I have lose all faith in God

[RRusso1982]

I have been a regular churchgoer. I prayed regularly. I have lost all faith in God though. I hate to say it, but if there was really an all loving and all merciful God, we wouldn’t be in this position right now. People are praying all over the world, but it doesn’t seem to be doing any good. Be honest. Would an all loving God really do this to us, or allow this to happen to us?

 

[adamhovey1988]

What a terrible argument, bad things happening does not disprove God’s existence, nor could it. The problem of evil is quite possibly the weakest argument against the existence of God, because it does not answer the question of why good happens. And as Christians, don’t we realise that good can come out of evil? Isn’t that kind of the point of the crucifixion?

 

[TheLittleLady]

Welcome back!

Would an all loving God really do this to us, or allow this to happen to us?

Would an all loving God allow my husband do die at age 53 of a stroke? Would He allow a 8 year old to get incurable brain cancer? Would an all loving God permit His own Son to be tortured, mocked and executed?

In these times, I have been singing this old hymn:

God hath not promised skies always blue,
Flower-strewn pathways all our lives through;
God hath not promised sun without rain,
Joy without sorrow, peace without pain.

But God hath promised strength for the day,
Rest for the labor, light for the way,
Grace for the trials, help from above,
Unfailing sympathy, undying love.

God hath not promised we shall not know
Toil and temptation, trouble and woe;
He hath not told us we shall not bear
Many a burden, many a care.

But God hath promised strength for the day,
Rest for the labor, light for the way,
Grace for the trials, help from above,
Unfailing sympathy, undying love.

God hath not promised smooth roads and wide,
Swift, easy travel, needing no guide;
Never a mountain, rocky and steep,
Never a river, turbid and deep.

But God hath promised strength for the day,
Rest for the labor, light for the way,
Grace for the trials, help from above,
Unfailing sympathy, undying love.

 

[PennyinCanada]

I have the opposite view. I see this virus as an answer to prayer. A year ago, I could not have guessed what had the power to stop every single sporting event across the globe and over months.

May this time in quiet and stillness bring people back to prayer, back to family ties getting stronger. May there be an awakening to gratitude to people who actually spend their life in service to the public, and less focus and admiration for people in Hollywood who often promote things against God’s wishes for marriage and family life. Let’s correct this upside down thinking we’ve had. May God’s plans for this time be fulfilled, for our good and his glory.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

if there was really an all loving and all merciful God, we wouldn’t be in this position right now. People are praying all over the world, but it doesn’t seem to be doing any good. Be honest. Would an all loving God really do this to us, or allow this to happen to us?

An “all-loving God” in his permissive will allows bad things to happen to people all over the world daily. A lot of those things don’t make the news. As for prayer not doing any good, the prayers benefit at minimum each person who sincerely prays and builds their relationship with God. We also have no way of measuring how bad things might get if we didn’t pray.

If you’re going to lose faith in God every time life isn’t peaches and roses, you need to work on that. Hardships are challenges and opportunities designed to make us more holy. You’re giving up without even starting to try to get more holy. That’s just sad. I will pray for you.

 

[PennyinCanada]

People die every day around the globe. What we’re seeing is the whole world observed Lent. Mass has become available on line. Finally some motivation to make Mass more available! Best Lent ever.

 

[adamhovey1988]

Would an all loving God allow my husband do die at age 53 of a stroke?

Or my dad to die with a wife and four children at 45. Or my niece to die as a baby. The older I get, the more I realise it may be for their benefit. I have some survivor’s guilt over an incident as a teenager, and thinking about it, the people that did die, may have been the people that were ready to die.

 

[Vico]

I have been a regular churchgoer. I prayed regularly. I have lost all faith in God though. I hate to say it, but if there was really an all loving and all merciful God, we wouldn’t be in this position right now. People are praying all over the world, but it doesn’t seem to be doing any good. Be honest. Would an all loving God really do this to us, or allow this to happen to us?

The Holy Trinity created the world that mankind could have the possibility to share in the divine nature (through grace) and live forever in it. Some difficulties are necessary in a world which is imperfect, but there is a greater good.

1 John 2:15-17

15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. The love of the Father is not in those who love the world; 16 for all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 And the world and its desire are passing away, but those who do the will of God live forever.

 

[PetraG]

I have been a regular churchgoer. I prayed regularly. I have lost all faith in God though. I hate to say it, but if there was really an all loving and all merciful God, we wouldn’t be in this position right now. People are praying all over the world, but it doesn’t seem to be doing any good. Be honest. Would an all loving God really do this to us, or allow this to happen to us?

This is going to sound harsh, but: you’ve looked at a crucifix and thought we were promised that evil could never touch us? This is in the GIRM:
308. Likewise, either on the altar or near it, there is to be a cross, with the figure of Christ crucified upon it, a cross clearly visible to the assembled people. It is desirable that such a cross should remain near the altar even outside of liturgical celebrations, so as to call to mind for the faithful the saving Passion of the Lord.

And Our Lord told us:
You will hear of wars and reports of wars; see that you are not alarmed, for these things must happen, but it will not yet be the end. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be famines and earthquakes from place to place. Matt 24: 6-7

I could go on, but my message is only this: We know we live in a vale of tears. We know that both sin and sickness still prowl for us.

"The desert is the home of depair. And despair, now, is everywhere. Let us not think that our interior solitude consists in the acceptance of defeat. We cannot escape anything by consenting tacitly to be defeated. Despair is an abyss without bottom. Do not think to close it by consenting to it and tryinig to forget you have consented.

This, then, is our desert: to live facing despair, but not to consent. To trample it down under hope in the Cross. To wage war against despair unceasingly. That war is our wilderness. If we wage it courageously, we will find Christ at our side. If we cannot face it, we will never find Him."
–Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

I don’t want to leave you with a message of condemnation, though, but of hope!!! This temptation you are feeling is very common!! You are not alone!! Do not look for reasons to consent to despair, though, but pray for the grace to remain in hope!!

 

[Justin_Mary]

I have been a regular churchgoer. I prayed regularly. I have lost all faith in God though. I hate to say it, but if there was really an all loving and all merciful God, we wouldn’t be in this position right now. People are praying all over the world, but it doesn’t seem to be doing any good. Be honest. Would an all loving God really do this to us, or allow this to happen to us?

This is nothing new.

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Why so far from my call for help, from my cries of anguish? My God, I call by day, but you do not answer; by night, but I have no relief.

Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the glory of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted and you rescued them. To you they cried out and they escaped; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.

I know, from my perspective I have a lot to learn about God, about Love. But I trust His Will is love & mercy. So even though what we see right now doesn’t look all lovey dovey, I know in the end all things will work towards good for those that fear the Lord.

All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD; All the families of nations will bow low before him. For kingship belongs to the LORD, the ruler over the nations.

 

[PetraG]

What is the message we see in a Crucifix, after all? Is it that we will all die a terrible death, that we all have a Cross? No, it is that no matter what our cross, Life has been won for us. If we are faithful, God can transform the worst thing in the world into an outcome that will give God glory and give us reason to praise!!