Final Q: Part 3: Atheists and the Bible?

Question

When you had doubts in the Bible, did you have other people pray for you or did you pray for faith on your own?

Did you give your doubts and burdens to God or did you try to gain your faith back on your own reading?

Were you deeply involved in a good, spiritually alive Church?

Answer 1

I had multiple prayer groups that I was involved with and attended numerous retreats.

I constantly was praying, and others were praying, for God to renew and refresh me and restore my faith.

Considering I was part of a church with multiple prayer groups and that held numerous retreats, I'd call it a good, spiritually alive Church.


To put it bluntly -- I fought tooth and nail to do absolutely everything I could do to meet God even the miniscule part way I believed a human could go, and for years of the struggle, I maintained absolute faith that God had a reason for my struggle and that he'd be along any day to end it and restore my faith and say, "Well done, Good and Faithful Servant."

Never happened though.

Answer 2

To the believers and the Non-believers

When you have doubts it's ok.
People have doubt all the time and try to find answers by finding them through whatever source they feel fit or sometimes someone might just ring by with the answer even when the one giving the answer doesn't even know he or she has done it.
You could be sitting somewhere quite around people you don't even know and hear or see something done or said and learn on your own that it is the answer.
Also if you have a true mind of your own you can give your mind what you think might be the right answer.

Like for instance I thought of this one on my own:
Most religions think that God can do anything
Well they all of the sudden open up their minds to a whole new light when I say this.

If God can do anything then why can't he make everyone believe in him?
I ask this question because people take the bible to literally
my whole point is to make believers and non-believers see other possibilitys.
Then i answer:
Because he gave everyone the power of freewill.

But the point of my question wasn't to answer it ,but to make them relize that God can't do everything.
FACT

Answer 3

Prayer is good in all forms. Whether people pray for you or you pray to God yourself. He hears every prayer. Once we pray we need to listen for an answer. If our prayer lines up with the bible often times it will be granted, either in the near future or further on. If it does not line up with the bible the answer will be "no".
We are told to give our burdens over to the Lord. Mat 11:28. "Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest." It helps to not go through things alone!
I believe new Christians need to be in an alive church. However, mature Christians do not need lively churches because they are more strong in their faith. I feel mature Christians can help spark new life into churches that are dead, and let's be honest, dead churches are out there.

Answer 4

I was carted to church every week. I never really believed it any more than I believed in Santa. Other people could pray all they want. Prayer doesn't work.

The Bible is factually wrong about how humans and the Earth got here, the flood, the shape of the Earth, the way the stars are in the sky, the ability of the stars to fall from the sky and so on.

If you think anyone praying would have changed my thinking at all, you are very very mistaken.

Answer 5

"did you have other people pray for you or did you pray for faith on your own?"
You're asking how delusional we were when we were Xians? Once I realized how silly the whole idea was I stopped believing in the fairy tale. At that point, I'd be a moron to keep praying (ie talking to myself) and expecting results.

"Were you deeply involved in a good, spiritually alive Church?"
That's a paradox. There's nothing good or spiritually alive about a church. It's an institution designed to control the unwashed masses.

Answer 6

I never had any doubts, I know some things are hard to grasp, and hard for our little pea brains to understand, first of all you must understand that nothing is impossible with God. He has a plan and everything is going as He planed. He can use you if will let Him. The greatest peace that I have ever had was letting lead me and use me.

Answer 7

To only about all those people who stated that the recent testomony has in basic terms secondary sources -- you attempt to prepare a well-liked time-honored to an historic rfile. practically all the earliest writings approximately historic human beings on the time of Jesus have been secondary sources. The earliest extant writing approximately Alexander the super dates from 4 hundred years after his death. nonetheless, credible historians evaluate that writing to have validity. Plus, Paul began writing in basic terms 2 many years after the death of Jesus, and referenced the attention witnesses with whom he grew to become into in my opinion familiar -- maximum severely, Peter. He additionally names numerous eyewitnesses and tells his early readers to flow inspect his tale for truthfulness. the recent testomony has consistently been valid, historic information of the existence of Jesus. it is only that now, countless the Christ-mythers are seeing their very own logical fallacies in denying this actuality. So, at the same time as i does not say it is an "epic win," i could say it is a minimum of a step interior the marvelous course.

Answer 8

Both, I've even done a spiritual revival.

Both.

Is this a trick question?? I was a leader in the youth, helped out in the childrens ministries, a church camp counseler, and if you dont know much about some denominational churches they have like an altar worship dance team....i was on that.

any more?

Answer 9

I did my work and researched it. I found out that God is right after all and my "doubts" were actually not knowing something about what God had revealed of Himself. They had nothing to do with what really is.

Answer 10

Sorry this question does not apply to me in the slightest. Thank you though I did enjoy your questions. I have reason to believe you may just be one of the few "real christians" I keep hearing about.
Peace