How to restore your faith in God? (Not any particular religion, but the fact there MIGHT be a God)?

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How to restore your faith in God? (Not any particular religion, but the fact there MIGHT be a God)?

Answer 1

I think you are fooling yourself. Accepting the evidence that God is a mythical character requires no faith at all. There is nothing blind about accepting evidence.

Answer 2

"Be still and KNOW that I am God" Ps 46



Stillness is both physical and mental. God promises that if you will be still before Him (take time to sit and pray, listen to what thoughts come to mind) then you will KNOW..



"If you seek Him, He will be found by you" 2 Chronicles 15

God is not hiding. He WANTS to be in your life. He promises that if you sincerely seek Him, you will find Him. Ask Him to reveal Himself to you, in a way you can understand. God will not let you down. Be patient - we are tested where we are weakest - so you may not hear anything immediately.. but God will not let you down.



My faith is Jesus Christ is not blind faith. Over and over He has spoken to me, taught me, counseled me, given me peace, comfort, joy and healing. I cannot prove to you that He exists, but He has proven Himself to me, countless times. He will do the same for you.. and then, like me, it will not be 'blind' faith..

This 5 minute video is awesome at explaining Jesus Christ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_xdAnMHvNc

Answer 3

I'm Jewish, so 'faith' isn't a big concern. That's more of a Christian thing. When I was a 'this is all there is and happy with that' atheist, I still found value in religion. My observance had become increasingly lax though because of other, erm, wee things like partially mis-diagnosed health problems which were severe enough to eventually require major surgery.



Several things led me to take up regular meditation and prayer again though, and I found myself beginning to question if there might not be something after all, accepting it as a legitimate possibility and then finally getting to the point where I think there is.



I don't think there's a formula. I think that it happens when we're ready and when we set ourselves aside long enough to let it. If you're interested, make time for some sort of regular practice and see what comes of it.

Answer 4

Read articles from people who have experienced the other side:



http://www.near-death.com/storm.html

Answer 5

You can restore your faith in God by becoming a Jehovah's Witness.

Answer 6

To have faith in God is to believe in him and trust in him. You have to have a personal relationship with him. So that means being agnostic wont work.

Answer 7

Whatever buddy.

Answer 8

Psst hey shh I didn't tell you this but remember I'm sneaky so just live your life and be cool don't mess with other people because most choose to be stupid due to fear. So let them be = more for me! Get it! Got it! Good.

Answer 9

"I am an agnostic, and I think I find both, atheist and religious people, both ignorant and arrogant in certain ways."



Well... which are *you*? A theist, or an atheist?





"It's blind faith both sides."



No, it isn't.



"Faith" is belief in something that is unsupported or contradicted by evidence. Atheism is a *lack* of belief in something, and cannot logically be based on "faith".





"You can't really be sure that there is no God or that there is."



I don't *need* to be "sure". The nonexistence of God is the null hypothesis. The burden of proof isn't on me; it's on the people claiming that God *exists*.



I can't be "sure" that Yoda doesn't exist; that doesn't mean I *need* to be in order to *lack* a belief in Yoda's existence.





"It's like saying that we are the only beings in the whole universe."



No, it's not:



"Aliens and God: An Analogous Conjecture?": https://sites.google.com/site/alexisbrookex/aliens-and-god-an-analogous-conjecture





"Maybe there is an afterlife and not necessarily a God."



And *maybe* we can commune from the netherworld of the Force.



But until there is evidence to believe something *is* true, there's no reason to *believe* it's true.





Addendum: "@Alexis - I am sure you would have been quite an asset when people though atom was the smallest particle in the universe, and the sub-atomic particles like proton, neutron and electron weren't found."



Sorry, I don't follow you.



Protons and neutrons are comprised of quarks; two up quarks and a down quark, and one up quark and two down quarks, respectively. Electrons are fundamental particles, although both electrons and quarks are comprised of condensed photons.



But then, particle physics has nothing at all to do with either the questions you asked, or the answers I provided.

Answer 10

i am absolutely certain that there is no credible evidence that any god exists ... got some?

Answer 11

hahahhahahahhahahha we obviously are not the only beings in the universe brother. Now first thing I want to say that no govt. registered or authorized church to run is good, they all are synagogues of satan and their priest will pull down on you on performing pagan rituals, worshiping so called holy dayl which in fact are one of the most horrific history crimes in human history, when people have been slaughtered, butchered, sacrificed in the name of pagan gods. The true church is within you! easter=bad-pagan, christmas=bad, evil, pagan, birthday celebration=bad, pagan, evil, new year on 1st january=bad pagan, evil, halloween=bad pagan evil etc. Read the bible and search the calendars to see which are the true holidays and when, read the bible so you know when and what to do and what not to do. Now the universe is obviously big and scientists say that 96% is invisible to us but recently they say they isolated dark matter which makes 26% so they isolated and seen it but the 76% which is dark energy has not been isolated or tested yet, its still theory which dosnt mean it is not there. Obviously there in the heavens is God and His Son and the angels and Enoch in the 76% invisible and under construction. The 26% dark matter is the physicall matter that falls into a black hole and loses its time/space properties, dimensions. We spin around a black hole and we are falling smoothly into it. Black holes are not empty, there is one being down there and is very very far down his name is not worth to be mention whitout explaining he is the one who is not worthy of his name: Azazel, he is the technocrat fallen angel, he has teach man to work metals, make weapons and to blaspheme the name of God so this is why God punished him and already cast him into the pit and he does manage to come out but it takes enormous energy quantities to be consumed to he to obtain physicality over matter that lost its time-space qualities. It is not that he comes here, for he canot stay long, it is that the world is heading down there and there are huge computerized factories, big as a whole planet and robots whit touchscreen devices controlled trough brain links etc. Well the ancient agricultural people souls are not of much use down there but technocrats would understand technical language easily knowing what they have to do. They must build space ships to break trough the event horizon back into physicality where the great .. well there is aprox. 10 to the power of 50 atoms in the whole universe, a very huge number, impossible for any computer we posses, even for mathematics is a huge number, now for only one little single cell to exist in front of your device you access internet with the probability is 10 to the power of 39.997, this is how complex the DNA is. Scientists officially explained DNA is a code, special programming and no one expected or ever thought this code to be so complex and complicated, it has a very very advance language, it is beyond our comprehension, this is how complex this code and language are. Now the scientifical or the evolutionist coincidence make it that you are not made of one single cell, i am not even ask you to do the math but simply tell you that the number of the whole atoms in the universe are comprehended trillions of trillions of trillions of times in the number of the probability of one single cell to happen/exist. Oh the DNA is so wicked that 1% to the right or to the left and BANG! the cell is dead! Now this special coding is not the same, each species have its own special security key and no parts from a species fit to another one. Why would there be security keys? A complex password! It cant be, we are 4%, this is all we can see of the universe and we need a computer at least big as the universe, including the invisible parts just for the cracking of life, source of life, spring of life, fountain of life is not in this realm, in physicality... There is a God and He programmed everything, He is Holy clean of the clean, nothing unclean goes into His Kingdom, He separated the heavens off of the garden.. etc etc.



If you believe in God and God does not exist, you lose nothing.

If you do not believe in God and God exists, you lose everything. (you lose eternal life)

Answer 12

If you are agnostic then you are open to the possibility that there may be a God. How do your restore your faith in that? Well, just consider how far Science has come in the last two thousand years and how far it may go in the next two thousand. We still have so much to learn. Many Scientist believe there are dimensions above ours. If being lives in that space they may be able to step in and out of our time and out of it as easily as we go to the super marker and come back home. Our concept of reality can not exist without time. We could never understand such beings, but in a dimension above ours there is no time and no limit. It is eternity by the Biblical definition. The entities that live there would be gods to us. What I'm saying is there may be a point in the future where we can scientifically create a case for the sprit world, a place where pseudo Science and Science could co-exist, but we aren't there yet. In the mean time to claim with absolute certainty that there is no intelligent design at all is arrogant and narrow minded. It's a stance that assumes we have come as far as we will with what we know.



How do you come around to believing in the all-loving Christian God of the Bible? Well there's a lot of evidence all around that says that god doesn't exist. There's historical evidence that you can use to rationalize how Christianity became the force it is today instead of paganism continuing…. I've come to believe there may be a hands off creator or creators who made it all abandoned us and have moved on to make better races on better planets. Perhaps we are like a early work of Picasso or Van Gogh, something forged in the early stages of the artist hand developing and tossed aside for a true masterpiece which we'll never know of. Although that may sound bleak, it does seem to line up pretty well with the world we live in, if you assume a creator.

Answer 13

The basis of our religion is that it is not a religion, it is a relationship with Christ. History actually does the opposite of prove that it is false, as your only three options for your belief in Jesus's death and resurrection is that he was a liar, lunatic or that he was really God. If he was a liar, then first off he couldn't have preformed his historically documented miracles. Also, after his death his disciples went into a state of depression. Three days later they proclaimed the Gospel like never before and claimed to see Jesus. Hundreds of people saw Jesus three days after his death, and the only two explications for this are lunacy, or that they really saw it. If it was lunacy, our entire western culture of moral rights and wrongs collapses, as Jesus taught most of them and He has been called an amazing teacher by many historians, Christian and Athiest alike. The only other option we have then is that he is the Messiah and the son of God, proving Christianity true. I am not at all trying to be arrogant, I am stating facts. :)

Answer 14

Do single males create life?

And what is god supposed to be? Why, an individual masculine being! (single male)



I don't worship nature-I experience it daily and in no way is there any reason to believe such an unrealistic theory. I mean unicorns are more likely to occur in nature. It's not much of a stretch to imagine a horse with an extra bone but something as unnatural as a mono-deity...and then saying it's masculine?

Look at history...'in the beginning' of human evidence, there is evidence of nature worship and sometimes ancestor worship. Than when there started to be organized religion, the Hindu & Judaism started...and Judaism was henotheistic (meaning one main god but other lesser gods), and after that hundreds of polytheistic religions came and went.



Of course some will say god is spiritual and not bound to earthly rules....it makes no sense though that a god would exist and put such importance on 'just believing' it existed then go to such lengths to disguise itself.



Have you ever watched the 'Ancient Aliens' shows? Some of what they say is ridiculous BUT there are ancient buildings and temples that some interpret as implying there was something else interfering in human lives...they say it was aliens and nothing about these sites says it was an individual god no one wrote about, so how do you know there weren't aliens?

You'd say there is no proof...same with any theory and it's crazy to think anyone would be punished for not believing it.



@ ryan, 'historically documented miracles'...WTF are you talking about? There are NONE



@ Q&A man, you'd think but why would a human be'created' with useless organs like an appendix or the ability to get pregnant years before being mentally mature and/or able to care for a child?



@ cross rules, NEAR death doesn't mean they did die and does that page mention that Hindu's have NDEs that reflect their culture/religion or that the same experience happens to those who undergo oxygen deprivation?

Answer 15

This is pointless without a religion. Wanting to believe that some non specific god might exist? How pointless is that?

Answer 16

You are not agnostic. Gnostic = knowledge of God, Agnostic = no knowledge of God. Theist = belief in God, Atheist = no belief in God. You either have belief or you don't. There is no middle ground on that.

Answer 17

You hit the nail right on the proverbial head. They are both eating of the "red pottage," which transfigured, means: dangerous arrogance, which unfortunately is going to result in their forfeiting their spiritual birthright. Such a great loss for both camps!

Answer 18

Well. Whatever it is the supreme being in your definition, as you talk it to people, they will name it "God". That is a better position than being an atheist. A Rational one. Happy Hunting !

Answer 19

"Gods undertaker, has science buried God?" By john lennox

"The case for a creator" "the case for christ" "the case for easter" by lee strobel

"The reason for God" by timothy keller

these are a few books that i resort to for that. Christianity is evidence based, not blind faith based.

Answer 20

faith in God/supernatural force is fine.



faith in a christian/islamic/any-dumb-religion-like-scientology is stupid.