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Originally Posted by nofaith
I wasn't raised by a religious family and with everything that has happened in my life I am not convinced that there is a God. I also believe that if there is a God that he/she is not very nice for letting all the bad stuff happen in the world. I also wonder if the reason I have no faith and can't even imagine believing in a God is because of the things I have been though. I just can't believe no matter how hard I try. The whole religious thing to me just seems not logical. I just wonder if anyone else has experienced this and if you think it may have to be partially due to your diagnosis.
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Hi, nofaith!
You have to go with your own perceptions and your own understanding. Adopting those of someone else doesn't sound like being true to yourself. The problem you seem to be dealing with is called the Problem of Pain: How could a loving and forgiving God permit all of the incredible suffering and misery that goes on down here? I get the feeling that that's the biggest stumbling block to any kind of faith.
People have been dealing with it for two thousand years. One potential solution (though an unhappy one I have to admit) is simply that in His eyes and to His mind our sufferings here below are entirely minimal compared to the eternity of love and bliss which we are promised and on which he delivers. In other words, we're some strange kind of experiment he's involved in, and he makes it up to us in the next life. It may sound credible, it may not, but it's all I've heard that makes a kind of sense.
Take care!
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