Faith crisis need help

[Help_me_please_1]

Ice been experiencing a severe spiritual crisis for quite some time now. I need serious help. I suppose god is real and all but I’m not entirely confident. I’ve investigated everything and the only answer that would be correct is I don’t know. It’s impossible to know really. But then all the stories of the saints and mystic come up with all the miracles and what not. I need help with my faith. How can I really restore my faith. And also maybe some argents for god would also be nice.

 

[Eric_Hyom]

Hello Help me please;

If you can fully trust the first sentence in the Bible as being an absolute truth -

‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth’

If God can create the heavens and the Earth from nothing, then everything else is a minor miracle by comparison, raising the dead, virgin birth, talking snake, etc.

The rest of the Bible takes a lifetime to try and understand, but if you are searching for God you have to do something.

God’s Blessing and peace be with you

Eric

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[Binto]

The great thing about the existance of God is that you can know. Faith requires no sacrifice of the intellect. It’s just the stigma of modern society that faith is blind acceptence. Faith is something entirely diffrerant. This video explains it perfectly. (I was in a very similar crisis and it really helped me) Fr. Barron is the man.

youtube.com/watch?v=m_4PSgFjtvI

Really hope this helps!

 

[Leegal]

Ice been experiencing a severe spiritual crisis for quite some time now. I need serious help. I suppose god is real and all but I’m not entirely confident. I’ve investigated everything and the only answer that would be correct is I don’t know. It’s impossible to know really. But then all the stories of the saints and mystic come up with all the miracles and what not. I need help with my faith. How can I really restore my faith. And also maybe some argents for god would also be nice.

I see that this has been going on for some months. You dabbled in atheism. Are you still studying?

Such studies require a certain level of maturity and I don’t mean in terms of years – but a maturation of your faith so that the study is not a “search” for something else.

Will pray for you. But from what I have seen is this can happen when we explore things that we are not prepared yet to explore. I suggest that if you are looking elsewhere that you, instead, concentrate on Catholicism, even if you don’t “feel” it right now.

If you doubt that God is real, trying praying and going to confession and Mass on a regular basis. You will have your answer soon if you try and make these things a habit – instead of looking elsewhere. Concentrate on the Mass and what’s happening. God will give you the answers you seek through prayer and devotion.

God Bless.

Lord, I believe:
I wish to believe in Thee.
Lord, let my faith be full and unreserved,
and let it penetrate my thought,
my way of judging Divine things and human things.
Lord, let my faith be joyful
and give peace and gladness to my spirit,
and dispose it for prayer with God
and conversation with men,
so that the inner bliss of its fortunate possession
may shine forth in sacred and secular conversation.
Lord, let my faith be humble and not presume
to be based on the experience of my thought and of my
feeling;
but let it surrender to the testimony of the Holy Spirit,
and not have any better guarantee than in docility to
Tradition
and to the authority of the magisterium of the Holy Church.

Amen.

 

[Veronica97]

I would recommend just asking God for Faith. Praying the Rosary is a good way to do this. The fruits of the Glorious mysteries are: FAITH, HOPE, LOVE OF GOD, GRACE OF A HOLY DEATH, and TRUST IN MARY’S INTERCESSION. marypages.com/Glorious.htm
If Mary asks her Son to give you more Faith, then He will b/c he will honor His mother’s requests as long as they are in line with the Will of God. And how could you having more Faith (or any of those other fruits of the mysteries) be contrary to the Will of God?
Also, just look at the complexity of the human body or the beauty of nature (the many species of animals and flowers for instance), and just ask yourself, “Do I honestly believe these could have just ‘happened’ by chance?”
Doubts are normal and natural and we all have our own struggles with one or more of the virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity. Mine is Hope–I struggle with doubting God’s Mercy at times, and I find that praying the Rosary or the Divine Mercy Chaplet helps. God bless!

 

[Cryptic1]

You’re not alone when you say you’re in a spiritual crisis. Even those who have a relationship with God have occasional doubts or crisis of faith.

You need to “experience God” in order to believe in Him and in His existence. Just because religion says it’s so is not as important as having a real encounter with God.

The thing is to ask God to give you a sign that He is real. Ask persistently like the bible says until you get what you’re looking for. God is probably revealing Himself to you even as you’re going through this crisis, but you have to make sure your eyes and heart are open to receiving His grace.

Whatever crisis you’re going through, don’t ever give up believing in Him because He’ll never give up on you. If you’ve ever felt a pulling or tugging at your heartstrings while marveling at His creation or had a newfound compassion for something you’ve never felt before, it’s God pouring out His grace upon you. It is God who is in essence reaching out to you and it’s ultimately up to you whether or not to accept His amazing grace.

God Bless

 

[sparrowhawk28]

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” - Khalil Gibran

You are definitely not alone in your spiritual troubles - recently I realised my faith had been struggling for years, and I just hadn’t been motivated to do anything about it. Doubts happen to everyone.
Faith is hard, because it requires commitment and trust. There will always be people trying to disprove your faith or convince you that there are better things to believe. But it is definitely a worthwhile thing to work for. Faith makes things true and possible.

You have been given some good advice already. Try and look for God and for His grace, even in the small things - I discovered that I feel most connected to God when I am surrounded by nature, so I spend time there in order to build on my faith and speak with Him. Find a place where you feel a sense of spirituality, and allow it to build up within you.
Reading the Bible really helped me, and it could be beneficial for you also. I find St. Paul’s letters particularly inspiring and relevant, and have a few meaningful passages that I keep in my mind to refer to when times are hard or when my faith isn’t where I want it to be.

God will never forsake you. He loves you, and is always patient. Have courage and don’t give up, even if it seems like things will never change. You will be in my thoughts and prayers. God bless.

 

[Lancer]

You’re not alone when you say you’re in a spiritual crisis. Even those who have a relationship with God have occasional doubts or crisis of faith.

You need to “experience God” in order to believe in Him and in His existence. ** Just because religion says it’s so is not as important as having a real encounter with God. **

The thing is to ask God to give you a sign that He is real. Ask persistently like the bible says until you get what you’re looking for. God is probably revealing Himself to you even as you’re going through this crisis, but you have to make sure your eyes and heart are open to receiving His grace.

Whatever crisis you’re going through, don’t ever give up believing in Him because He’ll never give up on you. If you’ve ever felt a pulling or tugging at your heartstrings while marveling at His creation or had a newfound compassion for something you’ve never felt before, it’s God pouring out His grace upon you. It is God who is in essence reaching out to you and it’s ultimately up to you whether or not to accept His amazing grace.

God Bless

For your consideration:
Overall…good advice…but (specifically highlighted part) is not Catholic doctrine…is actually heretical to Catholic faith…I can see that it fits Protestant theology…but it is not compatible with the ancient:…one…holy…catholic…apostolic… faith…the faith Christ taught the Twelve and his apostles…and that the Twelve and his apostles passed on down the centuries…the faith of the Catholic Church and ancient Christians.
Pax Christi

Catechism of Catholic Church:

I. “LORD, LOOK UPON THE FAITH OF YOUR CHURCH”

**168 It is the Church that believes first, and so bears, nourishes and sustains my faith. Everywhere, it is the Church that first confesses the Lord: **“Throughout the world the holy Church acclaims you”, as we sing in the hymn “Te Deum”; with her and in her, we are won over and brought to confess: “I believe”, “We believe”. It is through the Church that we receive faith and new life in Christ by Baptism. In the Rituale Romanum, the minister of Baptism asks the catechumen: “What do you ask of God’s Church?” And the answer is: “Faith.” “What does faith offer you?” "Eternal life."54

169 Salvation comes from God alone; but because we receive the life of faith through the Church, she is our mother: "We believe the Church as the mother of our new birth, and not in the Church as if she were the author of our salvation."55 Because she is our mother, she is also our teacher in the faith.

III. ONLY ONE FAITH

172 Through the centuries, in so many languages, cultures, peoples and nations, the Church has constantly confessed this one faith, received from the one Lord, transmitted by one Baptism, and grounded in the conviction that all people have only one God and Father.58 St. Irenaeus of Lyons, a witness of this faith, declared:

173 "Indeed, the Church, though scattered throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, having received the faith from the apostles and their disciples. . . guards [this preaching and faith] with care, as dwelling in but a single house, and similarly believes as if having but one soul and a single heart, and preaches, teaches and hands on this faith with a unanimous voice, as if possessing only one mouth."59

174 "For though languages differ throughout the world, the content of the Tradition is one and the same. The Churches established in Germany have no other faith or Tradition, nor do those of the Iberians, nor those of the Celts, nor those of the East, of Egypt, of Libya, nor those established at the center of the world. . ."60 The Church’s message "is true and solid, in which one and the same way of salvation appears throughout the whole world."61

175 "We guard with care the faith that we have received from the Church, for without ceasing, under the action of God’s Spirit, this deposit of great price, as if in an excellent vessel, is constantly being renewed and causes the very vessel that contains it to be renewed."62

**180 “Believing” is a human act, conscious and free, corresponding to the dignity of the human person.

181 “Believing” is an ecclesial act. The Church’s faith precedes, engenders, supports and nourishes our faith. The Church is the mother of all believers. “No one can have God as Father who does not have the Church as Mother” (St. Cyprian, De unit. 6: PL 4, 519).**