Quote Originally Posted by DJD View Post
I am a Christian and a believer, and I struggled with some of the same questions that I have read on here. Several things happened in my life that made me understand that I don't have the answers and in fact will never get them. I decided to have faith in what I am being taught and reading as truth and moved on from there. I really do think I have felt God in my life during some terrible times of need.

Believing in God doesn't mean you will not encounter troubles or hardships. It also doesn't mean that all your prayers will be answered to your liking either. Being a Christian also doesn't mean your perfect.... in fact it means you agree you are not perfect and are seeking help.

Also, I don't believe we could be who we are without God. I don't believe we were a little piece of life millions of years ago that has evolved into what we are today. I don't believe we have evolved from monkeys either.

Other Gods out there? Sure people believe that but maybe many of us are actually seeing the same God but just a different culture and their/our interpretation is lost in translation.

To me in the end if you have chosen to not believe and are wrong...well that would be a terrible mistake. JMO
I mean no offense by this but in your last sentence it sounds more like you are hoping you are correct than having faith. You are not the only person that I have heard put it like that either. I guess the way that I think is I am going to live my life the same as I have and God will decide what he wants done with me. My free will is always going to have doubt and I don't think anything anyone says will change that. I personally don't think anyone fully understands the Bible or the meaning of the words. Again if it is Gods words it was still written by man who has probably screwed it up somehow along the line. Also I still don't understand why God would not want us to know that He exists. I know people that will say they know for a fact that God exists. I'm sorry and mean no disrespect to anyone that feels this way but no one knows for a fact. There is only way to know this. People have faith that their is a God which I have no doubt but to hear some say they are 100% certain to me is false.