where some might call God "wishy-washy." I'm not saying he is, just that I can see where others might think that.

You question your faith?

Is that a bad thing? Shouldn't everyone do that? Then when they found no better answers then their faith itself, they know for sure that it is right.

Read your Bible. Does it look like the work of ignorant savages making stuff up because they are afraid of dying? Does it look like stuff made up by ignorant savages to terrify people into accepting a narrow world view of permissible actions? Does it look like stuff made up by ignorant savages to stifle investigation and just get their subordinates to accept what authority figures state without question?

Well, we actually don't know exactly what those people thought when they wrote it. They could have been savages, but then again, we're humans so I doubt it.

Of course it doesn't! It's clearly the perfect and coherent word of God instructing us on the best way to live our lives for all time. And that, my friend, is all you need to do to keep your faith. Read the Bible, ask yourself those questions the atheists want you to ask yourself, and come up with the only possible answer. Do that, and you'll believe in God as much as I do.

It's God's word written down by men, especially any version translated into another language. God didn't do the translating, humans did. But then again, I am getting technical here, haha.

What need have they of marriage when God says they are to die? (Lev. 18:22; Romans 1:26-27; Jude 7)

But that is what I don't get, the other things listed as abominations in Leviticus are things like mixing fabrics, eating shellfish...so why are those still practised. I don't understand. They are humans too, why do they have to die? What about Jesus' 11th Commandment?

He probably already is...if you have given up (see Hebrews 6:4-6).

But I haven't given up. I don't want to give up, I just want help.

I will pray for you.

Thank you sir, I will pray for myself and try to correct all this.

[Levi Jones]

Re: Questioning my faith...?

Well, after reading the Bible, God was incredibly angry at us in the Old Testament, and then in the New Testament he came down to us to die for us in human form to show us that he loved us.

Exactly. Jesus came as God in human form that He might temporarily die for us to make us free from sin. At the same time, if you still sin you're going to hell.

So I guess I can see where some might call God "wishy-washy." I'm not saying he is, just that I can see where others might think that.

How dare you call the Bible contradictory! God has every right to change His mind. He doesn't owe you anything, but you owe Him everything. If it wasn't for God, you wouldn't be here now.
So if He changes His mind, who are you to argue the gift? Just get with the program and obey or else.

Is that a bad thing? Shouldn't everyone do that? Then when they found no better answers then their faith itself, they know for sure that it is right.

Of course it is a bad thing to question your faith. If you do that you might be lost from our numbers. You might start questioning things like politics and start voting democrat even!

It's God's word written down by men, especially any version translated into another language. God didn't do the translating, humans did. But then again, I am getting technical here, haha.

Yes you are getting technical. Do you think God is so weak that He cannot preserve His words to man in a clear easy to read manner? Should we all be theologians just to understand it?

But that is what I don't get, the other things listed as abominations in Leviticus are things like mixing fabrics, eating shellfish...so why are those still practised. I don't understand. They are humans too, why do they have to die?

You are confused. The New Testament says queers are an abomination too.

1 Corinthians 6:9
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,


Romans 1:26-32

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

What about Jesus' 11th Commandment?

What about it? Jesus was speaking to His apostles. He tells believers to love one another. Look at the very next verse.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

All men, meaning non-believers, will know you are His disciple if you love your fellow believers.

But I haven't given up. I don't want to give up, I just want help.

Good, then God has not fully turned His back on you.

[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: Questioning my faith...?

Is that a bad thing? Shouldn't everyone do that? Then when they found no better answers then their faith itself, they know for sure that it is right.

Friend, doubt is the absence of faith. Faith is a gift. (Ephesians 2:8) Either one accepts a gift from God, or one dismisses it. Which will you do? What kind of person are you deep down? Are you the kind that accuses God of lying and being illogical, or are you the kind that is grateful for His unmerited favor?

Well, we actually don't know exactly what those people thought when they wrote it. They could have been savages, but then again, we're humans so I doubt it.

But then, it doesn't really matter what anyone thought while penning the Word of God. Nor does it matter what anyone thinks while reading it. The only thing that matters is faith and obedience. (Matthew 21:28-31)

Thank you sir, I will pray for myself and try to correct all this.

The LORD created our bodies and souls to be connected, intertwined if you will. If you act in obedience, your soul will also become obedient. For this reason the LORD encourages you to pray, and fast, and tithe. Praying and fasting is something you can do by yourself. You can tithe to a guaranteed True Christian™ church by tithing to Landover Baptist Church. You can email any pastor (their emails are not only linked in the signatures of their posts, but also at the bottom of every page on this forum). Your tithing schedule can be made promptly and for your spiritual benefit. (II Corinthians 9:6) I shall keep you in my prayers as well.

[Pastor Ed Lowman]

Re: Questioning my faith...?

But that is what I don't get, the other things listed as abominations in Leviticus are things like mixing fabrics, eating shellfish...so why are those still practised. I don't understand.

The New Testament reiterates that homos must die (I Cor. 6:9-11; Romans 1:26-32). That's why we must continue the killing as we are able.

The problem is, you don't understand because God doesn't need you to understand. God would have told you if you'd needed to know. But a lot of things don't make sense in the Bible. In fact, sometimes God seems to be very illogical and even anti-logical (Exodus 23:19; Lev. 13:12-13).

But am I going to risk my immortal soul just because I don't understand the how or the why behind his reasoning? No sir, not me.

I hope you will understand that logic is not more important than obedience (see Genesis 22). If God told me to bash an infant's head on the concrete right now for no reason, who I do it? Of course! I'd hope you would too!

YiC,

Pastor Ed

[BaronOB]

Re: Questioning my faith...?

What I don't get is why gay couples aren't allowed to marry.

Because gayness is a sin clearly condemned by God and punished with Hell. So-called gay 'marriage' is an abnormal sexual relationship between two crazy sinners. Go to a True Church, read the Holy Bible ( KJV ) and repent your sins!

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Re: Questioning my faith...?

I thought Jesus loved everybody...

Jesus is God, and God does not love everybody.

Psalm 5:4-5: For thou [art] not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

Romans 9:13: As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

[Yea-tho-we-walk]

Re: Questioning my faith...?

And why do people say atheists have no morals and that they are going to hell, one of my best friends is an atheist, and she's the nicest person I've ever met, she doesn't deserve that.
I'm really scared, and I don't want Jesus to be disappointed in me. I still love, but I just don't understand all of it like I used to.
I just need to be sure of things.

Truth seeker, it's not hard to become a Christian, Jesus made sure that salvation is available to the poorest and meekest. You may be closer than you imagine with your current lifestlye right now, close, but no cigar. The Bible clearly states in James 5:14 about 'annointing' another person with oil. You stated that you have an atheist, lesbian, best friend? I'll bet you and your rug munch, gay lover are already annointing each other with various oils now, correct? At least with your current lifestyle, you should be ready to anniont all comers in your new faith.


But, as you began your new found life with Jesus, you will not not be able to annoint unsupervised (too many problems), but you are to call for "Elders of the Church" for them to watch to see if you are doing it right, which, I, coincidently, am an Elder Member on twenty-four hour call. Before we become friends, approx how much do you weigh? I'm not getting personal, but the info is for the employees here that order supplies to calculate how much oil it will take to, as we Christians call it, "do you".