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Have you ever felt your faiths or beliefs tested?
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ThAt duDe (Neil)
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Yes.
I felt tested when my father hurt my family when he cheated on my mother.
I felt tested after he was diagnosed with cancer.
I felt tested when he died of cancer.
I felt tested when my first love left during his last week with us.
I knew I had lost when a priest came up to me while I was sitting on my porch with a cigarette, twenty minutes after he died, and I said no thank you. My mom and sister have stayed with the Catholic faith, but I left it.
It wasn't the bitterness that made me lose faith in god, I've always be fascinated with science, and readily accepted theories over the scriptures, its just that this experience shook me with a maturity I can't describe. I saw how precious and fragile life is while I took care of my dad, I saw how science and prayer could do nothing for his disease. When he was on morphine to control the pain, he usually was incoherent, but one time he told me "Don't worry Neil man, its not the end, I'll just be in a different dimension." I understood what he meant, and I looked around at how even atheists cannot deny that the universe recycles our bodies to give new life, how we have no idea what lays beyond death, nor should we care really... Its our lives we need to be focusing on, what is happening, right now.
I accepted reality, and felt that I did not need to fall back on a fable for support. I just became stronger.
I felt tested when my father hurt my family when he cheated on my mother.
I felt tested after he was diagnosed with cancer.
I felt tested when he died of cancer.
I felt tested when my first love left during his last week with us.
I knew I had lost when a priest came up to me while I was sitting on my porch with a cigarette, twenty minutes after he died, and I said no thank you. My mom and sister have stayed with the Catholic faith, but I left it.
It wasn't the bitterness that made me lose faith in god, I've always be fascinated with science, and readily accepted theories over the scriptures, its just that this experience shook me with a maturity I can't describe. I saw how precious and fragile life is while I took care of my dad, I saw how science and prayer could do nothing for his disease. When he was on morphine to control the pain, he usually was incoherent, but one time he told me "Don't worry Neil man, its not the end, I'll just be in a different dimension." I understood what he meant, and I looked around at how even atheists cannot deny that the universe recycles our bodies to give new life, how we have no idea what lays beyond death, nor should we care really... Its our lives we need to be focusing on, what is happening, right now.
I accepted reality, and felt that I did not need to fall back on a fable for support. I just became stronger.
E
elish
Guest
Of course! As christians, our faiths and beliefs are often tested. I guess it's God's way of making us aware of our shaky faith and to do something about it to regain that firm foundation. My faith, personally, has always been tested. At some point, i even question what I'm actually believing in and if i should. These are the times i have lost faith almost completely. But after some time, when I look back at those things and events, I've always come to the conclusion that my faith was being tested and i've come to realise how strained my personal relationship with God was. And one thing for sure, that as a child of God, even if a stray from Him for a while, He'll always bring you back to Him, someday.
Yup, that's my breif testimony. But i hope it'll give you the courage to face your problems in our walk behind Christ. God Bless!
Yup, that's my breif testimony. But i hope it'll give you the courage to face your problems in our walk behind Christ. God Bless!
R
real talk, real talk
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Yes. I'm atheist now, and finally enjoying life.
Rebecca1023
New member
Tested all the time. Satan never gives anyone a free ride.Once when I was working in my shop years ago, the Lord spoke to me on the inside to leave the building. I hesitated if that was actually God or was it just me.Then there was a much stronger impression to leave. So I left and as I was walking across the street, the building blew up. An old boiler blew up.As I was studiing Mark 11:22,23 years ago. That is where Jesus said to speak to things. Two of my children got into our convertable and pulled it out of gear. It was sitting on a hill and started rolling towards a 20 foot dropoff. I yelled at the car, " YOU STOP IN THE NAME OF JESUS".It immediately made a 90 degree turn into the yard and stopped.There are many more instances. But, yes we are tested. The thing is God never tests or tempts us. He said it is the devil that brings persecutions and cares of this world to choke the word that we have sown in our hearts. It is up to us to believe God.s promises or the lies of the devil. If a doctor says you have terminal cancer, you can believe him and die, or you can believe the word that says you are healed. Psalms103:3.One thing God will never do is believe for you or make any choices for you.