Anyone else struggling with their faith right now?
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Help me to understand how God can let children suffer and die? WHY do we, as parents, even pray for our babies?? Obviously, it doesn't stop them from dying horrible deaths.
I just don't know what I believe in anymore. I'm terrified to NOT believe, because I'm afraid that God will take my children or my husband from me, or take me away from my family. And that is screwed up!!
Why would He make us to love our children so deeply, if they are just expendable?? Why put parents through that kind of pain? I have so many questions. I feel like I'm falling apart here.
I have always called myself a Christian, but I'm not sure I am so black-and-white now. I believe there is SOMETHING out there... but I dunno. I just try to be a decent person-- helping others, being compassionate, not doing bad things to people, etc.
I wish I knew WHAT I believed. I wish I was solid in my beliefs.
Quoting ..MoonShine..:
Not at all...I feel very solid in mine. It does not lie with the Christian God.
Faith
God doesn't "let" bad things happen. God is not sitting up there going, "This will really fuck them up".
No matter what the case is, a deranged mass murderer/ a genetic abnomality. Whatever, it can be explained as Life.
You live life to the best of your ability. You love fully (as God does) and without reservation. Because God loved you before you were born and will love you despite your failings.
Do not live a life of fear. Because a life lived in fear is a life not lived.
You are as expendable as your children are. The day we are born, we begin to die. What happens between birth and death is up to you.
Whether it is your own life or the lives you touch.
Quoting Anonymous:I have always called myself a Christian, but I'm not sure I am so black-and-white now. I believe there is SOMETHING out there... but I dunno. I just try to be a decent person-- helping others, being compassionate, not doing bad things to people, etc.
I wish I knew WHAT I believed. I wish I was solid in my beliefs.
Quoting ..MoonShine..:
Not at all...I feel very solid in mine. It does not lie with the Christian God.
What happens in birth and death is up to us? REALLY???? tell those innocent school children that. Apparently God never gave them that memo! Posts like yours anger me! :(
Quoting Anonymous:Faith
God doesn't "let" bad things happen. God is not sitting up there going, "This will really fuck them up".
No matter what the case is, a deranged mass murderer/ a genetic abnomality. Whatever, it can be explained as Life.
You live life to the best of your ability. You love fully (as God does) and without reservation. Because God loved you before you were born and will love you despite your failings.
Do not live a life of fear. Because a life lived in fear is a life not lived.
You are as expendable as your children are. The day we are born, we begin to die. What happens between birth and death is up to you.
Whether it is your own life or the lives you touch.
Quoting Anonymous:I have always called myself a Christian, but I'm not sure I am so black-and-white now. I believe there is SOMETHING out there... but I dunno. I just try to be a decent person-- helping others, being compassionate, not doing bad things to people, etc.
I wish I knew WHAT I believed. I wish I was solid in my beliefs.
Quoting ..MoonShine..:
Not at all...I feel very solid in mine. It does not lie with the Christian God.
So, tell me why we ask God to protect us? Protect our children? He is supposed to be so loving and whatnot.... and isn't He in control of the outcome of things? So yes, he IS letting it happen. Or, even more sickening, He is MAKING them happen.
I'm really damn confused and shook up in my head right now, obviously....
Quoting Anonymous:
Faith
God doesn't "let" bad things happen. God is not sitting up there going, "This will really fuck them up".
No matter what the case is, a deranged mass murderer/ a genetic abnomality. Whatever, it can be explained as Life.
You live life to the best of your ability. You love fully (as God does) and without reservation. Because God loved you before you were born and will love you despite your failings.
Do not live a life of fear. Because a life lived in fear is a life not lived.
You are as expendable as your children are. The day we are born, we begin to die. What happens between birth and death is up to you.
Whether it is your own life or the lives you touch.
DD and I moved without telling my husband
