Finding God.

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I don’t know if I am doing the right thing here, as I may be beyond help, which I suspect I am. Nonetheless I thought that in spite of my life of sin and my agnosticism, I should try to redress the wrongness of my ways.

I don’t believe in God, but I want to.

I am not a Scientist and I believe that Science can’t prove or disprove God and I don’t think fossils of dinosaurs disprove god as he could have made them before man existed.

But some people say they believe in God out of faith, and I have never experienced this faith. I am just wondering if it is possible for me to develope it. I have tryed praying to God but I got no responce.

Is it still possible for me to find God or do I have too much sin? I want to be like Jesus. I don’t know what I should do now. My whole life has been stricken with sin.
 
I don’t believe in God, but I want to.
And this is the first requirement of faith, which allows God in. Faith is a gift, a grace as we Christians put it. God will not broach your free will by forcing you to believe in Him, but He will help you to believe if you ask Him. Belief requires the humility that allows you to take that step in the dark, asking for help from someone whom do you not yet know to be there. Its hard, but necessary.
Is it still possible for me to find God or do I have too much sin? I want to be like Jesus. I don’t know what I should do now. My whole life has been stricken with sin.
No-one has so much sin that they are beyond God’s love. The sacrifice of Jesus was for all people, not just the sinless - remember that he spent most of his ministry with people who were considered beyond salvation within his society - taxpayers, prostitutes, non-Jews. The weight of our human weakness is unbearable at times, and this is why only God can help us to bear it.

Prayers and best wishes for you in your painful journey.
 
I don’t know if I am doing the right thing here, as I may be beyond help, which I suspect I am. Nonetheless I thought that in spite of my life of sin and my agnosticism, I should try to redress the wrongness of my ways.

I don’t believe in God, but I want to.
I have little doubt that you will arrive at your desire The key at this point is to pray, and have others pray for you. Therefore, I have three good recommendations:

1.) Start praying to God in your own words. Just open your heart to Him and tell him what you are thinking.

2.) Send a letter to a few convents explaining your situation and requesting that the nuns pray for you. Send a letter to The Missionaries of Charity (Mother Theresa’s nuns), and also to the nuns at EWTN (Mother Angica’s nuns). Explain to them exactly what you did above and then ask them to please pray for you.

3.) The third recommendation is a book. It is called My Daily Bread. This is a very good book that takes your through the spiritual life in a gentle way. God can use such books to help us. This is one of the books that I first read. I actually read it cover to cover at the first sitting, I liked it so much.

If you will do these three things, I think you will obtain what you are seeking. I will be praying for you starting today and I ask everyone else who reads this to do the same.

Persevere in your prayers and keep us posted.
 
It has been my experience that we do not find God… God finds us! 😃 I would suspect that whatever thoughts or feelings which brought you to question your beliefs is God seeking you. I agree with the suggestions of the previous 2 posters as well. Pray, keep your mind and heart open, let God work.
 
If you cannot believe in God, then do what you would if you did believe.

Even if it feels you are speaking to no one, find a time when you can sit somewhere alone and confess to God all those things in your life that you regret, all the sins you can remember.
Tell God you wish you hadn’t done them.
Tell God that you are sorry. And ask God to forgive you.
Tell God you don’t want to do wrong again and that you will try to do good.
Say to God, if You are there please give me strength to live a life that is good.
Even if you cannot sense God’s presence or even believe in God, you have done well to do this.

Then try to live in kindness to others, in any small or big way you can.
In doing these things you are doing the most you can manage.
What I’m basically telling you is to live as a Christian whether you believe or not, and trust in God whom you do not know to welcome you. I’ve given you some quotes from the bible to guide you how to love God even if you don’t know Him yet, and about loving others.

Faith is a gift of God. Ask God for faith. Even if God doesn’t give you faith, continue to live as above, asking God’s forgiveness for any failures, and trying again and again to live in kindness and respect for others. I will pray for you, because with faith in God and in living with the benefit of the sacraments are gifts of God given to those who believe, and life is more difficult without them. Don’t ever give up seeking God, but if you don’t find Him but you still live a good Christian life, trust in God’s mercy.

Remember in your life the message of God in these words of Jesus, and if you live them, trust in His mercy.

Matthew 25 verses 31-46.
“The Last Judgement”
“When the Son of Man comes in all His glory, escorted by all the angels, then he will take his seat on his throne of glory. All the nations will be assembled before him and he will separate men from one another as the shepherd separates sheep from goats.
He will place the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left. then the King shall say to those on his right hand**,” Come you whom my Father has blessed, take for your heritage the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was a stranger and you made me welcome. I was thristy and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you made me welcome; naked and you clothed me; sick and you visited me, in prison and you came to see me.**
**Then the virtuous will say to him in reply, "Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you; or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you hungry and feed you; or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and make you welcome; naked and clothe you; sick or in prison and go to see you?

And the King will answer, " I tell you solemnly, in so far as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me."**
Next he will say to those on his left “Go away from me with your curse upon you, to the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels, for when I was hungry you never gave me food; I was thirsty and you never gave me anything to drink; I was a stranger and you never made me welcome, naked and you never clothed me, sick and in prison and you never visited me.”
Then it will be their turn to ask, “Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty; a stranger or naked, sick or in prison, and not come to your help?”
Then he will answer, “I tell you solemnly, in so far as you neglected to do this to one of the least of these, you neglected to do it to me.” And they will go away to eternal punishment, and the virtuous to eternal life."

And since Jesus is the one who will judge all of us, **we can believe His words that our salvation depends upon our charity towards other people, which He regards as charity directly given to Him. **

**Matthew 5:43 “You have heard that it has been said, ‘You shall love your neighbour, and hate your enemy.’ But I say unto you, Love your enemies”

Matthew 19:19, “If you would enter into life, keep the commandments. He said to him, ‘Which?’ Jesus said, ‘You shall do no murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Honour your father and your mother: and, You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’”

When Jesus was asked, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” he replied, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind’ - this is the great and foremost commandment, and there is a second like it, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself’. The whole Law and Prophets hang on these two commands.” (Mtt 22:37-40, Mrk 12:28-34).

“Anyone who says ‘I love God’, and hates his brother is a liar, since a person who does not love the brother that he can see, cannot love God whom he has never seen.” [1 letter of John 4:20-21]** What this scripture can say to you is that you can love God in dealing rightly with other people if there is no other way you can. But God will not overlook your sincere desire to know Him.
 
God bless you Fesov - you have one of the best ingredients already - a humble and contrite heart. There’s no such thing as too much sin - as Fr. Corapi says if you took all the sin of the world for all time and distilled it into one, it would be be a drop in the ocean of God’s mercy. Jesus has overcome the world - including sin, death - He has conquered it all. We just have to accept the victory which you are on the path to. Every journey has to start with the first step. I would say go to confession. Do a good examination of conscience, there are many good tools for this on the web. Scott Hahn has some good ones at thend of one of his books - Lord Have Mercy.
The other thing I would suggest is live a cursillo weekend. You can find a weekend in your area via a web search. Cursillo is a Spanish word that means ‘short course’ in Christianity. If you were in the Massachusetts area, I could direct you to a great cursillo program up here. The other teacher I would recommend is Fr. Corapi. Many of his materials are educational from the ground up, he really has assisted me with fundamental teaching that is our faith.
Anyway, God bless you, He’s been loving you from all eternity and He will continue loving you. And the rest of your brothers and sisters out here are all lifted by your desire to repent and find new life.
 
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