How awful is it to question your faith? What would make you question your faith?

Question

Lots have answered about questioning faith, but not many have said what would make you question your faith....

Answer 1

So much has happened to me in my life, and I have questioned so much that I doubt anything could shake me now. I have lost everyone in my family to death; my identical twin's death was THE WORST. If I can get through it, I can get through anything.

I have had to have major surgery and had to have a colostomy bag for 4 months....literally, a bag of s hanging from my abdomen.

I have a skin disease.

Nothing would make me question much more.
It all works out. God brought good out of all of it.
I'm cool.

Answer 2

I think I agree with almost everyone here. Intelligence does cause us to question it, but that doesn't mean we all turn away.

What causes me to question it is many, many questions, as well as some distance from the church.

I've been living on my own and I moved to a new city where I didn't have anyone to go to church with. I was at a hard point in my life and was questioning everything around me as a result. One of those things happened to be my faith. Because I was unsure of my faith and kept being confronted with it when I went to church and spoke to the people there, I stopped going.

I think I still believe, although I have some wrinkles to work out. I've been thinking about my relationship to God, among other things. If God is my Father, and I should treat him as I would a Father, with respect, and I am growing up and assuming some of my own responsibility, then should I treat him similarly to how I treat my parents as I become an adult of my own? Should He no longer *tell* me what to do, but *ask* me to do it? Should I be allowed to do things in my life for God without being *expected* to do it?

That's my most recent one, but I think I'll make a question for that. Anyway, I think it's right for people to question their faith from time to time because asking questions about your faith should eventually strengthen your beliefs. ^_^

Answer 3

When the faith doesn't add up to the truth! If you don't question the faith, and go along blindly, just because.....you're just a puppet instead of a thinking person! In the US, Christianity is the religion of choice.. If I were born in the Mid East, my religion would have been Muslim! Why? Because that is what is driven into the people.. Belief"s are not easy to change.. But change is what is needed...All people deserve the chance to live and change if they wish!

Answer 4

I question my faith every time I look at the price of kosher meat! Just kidding. Kind of...

I think it's a good thing to periodically question what one believes and does as a result of that belief. That said, I feel lucky to have been born into a religious culture which typically questions everything, down to minute details.

edit/ response to asker's edit- Seeing children with cancer made me question my faith. Or rather, to question the work involved in keeping my faith.
Life makes me question my faith.

Answer 5

When one questions their faith and reutrns their belief, it makes the faith stronger.
Thinking about the faith and life in general and other faiths/possibilities/religions can make someone question their faith.
Its not awful, its normal i would say. I mean faith is not tangible so its hard to describe its more of feeling in the heart and belief. But beliefs often change, and so faith is questioned.

Answer 6

If my faith is having me believe in something like the flying spaghetti monster, then I'd have to question my faith.

If something is not true or can't be proven by evidence, then even faith make it true - like all religious beliefs...

Here's something you or anyone else can do to have True Faith in - Our Creator and Yourself:

Have UnConditional Love and Peace by accomplishing this:
Create Your Relationship with Our Creator.

UnConditional Love and Peace is the only answer.

Answer 7

It's not awful. I've questioned my faith, and so have most of the religious people that I know. I feel that asking questions is part of the spiritual exploration process. One of the things that is currently raising questions for me about my particular religion is its outmoded views. I'm afraid that I want to be more progressive than my church does, and am not sure how to reconcile it.

Answer 8

You HAVE to question your faith. Otherwise, you end up being like the fundies. A person who is aware of their faith and lives it is much better of a person than a naive person that simply pulls the hat over his/her face (no Joseph Smith pun intended) and refuses to read or discuss any information to the contrary. It makes for a very uncultured person and dangerous fanatic.

http://www.lds-exchange.com

Answer 9

you are wise to examine your religion, many teach doctrines of men see what Jesus said

(Matthew 15:7-9) . . .YOU hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about YOU, when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines. . .

(Colossians 2:8) 8 Look out: perhaps there may be someone who will carry YOU off as his prey through the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary things of the world and not according to Christ. . .


(2 Corinthians 13:5-6) 5 Keep testing whether YOU are in the faith, keep proving what YOU yourselves are. Or do YOU not recognize that Jesus Christ is in union with YOU? Unless YOU are disapproved. 6 I truly hope YOU will come to know we are not disapproved.

(Acts 17:10-12) . . .Immediately by night the brothers sent both Paul and Silas out to Be‧roe′a, and these, upon arriving, went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 Now the latter were more noble-minded than those in Thes‧sa‧lo‧ni′ca, for they received the word with the greatest eagerness of mind, carefully examining the Scriptures daily as to whether these things were so. 12 Therefore many of them became believers, and so did not a few of the reputable Greek women and of the men.

(Acts 17:2) 2 So according to Paul’s custom he went inside to them, and for three sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Answer 10

I really can't question the existence of God or the fact that I know God will take care of me.

I often question if God has the same plans in mind as I do, or has the same ideas about being taken care of as I do.

For example, people in prison are "taken care of", three hots and a cot. That is not exactly what I have in mind when I think of being "taken care of".

Like talking to anyone you can look back on a conversation with Christ and ask yourself..."did they mean 'this' or did they mean 'that'?" As much as I would like to I can never bring myself to demand answers, explanations or anything from Christ.

If you ever get to meet Christ, or you understand where your will belongs in relation to Christ, you will understand why.