Do you ever have doubts in your religion or faith?

Question

If so,is it often, occasionally or not at all?

Answer 1

Having the same or similar doubts ought to be a signal that there is a basic flaw somewhere in your belief.

Did you know that when you ask or are asked a question beginning with thew word "why" that you will try very hard to supply an answer - right or wrong - just to end the echoing nag, nag, nag of the open question.

Here's one: Why do I allow myself to return to the same flawed belief by renewing my faith if I know that I will only come to doubt it again?

The better question would be "How can I keep myself from being entrenched in the same old doubtful belief?"

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Answer 2

No, Never, because there is no reason for it.
I believe in God, & that he directed the writing of the Bible, which is a guidebook for his followers today, along with the help he gives his 'honest-to-goodness' followers via his holy spirit. I noticed a few of your other recent comments, so am posting links to some online excellent articles for your consideration ...

True Teachings--Where Can You Find Them?
- True Teachings That Please God
- - How Old?
- - How Organized?
- - Can You Trust the Bible?
- - What Does the Bible Teach?
- - What Will You Do?
http://watchtower.org/e/20050715/article_01.htm

The following experience will probably interest you ...

Why I Believe the Bible
--A Nuclear Scientist Tells His Story
http://watchtower.org/e/20040122a/article_01.htm

However, I ONCE had Very Strong misgivings! The behavior of all the religions I was aware of at that time, were claiming to be servants of one god or another, but none that I could see was living up to their claims. I began asking questions, & was directed to ask a relative who was able to answer them, even showing them to me in the Bible. I chose to study the Bible further, and have never regretted it. I had read enough of the Bible before, to see that much of what I had been taught by 'my' then-church, clearly went against what the Bible actually says. I have never found such discrepancies in my chosen/current faith. Examples of what was so obviously wrong with my former faith is expounded in :

The End of False Religion Is Near!
> What Is False Religion?
- How Will It End?
- How Will You Be Affected?
http://www.watchtower.org/e/kn37/article_01.htm

By comparison ...

True Christianity Is Flourishing ...
- The Basis for Christian Unity
- Why Churches Are Divided
- True Christians Are Still United
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2004/3/1/article_02.htm
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Answer 3

I am atheist. I was baptized Catholic when I was still a baby and brainwashed into thinking the bible was the truth. Then as I became older and could think for myself I found that there was no truth in it. Science has in fact proven the opposite. As an atheist I have doubts about everything that religion has to offer although I agree with Buddhism. If science can disprove anything in Buddhism then science wins and those beliefs are changed.

Answer 4

all the time. true spiritually lives OUTSIDE the box of space and time and in an open realm in a place where absolutes are unattainable.... so we fluctuate.

Doubts or not if I CONTINUE to follow the tenets of MY FAITH then I DO HAVE FAITH regardless whether I FEEL IT or NOT. If I am walking the walk then I AM faithful... even If I am filled with doubt and insecurity.

Feeling happy joy lalala is NOT what faith is. It is an affliction called TRIUMPHALISM where a person expects to be perfect. It is OKAY to feel at ease and that feeling is a great reward from God for our FAITHFULLNESS

Answer 5

while you're afraid of Hell, then you definately suspect in Hell. in my opinion, i've got faith in reincarnation. Hell for me is coming back as a tree. an unpleasant one. interior the process the wasteland with out different residing issues around. I went throughout the religion factor, too. maximum folk do to 3 degree or yet another. try getting to know different religions. learn holy books, attend centers and rituals, confer with human beings on the information superhighway. you will possibly no longer have chanced on a tournament yet. shop looking. There are way better than the two and merely approximately infinate adjustments. i ultimately settled on a style of uncomplicated Paganism. yet now i want to renowned approximately all religions. Am at present hoping to locate somebody to describe Hinduism to me.

Answer 6

Is doubt good? No. Doubt is to your spirit what pain is to your body. Pain is a warning, a signal that something is wrong. It does not mean you are dead. It just means that something is wrong.

If you have doubts and you are truly a born again child of God, you are suffering from some spiritual sickness. All Christians doubt from time to time. A woman once told Dwight L. Moody she had been saved for 25 years and never had a doubt. He said, "I doubt you're saved."

I have doubted many times in my life, but God always brings me back. I think doubting is a way to strengthen your faith, becasue once those questions come up, they get answered, and you have a better understanding of why you believe what you believe

Answer 7

Yes, but pretty rarely these days. When I first became a Christian I had to work through loads of doubts, and when I converted to Catholicism there were a few new doubts to work through, but after several years of this the doubts have become few and far between.

Answer 8

I have no doubts at all now-- but in the early years of my walk with the Lord, I did,. I think it is normal and common. Now, after years of seeing the Lord work, feeling His presence in a way that is impossible to describe, answered prayer and unmistakable leading from Him--,y doubts are com pletely gone.

Answer 9

Sometimes I am unsure about the meaning of something in the bible. I never have doubts that the bible is the inspired word of God. This wasn't always true, I have been a bible student for ten years. It didn't happen overnight, but I did come to trust His word as true. That is a wonderful place to reach, by the way, and I'm grateful to God for His wisdom and the assurance He has developed within me.

Answer 10

yes.

Its kind of like riding a motorcycle or a marathon. Its the uncertaincies that make it fun. Think about riding the tea cups at disney land, people have done that for years it does the same thing over and over again....when you go to disney how many times do you think you'll ride the tea cups? Once. its not fun any more.

Everything worth something will be uncertain anc relate to a risk that is what make it valuable once you obtain it or as you are obtaining it.

Or something like that.