what is your age and why do you believe? or why not?
2007-06-03 19:22:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I knew what life was like 50 years ago. Everyone was innocent. The word sex never entered conversation. Neither did fornication nor adultery. My uncle had an affair and no one spoke to him again. we have seen life deteriorate into degenerate degradation. There were no half nude commercials..no love-making on screen.
We have more faith because we have seen God's hand at work. We have seen miracles and seemingly punishments. Men and women do reap what they sow.
This coming generation has for the most part no respect, no religion, no sense of urgency about the times we are living in.
They have always been spoiled. No one made them get a switch or a belt .
Any amount of faith is more than the younger ones.
So yes we do have more faith.**
2007-06-03 19:46:34 · answer #1 · answered by debbie2243 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To say yes or no is to generalize.
Some people become more jaded as they go on, so their faith wavers. Some people are desperate for some kind of false assurance that they will be in a happy place when they die, so their faith is illegitimate. Some people have tried many things but just choose the one that fits some part of their life or needs/desires best, so that, too, is illegitimate. And some people ignore the fact that it is faith, not certainty, so they only fool themselves and lose their faith.
On the other hand, supposedly some people feel a closer relationship to this "God," whatever its definition may be. Whether the God of Christianity or the God that is the permanence in all things as in Buddhism - or anything in-between - people sometimes seem to move further towards what they believe.
2007-06-04 02:41:20 · answer #2 · answered by Skye 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to assume that you are saying that younger people appear to have more faith than older people and that there are more younger people around with faith than older. This is true. I am an OAP. Younger people are far more enthusiastic about their faith than older people most of whom have lost their initial enthusiasm and go about their faith quietly and unnoticed. Second, if you read the parable of sower (Matthew 13:3) it explains how many people lose their faith for a variety of reasons and the numbers with faith decrease over the years.
Why am I a believer? It was an undeserved and unrequested gift from God to someone who hated him.
2007-06-04 02:41:58 · answer #3 · answered by cheir 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am 32 yrs old and my faith grows stronger the older I get. In my experience the closer people are to death, the more they want to learn about God.
2007-06-04 02:32:56 · answer #4 · answered by ronnad1975 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe older people have more faith because they have tried the other stuff and then came back to God and then have a certainty about being faithful this time around and plus they are getting older and not younger and it would be foolish to throw away a free get out of hell card
2007-06-04 02:27:16 · answer #5 · answered by truely human 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
"Grace" - Yet another brilliant pascalian. She can't follow directions either, since she gave no age.
I'm 59. I abandoned episcopalianism in my late teens, and spent the next 40 yrs being proved justified for doing so.
"Get out of hell free" card. What a moron!
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2007-06-04 02:33:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋