Doubting god ever okay?

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Is it ever okay to doubt god’s existence and power/love. I know a lot of people say that your teen years are when u start question everything you do and become slightly distanced from society. But us questions god’s existence okay ?
 
It depends. Do you doubt and then simply say, “since I doubt, it must not be true;” or, do you doubt and then say “I doubt, and so I will search to see if there are answers.”?

Many people take the first route, believing that their doubts are enough evidence to prove their faith is wrong. That is bad, and it is irrational. But it is also easy, which is why many people go that route.

The second route is completely acceptable, and I would argue it is natural given our fallen state. Approached properly, this sort of doubt can lead to a greater understanding of God.

If you feel doubt, try to figure out where that doubt is coming from, and then look to see if other people have had those doubts and found reasonable answers for them. In pretty much every instance, there are probably answers to your doubts. ^^
 
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St Thomas doubted. He prayed the prayer that we are to pray when we doubt “Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief.”
 
U usually doubt stuff and then just leave it…one of my biggest doubts at the moment is about the wedding feat of Cana . I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that Jesus actually turned water into wine…after thinking about that I started doubting almost everything. I still believe in god but not as much as I used to
 
Well, let me ask you this.

Why is that a problem? Usually a doubt comes from incredulity, or personal disagreement with a certain text, or something like that.

So, what is it about this passage that is causing you concern? I’f you’d like to switch to PM, I’d be happy to discuss it with you, since it’s not really the point of this topic.
 
Look at it like this. The grapevine absorbs water and fills it’s fruit with that water. The water held inside the grape is removed and begins to ferment, fermentation is a natural process and the result is wine.

Nature turns water to wine every day in just about every culture on earth. Jesus’ miracle was expediting the natural process. If He really is God, all of the processes of nature are at his command.
 
We are only human. There are times in our lives when doubt will creep in. But through prayer, confession and guidance from the Holy Spirit (and if need be, Priest/Spiritual Advisor) we have the tools to help overcome that doubt. It isn’t always easy to be sure, but with God all things are possible. This may sound simple-minded to some people, but I’m pretty much a basic and simple person. And this is how I get through things like that.

You will be in my prayers.
 
One neat thing I was told about St. Thomas is that because of his doubting, he was the only one of the apostles who actually touched our risen Lord.
 
Unless you are extremely deep into your prayer life, I don’t see how you can help doubting every so often. If I could get a few chambers into the Interior Castle that Teresa Avila writes about, I sometimes imagine that I might be different, but I’m not even reliably out of the second chamber and into the third, and that is supposed to be something that is under my own power. I thought of a way that might ease my way into the third chamber this morning though. Part of my problem is that I have been perceiving Teresa as advocating masochism, but this morning I realized that we should want penance not because of a perverse desire for punishment, but because we have grievously offended God. For me at least, this makes the character of the third chamber seem less perverse and more justified.
 
Izzy I went through 4 years of doubting God’s existence . It took 4 years to come out of my doubt which were huge doubts (I had in essence become an atheist who hated being an atheist )

But I did come out of it . Sure there are some days when doubt comes in but it’s a very tiny doubt that’s extremely easy for me now to overcome .

When I doubted was when I did my best research into God’s existence .

If you have any questions feel free to on me and I’ll even give you my email

Trust me me this lzzy but this doubt will one day raise your faith to a level you never thought possible .
 
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