Belief in God

Hi everyone, I am a believer in God and like connecting to those with the same beliefs! . Nice to meet you all!

Welcome LR15!

Thanks LR15, nice to meet you too! Peace and Love my friend.

Hi! We do have some forums for folks who are believers--as well as social groups. So, feel free to check them out and join where you feel you most fit in!

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Welcome

well i personally have lost faith in God, not completely but it seems like he doesn't care. the more i pray to him, the more he refuses to answer. i pray for friendships to improve my life, and what does he give me, loneliness? he gives me all these problems just so that i can turn to him. what kind of a God is he?

what kind of a God wouldn't want to alleviate your problems? no instead he allows fellow students at my school to bully me. i find it better not to be religious at all. i am very upset right now. all this time i've been trusting him and he hasn't made things better. you feel like he's changed things when you're all excited, but at the end of the day, that loneliness is still there. i don't want to be lonely. i want friends and if he can't prove that he exists in my life, then why should i put my faith in him?
quit telling me that he loves me. if he loved me, he would not have allowed me to be bullied by a bunch of students when i was younger. they did not treat me like a brother but instead viewed me as different all because of my ethnicity. i hate this. i hate my life.
when i had my first friend freshman year, God had to take him away from me and move him to a city that's miles away from me. yeah, when i'm successful, you have to destroy me do you?
from the very beginning, he made me seem like a fool in elementary. i encountered day care center teachers complaining about my constant misbehaving. seriously if these guys can't handle taking care of toddlers and kids like that, they should find another job. when i met my elementary teacher for first grade, she pulled my ear. when i was joking with other kids, people took me seriously and started to bully me. i was never treated like an actual human being capable of making jokes without being taken seriously. nobody liked me. even to this day, when i smile, others won't smile back. when i'm around, others notice me a lot. it's like, dude, go back to what you're doing. quit staring at me or else...

yeah whenever someone sees me with a cross, they glare at me as if i should not wear it. ever since then i stopped. whenever i tell people my religion nobody seems to give ear. they all look at me and go i didn't know you were christian. that's so weird, don't you think? Ever since prayer stopped working for me, i just began to get a little colder. i'm not soft anymore.

Hey, heyitsme,

I just want to say I hear you and I understand. You're using the adjective 'he' so Im making an assumption about what "God" you're complaining about. I wont use this as a place to feed the existing stigma about all of that.

I will say, to me, God is love. Yes, God does love you, but you will feel the most benefit of Gods love if you open and allow the love to come in. Part of letting it in, is letting it go out too. Love needs to be reciprocal for it to work its most magic.

Have you sincerely tried loving the God of Love? If you did, you would know that what Im telling you isnt BS and it isnt part of some most popular religion in the universe, its a simple Truth that many religions, philosophies, and spiritual teachings adhere to. If you dont feel Gods love, try loving God first. Surely you can feel your own love?

This isnt meant to negate the suffering you've felt and known. God hears you and knows the pain you know in yourself so very well because God is the love you give yourself and God is the love you give in return to the outside world that is full of love, if only you will let yourself see.

yeah my christian and catholic friends are endowed with the gift of language and are able to argue their point effectively. one time i sat in front of the entire class and i tried to make my point but felt like i was prevented from doing so due to the fact that i was shy and was unprepared... see how talented and gifted those guys are... they're well-liked with the school and they have no problems communicating with their nonchristian friends. whenever others see them with crosses and crucifixes others don't find it objectionable on them. when i wear it, others look at me in shock.

i can't believe they wouldn't kick these two guys out of their clique but instead they did it to me.

Anyone mistreating anyone anywhere, causes a lot of pain everywhere.

as for the years that i used to attend church, i had a feeling that God did not want me there or was i just in a church that was not right for me? it would get worse when i went. i hated church. i did not like church and when i told otehrs that i went to church, none of my nonchristian friends believed me.

Do you spend time in the same small circle of people? Or, choose as friends people with the same type personalities as you've always known? I wonder who you mean by 'everybody'. I guess just those people you spent time talking with. Getting the same feedback from everybody seems to lend itself to some kind of truth or knowledge. I wouldnt trust it completely alone though.

I dont think churches can hate.

I agree heyitsme

i did spend time with people my age but they didn't want me around. i was not aloof. i don't think they can but they weren't very welcoming.

There is a difference between Catholics and Christians?

Were you there to meet people, or God?

I was there because I wanted to attend church every sunday. I thought that it was great that i started going. I kept going and I was there to meet people initially. I mean most of the kids were there just because their friends were or when they were told to go.
After a while I started to become interested in God. My sunday school teacher gave me a pamphlet about the four spiritual laws and stuff like that. that's when i accepted Christ.
but sometimes people did not like the way i behaved. i was showing them another side that they did not see. so they did not like me and i just left.

now that i think about it i'm not sure if i was a true christian.

yes, there's a difference between catholics and christians (usually protestant).

I still feel sad for you that you felt unaccepted.

Thanks but what can you do about it? I wasn't always a christian. Obviously it meant that i didn't really renounce my old religion even though i accepted Christ. Maybe in the eyes of God I'm not his child. I constantly have to endure the mistreatment of christians at school and outside.

Do you think you could imaginatively combine the two beliefs into a greater one? Or, seperately draw strength from each individually? Have multi faiths? I dont believe God rejects any of us. We are all parts of one.