was ther ever a point in your life where you doubted you faith and everything u believed in?

Question

if u did, but then u came back to it nd realized u were wrong plz tell me about it

Answer 1

How many do you want to hear? hee hee. Many times I have doubted. They were indeed that darknight of the soul stuff, they certainly helped to deliver me were I am today ( I don`t mean at a computer). Probally the biggest was whem my mum died. Many many moons ago she developed renal failure. (And I don`t mean .....) any how, at the time there was not much they could do and the likely out come would be she was going to die. The adults that were around at the time broke the news to my sister who in turn was told to break the news to myself. Our family had weird values at that time, children need to know the bare minimum `cos the can`t deal with it. So having to come to terms with all this, things changed and she was hooked up to a kidney machine. The problem from here was that no one told us children she was no longer going to die. So we grew up with this knowledge that it may happen one day, any day. And she did, yes 19 years later. As you can imagine there was a lot of anger about and yes If I could just see God face to face I would tell him exactly what he could do with his creation and everlasting life he he he, as if. So in my bid to make sense of al this I started looking for answers in the bible with out much success. Funny as it was though while sitting in chapel and challending god in my head ( it was fairly empty and there werer no services going on), any way as I sat there, at the end of the pew were some hymn books scattered around. I even went to the point of pointing out that if were so respected people wouldn`t just throw hymn books in his house so carelessly. On the way out I decided to tidy them up a bit (not that I was looking for favours of course ) Amoung the hymn books I noticed a different kind of book, I picked it up and had a browse. It was a book on the Gnostic Gospels. I sat back down again and turned the pages becoming engrossed and enlightened.
It was at that point my wife appeared ( no I didn`t marry an appirition) I had been ther reading this bopok for so long she thouoght something terrible had happened. And it had..... I declared the bible as nothing more than a collection of fabled tale by a group of sad and lonely indaviduals!!!! After that though I did look through my bible and it was then I realised that we often interrate the bible wrongly. I spent many a time in conffession discussing this with the priest (I ws either going mad or the preist I was talking to had less faith then me ) It was shortly after this revelation that I humbley had to apologise to god. I now think of myself and others differently. Shortly after this I got a sensation that my mum was saying (not in words of course it was more a feeling) that she had to move now, her time was over here. Some say this was indeed a strange set of coincedence`s and not to look too far in to it ( yes the priest was one ) It has changed and strengthened my faith but I`m still a long way from being wholesome

Answer 2

If you believe that your religious beliefs are true, they certainly are - like anybody else’s – anywhere in the world. As a human being, you must, by nature, possess religious beliefs; if not the true ones; the false ones make no difference to you because they are still beliefs and you wouldn’t know the difference anyway!

You will surely want to give your dear life to defend your beliefs if you are, on top, a fanatic. So you die while firmly possessed and tranquilized by the beliefs, whatever they may be! This is what a religion would seem to be all about to a great majority of mankind. In a way, it is, to many, a human culture, more of a religiosity than a religion!

Islam is different, just like Christianity or Judaism or Hinduism or Buddhism or any other that goes by the classification of religion is – according to all the respective followers - in a typical human mindset. We all think alike about each other’s beliefs because they are not alike.

It is for this reason that mankind can possess among them "contradictory" beliefs and draw and enjoy a tremendous spiritual satisfaction, not in the commonality but in the diversity of beliefs - all in the typical human spirit of rivalry for the presumed excellence. Human beings are divided by differing beliefs but well united by a common doubt - doubting each other’s beliefs.

In the matter of religious beliefs, you, as a human being, are cautious enough not to want to question your beliefs coldly when they are cozily reposed in you in the warmth of a sort of a strange co-existence – you and your beliefs – each in control of the other – so much so that one without the other is discomforting; or even more; - unthinkable!

Normally therefore with this cozy co-existence, there is an unconscious "timidity" in questioning the beliefs; and there is therefore a psychological reactionary "rigidity" in clinging to them in order to belie the existence of timidity. It is a funny tale of two 'dities' – which keeps the spiritual side of the transient life going, while the going lasts.

"Believe those who are seeking the truth; Doubt those who say they found it. And yet one more: "Man readily believes in what he knows to be untrue - because he likes it to be true". And perhaps end with this one: "A mind possessing a belief is the mind possessed by it - if the belief is wrong - and it is often so" – for many.

It takes a great spiritual courage to look around and weigh your beliefs with the comparative ones of the others and apply "simple human wisdom" about what can be nearest to the truth.

Answer 3

Oh, yes! I grew up in church in a devout family. My dad had been a minister. Our denomination taught that God would not forgive divorce, and yet, when I graduated from high school my parents divorced. Shock! I was devastated and disillusioned with my parents, God, and church. For about 10 years, I blamed God. One day I seriously considered suicide. I was so miserable. I don't say that God spoke to me, but I sensed his message, "Don't do this." I got out my Bible (which I had packed away in the back of the closet in a spare room). It had been so many years since I had read it, I didn't even know where to begin, and I asked him to guide me. I opened it and began to read Psalm 116, which seemed custom-written just for me and the way I had thought and the way that I felt. It was so good to be back in his arms, so to speak. I realized that my parents' divorce was not his doing and that he is capable of forgiving and restoring us, despite all of our shortcomings, mistakes, sins, errors, transgressions, and iniquities. I have never doubted my faith again.

Answer 4

Yes. I used to go to church and pray on a weekly basis. But when I see all the bad things happening in the world, I just have to wonder if there really is a god and if there is why he would let such terrible things happen. This has been going on for about 4-5 years now and I keep drifting further and further away from organized religion. It is now a struggle to make me go to church once every 2 months.

Answer 5

yes i did. after my first major life failure. i decided to start everything from scratch; faith, my belief of how the world works, my view on people, everything. I was going to rediscover the world and life on my own terms. The plan was to return to christianity when i felt more stable and had 'found myself'. Turns out that in the process i found out that christianity was not real, factual or realistic and most importantly, its history does not lend it any crediance. So i severed all ties and i am now a content atheist. I don't think my story ended like you wanted but most people who get out are lucky to have escaped the indoctrination in the first place that going back is usually out of the question

Answer 6

Yes. I was raised Catholic, and never felt connected to that faith. Sometimes at church I would feel overwhelmed with pride and joy in being Catholic. But I couldn't reconcile some of the things that the church wanted me to do - confession, taking communion, giving money. I wanted to believe that God would hear me no natter where I was. That he would know if I was sorry, if I confessed to him personally. I saw the church as too much of an "organization" and not spiritual enough for me. After visiting a famous spiritualist in New Orleans (Priestess Miriam), and learning about New Orleans spiritual culture, I decided that New Orleans Voodoo was the religion for me.

Answer 7

yes there was a time where i doubted my faith and only half the stuff i believed in. well, the reason i did that was because my two friends are atheist. they respect me and never questioned my beliefs. but i asked them why they didn't believe in religion. they told me that they didn't believe in it because they feel religion is made up so people can have good morals and they can have a meaning or purpose in life. i still believe in religion because it has help me when i needed it most. going to church and believing in God has made me a good and decent person. even though i came back to my faith, i don't believe in hell anymore. i think the church made it up so people will do good things rather than bad things.

Answer 8

Doubted my christian faith when I was 6 years old. Became an atheist at age 15. Never doubted anything.

Answer 9

Well, my answer's different. I used to be a Christian and I doubted my faith many many times over the years (over 20 years) and finally, after doing research, I realized that the bible was basically, a book of fiction.

So, yeah, I doubted my faith and I'm much happier now being agnostic.

Answer 10

Well I used to be a christian and now I am an atheist. So I obviously doubted one thing I believed in, but not all. I never quit believing in compassion for animals, being honest in relationships, ect.