Fighting myself between Atheism and Christianity?

Question

I have been a Christian on and off for the past decade or so and I continuously fight with myself about God and his supposed existance. I have found absolutely no proof that God exists and that Jesus is the true God even if one exists. I would love to just have strong faith like so many Christians do but it seems that I just can't. All it would take would just be for God to appear to me once for five seconds and I would believe. That will never happen though. Is anybody else fighting between Jesus and Atheism?

Answer 1

The evidence for the proof of God is there for you to see.  Read the Bible.  If you doubt the existence of Jesus, I would recommend the following resources:

DVD or book The Christ Files by John Dickson, check out www.thechristfiles.com.au for information

More than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell

Who Moved the Stone by Frank Morrison  

The New Testament Documents:  Are they Reliable? by F.F. Bruce, available free online at  http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/ff...

Any of the Lee Strobel books

Ask God for the faith you need.  This may not necessarily be the faith you are looking for.  Sometimes we have an idea of what we need or of what God is, not realising that this is not the true God, so when we go looking for Him we do not find Him.  I am not saying this is what you are doing.  Come to God on His terms, not your own.  Understand that you are a sinner in need of a Saviour.

Read the Bible every day.  Start with the gospel of Mark.  Before you read pray this prayer or something similar:  God, I do not know if you exist or not.  If you do, I want to know you.  Please open my heart to receive your Word.  Help me to understand what I read.  Help me in my unbelief.

Do this everyday with sincerity of heart.  I invite you to join the forum I am an administrator on.  There you will find many people anxious to help you and answer any of your questions.  You can read testimonies of others and how they turned from a life of unbelief to one committed to serving the Lord.  The website is:  http://christiandiscussions.phpbb88.com/

I will pray for you as I am sure others who have read you question will also.  

Answer 2

READ YOUR HOLY BIBLE YOU WANT TO MAKE IT TI HEAVEN

Answer 3

Hi Curtis,

I am almost 20 and have only just started questioning my faith myself. I know how it feels, and it is tough, asking all those questions. Never underestimate the power of questioning, it can actually strengthen  your faith. Questioning your faith seems to rock you to the core, your faith defines who you are. It will come to you in the end, so don't worry. Fundies will just tell you to convert- They do not have the courage to question their faith, or alternatively, they believe that their faith is not to be reasoned with. Just take it one step at a time, you will find the answer. I have yet to find it myself... Hope this helped! :) God Bless

Answer 4

You don't need proof, you need FAITH, it is God's choice if he wants to appear to you. And no i do not need any proof that God exsists I believe he does and thats all you need

Answer 5

Nah, there's no real argument.  No god is necessary in our universe, and while it is comforting to believe in one, that doesn't add any validity to it.  

Answer 6

Maybe the answer for you is Agnosticism, which a lot of athiest are without realizing it.

Answer 7

Pray for the gift of faith!

God loves you...God bless

Answer 8

I can tell you this site is not the place to bring this dilemma.  You will have a really difficult time finding God here, in my opinion.  Day in and day out, I see many atheists and others here with their logic and it is really interesting to me.  But not the place for a Christian struggling with faith (jmo).

The place for a Christian struggling with faith to go is God.  Go to His Word.  Get in a quiet place and tell Him all about it.  He might not show you His presence in a way you like, though.  Be forewarned:  Sometimes, when we think we're running the show, God lets us find out we aren't.  It's painful, humbling, cleansing and faith-building.

Answer 9

You are fighting what is your brain and it's superior knowledge against your childhood baggage.

That's how they get you for life.  Indoctrinate you as a child so you are too scared to leave as an adult.

It's OK, it's all made up.  Go research some of the other world religions, they are all exactly the same.  They were invented to help the uneducated explain their world.  Nothing special or magic, just a crutch.

Listen to yourself, you are smarter than that, you don't need the mumbo-jumbo...you certainly don't need the c**p it sounds like your religion has put you through.  Accept that it isn't real and find peace.

Go to ex-christian.net and read the testimonies, talk to them there, they were all in your shoes once.

Answer 10

haha love your additional detail... Unreal is just the word I base Religion in :P

Answer 11

Brother please visit this website. But first pray to God.

www.carm.org

Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry.

-Till He Returns

God Bless

Answer 12

Here's what I hope is a helpful "correction" to your thinkinging. It is not Christianity versus atheism, it is theism versus atheism. Forget about Christianity for a moment, do you think there is some sky daddy?  If not then you are suffering from the emotional bonding and familial ties of the religion you were raised in rather than a real need to believe in mythic characters.

Answer 13

Realize that your rationality is the key to living a life free of fear of the supernatural. Have you seen any *evidence* that God exists, and not had a hunch? Have you a reason to believe that the hunch, if you have one, is indicative to you that a Christian God must exist, and not any of the others that have been created by man throughout history?

Free your mind.

http://www.infidels.org/

Answer 14

No!!  Just do a little research!

There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one!!! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded!!

Outside of the bible he is not mentioned in anything until many years after his supposed death!!

The Roman Emperor Constantine produced the bible and he was a pagan not god!!!   He also organized Christianity into the Holly Roman Catholic Church!!  Not in Israel or any of the countries of supposed origin but entirely Italian!!

What a wonder full disinformation and deception campaign he waged against his Christian enemies - so good in fact that Christians are still following the deception to this day!!!

Perhaps your intelligence is trying to break through though!

Science has shown atheists have a higher intelligence than people with a strong religious faith. The difference is 5.8 points according to findings in developmental psychology!!!    

More members of the "intellectual elite" considered themselves atheists than the national average.

Only 7 percent of members of the American National Academy of Sciences believed in God. Whilst only 3.3 percent believed in God in the UK’s Royal Society.

Several Gallup poll studies of the general population have shown that those with higher IQ’s tend not to believe in God."

Evolution in action with Christians getting left behind like the monkeys and apes before them!!!

Answer 15

Nope.  I'm 100% atheist.

Answer 16

Hi Curtis...I think many of us Christians struggle as you are at some point in their walk with God. I came across some books that have helped to strengthen my faith. They were written by a journalist by the name of Lee Strobel. He was an atheist who set out to prove that God did not exist by doing research and interviewing many well known pastors, preachers etc and fellow atheists among others. Anyway...in the end he found out that God really DOES exist and wrote some books on his findings. Here are the titles...The Case For Faith and The Case For Christ. Look them up...I know that they will help you...God bless!! :0)