Do you know anyone who lost their faith in god? What happened?

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

I lost any faith I had when I was about 13. Previously I'd gotten all excited about religion and started reading the Bible, watching Fundamentalist TV shows about revelations, and thinking of becoming a priest. But instead I started to think that there is something really wrong with this story, full of plot holes, so old as to be irrelevant to me. And I thought about all the other mythologies that have come and gone and couldn't see how this one was any different. No, I chose reason over faith, life over death, and continue to do so to this day.

Answer 3

Not so much my faith- but my growing in faith.
I had a very strong calling for many years and worked on my relationship with Him. It got to a stand still that lasted almost 2 years. I was actually in agony of what He wanted me to do next and not finding the sign leading the way. It ended up being something that I, painfully, had to let go of. I was so close- but a million miles away.
It's something I very much regret never happened.

Answer 4

Yes. My Buddhist friend. I saw her tonight actually, and she lost her faith in God 29 years ago when her mum died of a brain tumour. She found Nichiren Buddhism 2 years later and has never looked back. She said the worst thing was that NO ONE from the church - not even the vicar (who was a personal family friend) went to visit her mum in hospital! Bless her!

Answer 5

I lost my faith in god last year.

I am very angry with myself for being so gullible over the years.

I realised that the church (all denominations) is a thing of this world only -- corrupt, hypercritical, abusive, snobbish, self-first, evil leaders, lying leaders, scapegoating, sheer filth.

If there is a god beyond the things of this world then that god is nothing to do with the church.

Answer 6

Me. And I'm better off for it.

No more guilt over what my father or ancestors might have done. No more wasted Sundays. No more superstition. No more waiting around hoping some invisible sky-fairy will make everything okay. No fear of demons or devils.

Asking questions and getting answers based on facts and evidence is far more satisfying than closing the eyes and trying to pretend the world is something other than what it is.

Answer 7

I lost my faith in the idea of God when I was in high school. I was trying to figure out how Christianity could possibly be true if it believed that people who live wonderful lives helping others will go to hell if they do not believe in Jesus. The answer came to me from my Physics teacher. He was a deacon in the local church and one day I asked him that question. He thought for a second and asked me if I drove a car. I told him yes I did, that I drove a Camaro. He said okay, so let's say you’re sitting in your Camaro, you've got gas in the tank, a huge engine, racing tires, a nice stereo playing your favorite song, the windows are down and you’re ready to ride. So you put your foot on the clutch, drop it into first gear.... but wait, you have no steering wheel... Can you drive that wonderful Camaro of yours?

The point he was getting at is that sometimes you can have almost everything right, but if you’re missing that one important part, you've still got nothing.

He also told me that no one can truly have faith if they've never questioned it. You have to question your faith and seek answers. It's how we grow, how we learn more and essentially how we strengthen that faith.

Bottom line, if you lost faith, God will find you. You just have to let Him.

Answer 8

Of the 4 siblings in my family, 3 of us have. An atheist brother, an agnostic bro, me the happy-go-lucky Wiccan, and our sister believes in God.

Don't know the reasons for my brothers' conversion, but mine was based mostly on language study. I know how hard it is to translate one sentence perfectly. So forget about translating an entire book (BIble) multiple times over thousands of years! I also dislike strongly the Old Testament image of God, vengeful and spiteful.

Answer 9

Yes when they died they went to hell. But then again looking at the other answers we all assume we are talking about the Christian God. What about Mohammahed, Budda etc. Well those people who lost their faith in those gods bacame more enlightened than they previously were. No longer were they worshipping a graven image. Or perhaps are we talking about the god of self. Well that person realised that that was a false god and continued on the search for the truth.

I guess the answer is simple. find the truth and it will set you free.

Given that the person has used lower case g I can only assume you're asking a question about the non-christian gods. So to answer your question that person finds freedom.........

Answer 10

You know,
In almost all of us, that can or will happen sometimes in our lives in the very wicked and tempting world Satan has.
I've seen them lose faith and never come back. Some with self justification and some that just doesn't care anymore.

But the one that come back make you joyous to see.

Luke 15:11-24

Answer 11

Yes, I know a lot of people that have lost their faith in God. Many of them are having a hard time just living day by day. They seem depressed and don't want to do anything. They have a very dull life.