Is it hard for you to beleive in the lord?? If so state your reasonings. . .?

Answer 1

I was bad! Then I repented of my sins! Now I am far from perfect !BUT forgiven!

Answer 2

I was raised in a Christian home, but I began to question my faith as a teenager and still do to this day. I realize that a part of believing is having faith, but I feel like you need to have faith for all the things that make no sense. For example:

#1- When we live a life of evil and die, we go to hell, which is a lake of fire. Now, if it's not my body and only my spirit that goes, how can fire torture me?
#2- After the apocolypse, when all the believers are raised up to heaven, the earth will be run by the anti-christ and there will be plagues and disease, etc. After all these people just mysteriously disappear at once, wouldn't it be common sense to then believe the bible and therefore go to heaven? So everyone, after the apocolypse, basically doesn't have to have faith (because it's already been proven) and gets a free pas to heaven? So what if there's war? So what if you starve? So what if the sun burns you and gives you boils? YOU'RE GOING TO HEAVEN!
#3- Anyone who has ever studied a different language knows that it's impossible to interpret anything word for word. The meanings and emphasis of things get changed in the translation. And the bible has been printed and reprinted HOW many times? How can you be sure that the version you're reading is word for word what Christ intended? That sure leaves a lot of room for error.
#4- I once asked my brother about revelations and the multi-headed beings, basically wanting to know how there could be such a creature. He said, "Well, it's symbollic. You can't take it literally." Well then how can you know that other parts of the bible aren't symbollic? Who first decided what is and what isn't?
#5- Civilizations all through history have made up religions to explain the unexplainable. Can you really be sure that any religion wasn't founded just to control the masses? To keep people from going into mass hysteria?

Answer 3

I don't believe in the Christian Lord or God. It just isn't for me. I can't believe in even half of the bible, yes I have read it. I have seen so many people that go home after church and beat their kids or cuss up a storm or just do things that they aren't supposed to do. I mean look at all those that call themselves Christian but don't care if adultry is committed. Isn't that one of the big ten? They say man makes mistakes but then wants to throw stones and send people into damnation for homosexuality. It is either a sin or it isn't. They are all supposed to be bad and yet some just don't care. They would rather have some man sleep around on his wife, or a wife sleep around on her husband, than to see a homosexual. Yet it is all called adultery according to the questions asked here. So one form of adultery isn't bad if it is with someone of the opposite sex? I think not. Stop with the double standards already. In my beliefs, no matter who it is, if it is a sin then it is a sin.

Answer 4

It's not hard for me to believe in a God, no. It is hard for me to believe in most peoples interpretation of God. When someone believes it's OK to treat others badly because it's "God's Will" or they are percieved to be going against that, it makes me question others interpreation of God. I believe God is love, pure and simple, and that Humanity has twisted this message so much that the people who claim to represent God the most, have strayed so far away from this message, that, if they were to come to a true understanding of God, they would be ashamed. That said, our experience here is to learn to love each other and God. What we do that turns us away from that, causes pain, and eventually turns us back towards God. It may take many lives. I'm a liberal, gay, man, which in a lot of "religious" eyes makes me the "evil one". I look at it as, I chose this before I was born, to learn a lesson. Maybe I was an ignorant bigot in my last life, and in this one I needed to learn tolerance. I don't know this is just my guess.

Why I believe in God, because there is so much about our existence that can not be explained by us being bags of chemicals and water, and the connection between people in a fundamental way can not be explained, the answer that we are seeking to learn how to love, strikes me as the most plausible.

Answer 5

1. The Bible wasn't spiritually inspired
2. Israelis were so uncreative back in the BCs stealing from the Egyptians
3.Why is so hard for people to realize that when they're dead they just decay, there's no party afterward
4.Is God racist? Why'd all the good stuff happen in the Middle East?
5. What about the Africans? Native Americans? Caucasians? Asians? They have to wait for word to spread?

Answer 6

1. Why He must create us in earth, test us with devils then take us to heaven. If He could read our heart and predicted the future. Just never create the evil human.
2. Why He give us free choices, If anyone who act the opposite will only go to hell. Just make us a robots as angel and be a "Yes Sir! " one, so no need to lose time to create hell.
3. Lord is so kind, but why Lord generate so many natural disaster and kill many people plus many innocet babies. People cry by the lost of their lovely. And Child cry losing their parents. Even the Church (His home) could be destroyed. What Kind of Lord's plan that need so many blood, tears and lifes? Just like another mithology Gods of greek.
4. If Lords is better than human? why He could get anger and hate to humans that don't trust Him. Like a less controled selfish person. There are a better humans that love the other even other hurt him. Why God lose from some human in selfcontrol?
5. Why He just stay in heaven ? not show Himself to all the human on world on a live show on TV. Seing is believing, isn't it ? there will be many human will be His follower, If He do it. Me too maybe.
6. Why He let so many religions growth on earth? Why don't just one religion and one sect? so there will be no one kill each other or hate each other. Like what people do in middleeast, killing each other and bombing like animals.
7. If we do evil about 80 years of life why we must stay in hell for eternity. and how about a 5 years old child that die, why they stay in heaven for eternal? If that so just make all the human life just for 5 years. it will be easy to forget their sin.

And more why again... for not to believe, if you want

Answer 7

Many times because humans mar His image, His intentions, and pretty much everything. Now it's very hard to discern if it's man speaking or the Holy Spirit. There's a lot of fraud/murder going on out there in the "name of the lord"

Answer 8

As I have grown older I have found it easier to live for the Lord. I never denied my faith in God but I wasn't living as a good witness either.I know of so many times that I should have been witnessing and I was caught up in the world's activities.I asked God for forgiveness since then. It was hard to think of all of it.So I asked Him to forgive those that I couldn't remember also.What a relief to let those burdens go!

Answer 9

Cortez, Columbus, Amerigo, just to name a few.
And while on the subject of the "holocaust" and other denials, who would deny that the armour and the bible lay not far from the 'hearts of men' in the battle to extract all the Gold from the lands of the "natives" by the "Lord's" people.

(not a question)

Answer 10

Yes its hard to believe in something that no one can prove, that completely and totally goes against what has been proven as fact (you know the whole dinosaurs lived millions of years ago before man existed thing). God is a falacy that was pushed on the uneducated masses to keep them in line and to justify mass homicide on a near global level for those in power that were "enlightened." Of course for those that are weak minded and like to follow the rest of the flock of sheep being led to the slaughter, by all means go for it! To those not willing to accept that there are other things that are spiritual than your "god" you blaspheme those of us that dont believe and say we are going to "hell" yet your so called religion has whole heartedly embraced so many Pagan holidays and practices its not even funny.

Answer 11

It is as hard for me to believe in the lord as it is for you to believe in Santa Claus. Christianity is a religion that addresses people's fear of death, and their quest for Justice against what they percieve as bad people. Unfortunatly, it is all based on a fantasy. There has been no scientifically proven record of anyone returning from an afterlife to discuss what happens after one dies. There are only legends and wishful thinking.