Do you believe in God the way you did in childhood?

Question

I have a bit of faith left but it's hard can God really give anything to the modern world or is it just tall tales to keep us from missbehaving as kids?

Answer 1

that is indeed a very good question. I've always wondered if God is in fact just another "fairy tale" or "mother goose" story that doesn't stop as you enter adulthood? It is too much for me to think about!

Answer 2

I have a stronger faith now.

I don't think the God I believed in as a child can offer anything to the modern world because I had a very childish understanding of Him.

I think the difference is that my belief now is my own. When I was a kid I believed because my parents did. It was like maths: I had nothing to disagree with it, so I just learnt the stuff on a Sunday then went home and didn't really use it (although I always prayed about bad dreams, I think I realised that my unconciousness is somewhere that only He can take charge of). Once I was older and things began to question, or make me question, my faith, I lost a bit. And then, to cut a long story short, I started to experience God in my own life and understood more about Him.

I really believe that the God which I 'understand' now has everything to offer the world, much more than just a story or a method of punishment.

Answer 3

For me the opposite applies, As a child I needed a reasonable explanation for everything, and god certainly didn't answer the how and why's all the time. As a result I became a sponge for knowledge, I won't bore you with details but I am an industrial sized vault of semi useless facts.

It wasn't until my adulthood that I realized that not everything can be answered with science. But if you take a dash of science and add a sprinkle of God with a healthy dose of free will and common science combined, then things seem to make a bit more sense in the long run.

Answer 4

I believe the same way I did when I was a child. God wants us all to have child like faith. It is all in the up bringing The Bible tells us to train a child in the way it should go and when it is old it will not depart from it. The good thing about this is you stray sometimes just like a child but you always find your way back home.

Answer 5

I've always believed in God, and was taught about him by my parents because they know and love God, and wanted to teach me what they believed about God from the bible, not because they were using it to make me behave. I've believed in God because, as things like cars and houses don't just make themselves, it's obvious that neither would this earth just make itself. As I became an adult I've still believed this.

However, when I was 21 I actually came to know and love God myself! He's so wonderful and far better than anything. He is what has been missing from my life. This modern world often looks for the best technology or most dramatic stunts and events that can be put in films or tv, but God is much better than this! He's all powerful, but also loves us so much.

Anyone can come to know and love God at any age, but we need to realise that we need Jesus to take the punishment for our sinfulness when he died on the cross. But it's not enough to have head knowledge, there's got to be a change in our heart too.

Answer 6

No, I now believe in God differently than when I was a child. As a child I believed that God was a being. An old guy with a long white beard and flowing robes sitting in a throne in some heaven in outer space somewhere.

I now know that God is really the formless, genderless, omnipresent, eternal energy source which is the process of life itself.

I now know that each soul, each one of us is an individuation of God, created of the same matter as God. Together we are the sum (son) total of God.

Answer 7

I believe in God more each day because the end is near and then there will be a new beginning where there will be no suffering for those who choose to be His children. If your faith is failing, try and get hold of the book called "the heavenly man" by brother Yun. This is a auto-biography of a chinese man who had no Christian up bringing but who went through trials in life we will never know because he believed in Jesus Christ.

Answer 8

I went through some awful, horrible things as a child and--after a certain point--decided God could not possibly exsist. I had no faith whatsoever. While I can't say I go to church every Sunday (honestly, maybe once a year), I do have faith again. I couldn't have survived the things I've been through without His help.

Answer 9

I have more faith in God since my childhood. Mainly because I almost died 3 years ago (in a coma on life support for 7 days). When I awoke and realized how close I came to leaving this world, I realized just how precious it is and how God must have a plan for me since it wasn't my time to go.

I live by the golden rule:

"Do unto others as you would have them do to you". Luke 6:31

Answer 10

No.

When I was a child, I believed in God because Mommy told me we were Christians, and that's what Christians do.

Now I believe in God because I can't refuse to believe in something that's been such an influencial presence in my life. I may not be the best Christian, and certainly not one to model your children after, however my belief in God stems from faith first, and answered prayers second.

When you have a personal relationship with God, what people tell you that you're supposed to believe, or how you're supposed to worship stops mattering. God knows your heart, and if your eyes aren't blinded by doubt, you'll see his workings all around you.

Answer 11

Not at all. Since adulthood I have questioned this completely and found my belief in God did not give me satisfaction or peace of mind. I read more widely, travelled far, studied other religions/ present New Age ideas , met many sages, so called enlightened people etc. I found that all beliefs are basically the same, just beliefs. None is proven. Not one. Realising this enables me to live more freely.