I have to know...

[Afterthought]

…Why do you believe in your faith?
…Why do/did you doubt that faith/portions of it?
…What changed your mind about those doubts?
…What makes you positive your faith is right and that all others are wrong?
…What is appealing to the faith?
…Why do others follow this faith?
…What do you do if you disagree with something in the faith?
…What makes you happy/content with this faith?
…Is it possible for you to accept others and their faith, even if it opposes your own?

My father was a Catholic and my mother was a Taoist.

If you have a minute or two, I’d love for you to answer one or two of those questions. This is more or less personal insight for evaluation.

I apologize if this is the wrong board and would greatly appreciate redirection if said is the case.

:tissues: -Afterthought

 

[apromisemade]

Well, to answer even one of those question completley would be an epic tale, to say the least.

Why do I have faith?
How do I contend with doubt?

Well, I stopped going to sunday school a long time ago. But even though I wasn’t going to church, there was just something about it. Whenever I looked out on the world, I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something bigger, something underneath it all, binding it together. Even when I doubted if anyone was listening, whenever I said the Lords prayer, for those few moments, it felt like the weight of the world was lifted off my shoulders. Whenever I sat in a church or held my childrens Bible close, those were the only times the chaos and chatter in my mind would really grow quiet. And then there was that little voice inside my heart, the one I heard at the most unexpected moment that I could never explain, but that never steered me wrong. My faith is a flame that has sometimes been a passionate fire, other times no more than a simmering coal. But it has never gone.

 

[survive]

…Why do you believe in your faith?
…Why do/did you doubt that faith/portions of it?
…What changed your mind about those doubts?
…What makes you positive your faith is right and that all others are wrong?
…What is appealing to the faith?
…Why do others follow this faith?
…What do you do if you disagree with something in the faith?
…What makes you happy/content with this faith?
…Is it possible for you to accept others and their faith, even if it opposes your own?

My father was a Catholic and my mother was a Taoist.

If you have a minute or two, I’d love for you to answer one or two of those questions. This is more or less personal insight for evaluation.

I apologize if this is the wrong board and would greatly appreciate redirection if said is the case.

:tissues: -Afterthought

How about a post for each one or two, all the way down the list? That would be a long task.
To begin:I believe in my Catholic faith after a lifetime of following a flow chart of possible beliefs. It begins with “Reality is real.” I grew up in some chaos, and learned that denying the reality of what exists does not provide accurate predictability of results. Therefore, I reluctantly discarded the idea that nothing is real, that only the self is real, that nothing can be known and that only the self can be known. Any one of those issues would fill a whole forum, so there is no room to detail these expereinces, but life taught me that reality is real, and it is not all just me and my thoughts.
Since experiences I have had all my life showed me that it was going to be a useless effort to keep trying to find natural explanations for all of them all the time, I released the idea that “natural explanation” and “rational explanation” mean the same thing, and could no longer accept the assumption that it is more rational to be a naturalist/materialist/radical atheist. I refuse to give naturalists the title they give themselves, “rationalists”.
Indeed, it seems to me that accepting the reality of the supernatural is a necessary part of any rational view.
Next, experience taught me that good and evil exist, and that this is so in both the natural and the supernatural realities. Attempts to apply moral relativism or pragmatism to either resulted in terrible things. The assumption that more reliably predicted the result of an action or choice was that there are good and evil, and there is supernatural good, and supernatural evil, and they are interested in the natural, in people. The very nature of the things I saw and went through showed me that both good and evil supernatural beings are conscious, interested in communicating and acting on the natural world, and capable of doing so, and that they oppose each other, rather than cooperating for some sort of balance or competing for territories; they are enemies to each other, not mere competitors or co-existors. It would take more than a couple of long posts to detail these experiences, but earlier posts I have made refer to a few of these events, in several sub-fora here.
Eventually, I studied ancient systems of prediction and read prophecies from many cultures. Of the ancient prophecies, a number are conjectured by modern people. A few can be found and accurately translated. Of these, a majority are unfulfilled, often with passed deadlines, and can be considered false.
There is a large body of ancient prophecy that is proven to have been at least largely made before established historic fulfillment. The best record of undeniably fulfilled prophecies is that of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Further examination showed me that praying to Jesus Christ produced tangible positive results much mroe reliably than any spell, meditaiton, visualization exercise or prayer to other deities, and could be considered a successful experiment.
Researching the history of textual criticism and ANE historiography and other related sciences, I learned that the extremely liberal form of interpretation of Judeo-Christian history and criticism I had been given for so many years was not the last word, and in most areas was based on one thing – circular argument. Reflecting on the kindness, longsuffering, mildness, strength, resiliency, joy and deep human dignity of most of the Christians I’d encountered, I wondered why I harbored such prejudice against them. When I tried to broach this topic with anti-Christian friends, I got a lot of heat and no reasoning to speak of.
So my willingness to consider the Christian worldview opened little by little, a base at a time. I looked into it more hungrily.
One night, as I was reading a New-Age oriented book about the life of Jesus, I thought about His attitude toward outcasts and people who couldn’t do Him any material good. He loved them. I muttered, “That sounds like a guy I wouldn’t have minded knowing,” meaning back then, on the roads of old Judea. I heard a voice (not a common kind of thing for me). The voice said, “Why not?” I froze.
In the morning, I met with a Christian family member, who had taken all the household’s heat for years for becoming one, and he prayed and talked with me, just reasoning, discussing, and letting me control the flow, and I felt a storm rage in the air. A week later I was a strong believer, and had mentally dedicated my life to Jesus Christ. It was after a long journey through churches and denominations and doctrines that I found my way to the Catholic Church. I have posted that segment recently, if you would care to search it, or I’ll detail it for you if you’re interested.

 

[BobVera]

…Why do you believe in your faith?
God gave me the grace to believe.
…Why do/did you doubt that faith/portions of it?
Life has many difficulties.
…What changed your mind about those doubts?
All difficulties can be overcome by accepting the Will of God.
…What makes you positive your faith is right and that all others are wrong?
I have faith in my Faith.
…What is appealing to the faith?
It does not end. There is something greater than I.
…Why do others follow this faith?
Ask them.
…What do you do if you disagree with something in the faith?
I have a great number of resources available. I have not found anything within Catholicism that I disagree with morally or in light of the theological virtues. That does not mean I have always been happy with Catholic teaching - but I accept it.
…What makes you happy/content with this faith?
Reception of the sacraments.
…Is it possible for you to accept others and their faith, even if it opposes your own?
Yes, with exceptions.

I have tried to answer your questions as I have interpretted them. I really do not see faith ONLY as something one believes. Rather, faith is something one lives. It then follows that my faith is imperfect because I live imperfectly. Absolute faith is a goal.

God Bless,
Bob

 

[CatsAndDogs]

…Why do you believe in your faith?

Because it’s true.

…Why do/did you doubt that faith/portions of it?

I occasionally doubt my understanding of some dogma, but never doubt the truth OF any dogma.

…What changed your mind about those doubts?

Religious education is about learning to understand why dogma is as it is by fitting it and it’s theological explanations into the whole Deposit of Faith so that that “fit” makes sense to the student. These not-yet-understandings (doubts) gradually make sense, or not, depending on the “mysteriousness” of the particular dogma, but the dogmas themselves are never to be seen as not true.

…What makes you positive your faith is right and that all others are wrong?

All others are not completely wrong, but they are partly wrong, unlike the Church (Catholic) which is entirely correct in matters of faith and morals (and possibly other things as well). I know this due to private revelations which say that the Church is as she says she is, which has been confirmed by non-contradiction with the public revelation of the Church (as yet at any rate).

…What is appealing to the faith?

Truth is appealing.

…Why do others follow this faith?

Because they love truth, the most fullness of the truth, more than “efficiency” or “convenience”.

…What do you do if you disagree with something in the faith?

I can’t disagree with dogma, but am free to disagree with nearly anything else, save for disciplinary matters, which I may still disagree with but am committed to be docile to.

…What makes you happy/content with this faith?

Operating within the truth makes responding to the world easy (as to deciding what to do), but more often than not difficult (because doing the right thing is often hard and painful).

…Is it possible for you to accept others and their faith, even if it opposes your own?

Since it is not permissible to coerce anyone as regards their religion, I accept that they are who they are, and that they are in need of evangelization to come more closely into communion with the Church.

Any questions?

:shamrock2:

 

[survive]

Doubts – to me, they’re what-ifs. They add up the same as asking “what if we spent dogs instead of dollars?” Accepting these what-ifs as real possibilities would offer no new insight by this point, and it would be absurd. I dismiss doubting thoughts as readily as thoughts of eating the moon like a cookie; the stuff of an earlier stage of development. I suppose when they do drift in it’s part of having religion on my mind all the time. What-ifs just raise themselves and fade again on any subject anyone thinks about all the time.
To me, questions 3, 4, 5 and 8 are answered in my answer to question 1, which I will happily finish if you’d like.
Others? I read stories on the forums and apologetics blogs and books. It seems there are lots of reasons.
When I disagree with something, I reflect on the reasons for my disagreement and examine what people have had to say about it in the past. It has happened that my disagreement was totally emotional, or a matter of taste, and not at all objective. Other times, it was a difficulty with understanding what the church teaches in the first place. One example is the advice a saint gave, based on the saint’s own personal experience with a problem. The advice typically doesn’t work for the rest of us. However, it’s the intention that counts. No one said saints were omniscient, they’re just holy people – they just love God. As a result, they’re close to God. that’s actually comforting, because I want to be with God, and I’m not all-knowing, myself.
Sometimes I balk at doing things when I don’t feel like it. In those situations, I try to remember it’s not hard to drag myself out of bed Sunday mornings, and it’s worth it in so many ways.

 

[Blade_and_Blood]

…Why do you believe in your faith?
…Why do/did you doubt that faith/portions of it?
…What changed your mind about those doubts?
…What makes you positive your faith is right and that all others are wrong?
…What is appealing to the faith?
…Why do others follow this faith?
…What do you do if you disagree with something in the faith?
…What makes you happy/content with this faith?
…Is it possible for you to accept others and their faith, even if it opposes your own?

My father was a Catholic and my mother was a Taoist.

If you have a minute or two, I’d love for you to answer one or two of those questions. This is more or less personal insight for evaluation.

I apologize if this is the wrong board and would greatly appreciate redirection if said is the case.

:tissues: -Afterthought

1. I believed in my faith because it was all I knew. I made a big mistake when I decided to learn more about the world around me. I have no regrets.
2. I doubted some of Catholicism because it became illogical, to an unbearable extent. I felt very uncomfortable, but I’m glad I had the experience of being a part of the Church and even being confirmed. Once again, I have no regrets.
3. I’ve stopped setting my beliefs in stone, so I continue to learn. I have never looked back in guilt or shame.
4. I wasn’t positive then, and I am not positive now. But what I do know: There is a God. I can feel it. If I’m wrong, I’ll be amazed, but not discouraged. I don’t really think there is a “wrong” faith, but there are those precious couple of religions that I just do not trust. I will not name them. (No, it isn’t Catholicism.)
5. Being Agnostic (either with or without the knowledge of God’s existence) would not be appealing for anyone until you look at it in retrospect.
6. Agnostics, in general, follow Agnosticism because they believe they don’t know and neither do you. But I am not necessarily like that. I am well-aware that others of a certain faith could not tell the difference between belief and knowledge.
7. I usually keep quiet because I like to hear what they have to say. It’s almost a hopeless cause with any person of any faith (or lack of it) to convince them otherwise. I am perfectly okay with that.
8. My personal state of mind right now makes me happy because I know I can have heaven whenever I quiet the conflicts within myself and others. I believe there is a way to be at peace at God’s side without the fear of dying… even though, the knowledge of Death at any Time is fully understood and very real.
9. Religious tolerance is one thing I promote. I love the diversity and accept the reality of many faiths being practiced. I am fully alright with it so long as they practice responsibly.

-Afterthought: Thank you for posting this thread. I like a good questionnaire every once in awhile.

Ironically Yours, Blade and Blood

 

[Matthias123]

God called me when I fell away from the Church. I knew he was there, but I rejected him because I loved my self more then I loved him.

God reached down to me and I chose to repent. Not only did he pull me out of the Kingdom of Lucifer, he pulled me so hard and so fast into his arms that I am still spinning.

Praised be Jesus Christ.

I recommend you spend time and prayer in front of the Blessed Sacrament. Bask in the rays of God the Son.

Let it be known that he loves you so much that he will never force himself on you. The only way to have a relationship with him is by your own will.

 

[Eucharisted]

Good questions!

…Why do you believe in your faith?

Because God called me to Himself, and He had promised to give His Church the Spirit of Truth, who would lead the Church into all truths, and He gave the Spirit on Pentecost, giving birth to the Church, and the Spirit leads the Church into all truths, deepening our understanding of the mysteries of our faith, and because the Spirit is God, and God is the truth, and the truth can not decieve nor be decieved, I know that the Church, guided by the Spirit of God, cannot deceive nor be decieved in her teachings, i.e., she is unable to error in faith and moral, that is, she is infallible. And that is why I believe in the Catholic Faith.

…Why do/did you doubt that faith/portions of it?

Many are tempted to doubt, but not all given into doubt.

…What changed your mind about those doubts?

I have doubted many times, but each time God has reminded me of the truths professed by the Catholic Church, and so, I come back to my senses.*

…What makes you positive your faith is right and that all others are wrong?

Because the Catholic Church is infallible, and her teachings, far from being grounded in belief and imagination and visions and dreams, are actually grounded in history, reality, and truth. They are grounded in history because, first all, Jesus is risen from the dead, and all else is grounded in history because of the historical existence of the prophets and persons of the Bible and the saints and martyrs of the Church, though many legends do surround them (but legends do equal historicity); they are grounded in reality because, first of all, God is reality and He has created a space-time contiuum, and what He dose He dose really, it is no myth nor illusion nor something which is simply nature, though He works through His creation and through His creatures (solar eclipses, evolution, etc.); and they are grounded in truth because, first of all, Jesus is God and God is the truth itself, and all else is grounded in truth because God has, throughout history, permitted evil to bring out greater goods - for example, the death of Jesus to bring out the redemption of man - and acted as the Lord of history in bringing certain events to light in order to teach His People about Himself and His Will and His works, ultimately for their salvation and the salvation of the whole wide world through them (for God is Salvation and He works through His Body, that is, His People, whom He has made His Bride via the covenant, and just as a husband and wife become united through sexual intercourse, so too has God and His People become one through covenant).

As far as other faiths being wrong, they are only wrong in as far as they deny or reject what is the truth, and they are correct when they accept and acknowledge what is the truth. All faiths share in the truth, to a degree or another, and the Catholic Faith, because it is the fulfillment of the Jewish faith, has the fullness of the truth. This isn’t to say that all other faiths share in the Catholic faith to a degree or another, but rather, that they, like Catholicism, adhere to the absolute truth to a degree or another. No religion is a monopoly on truth. The truth trascends mankind, because God is the truth. (Sorry for repeating myself)

…What is appealing to the faith?

Holiness, justice, love and mercy: for the Church is Holy, and she is just, loving and merciful, a true shining image of the Lord, who’s attributes are holiness, justice, and love and mercy.

…Why do others follow this faith?

Because they see the beauty of the Catholic Faith and know that is founded on history, reality, and truth. By beauty I mean the holiness, justice, love and mercy of the Church and the truthfulness of the Faith and the art and icons of Christianity. Though there have been many who do evil yet call themselves Christian, the triune Church is holy, resembling the Holy Trinity and foreshadowed by the Holy Family, and the Church, like a good mother, claspes sinners - for we are all sinners - to her bosom.

…What do you do if you disagree with something in the faith?

You mean if you’re not sure with something? You see if the Church teaches it. And if the Church dose but you don’t agree that it is true, than you must swallow your self-love and submit to God. We may not understand everything, but that dosen’t mean we shouldn’t follow God. Some would say we are blind who follow the blind, but God is not blind - He is shining light, the light of the world.

…What makes you happy/content with this faith?

The Catholic Faith is founded on truth, reality, and history. God is my happiness. Religion is a virtue, it is man’s response to God, it is him giving what belongs to God. The fruits of this virtue are prayer, fasting, and almsgiving - that is, prayer, sacrifice, and charity, or, to put it even simplier terms, living in God (God is love). Man must give to his Creator and Redeemer what he owes Him, simply out of justice, and dose so by returning love for love and mercy for mercy, just as man must “give to Caeser what belongs to Caeser”.

…Is it possible for you to accept others and their faith, even if it opposes your own?

As Christians, we are called to charity. If we do not love, we are not Christians but liars, for if we say we love God but hate our brothers, than we do not truly love God, because we must love our neighbors as ourselves - we must become neighbors for others - in accordance to the commandment of charity: love of God and love of man.

 

[Eucharisted]

*Certainly God could have left me to my own conclusions, but He, who is truth, is compelled to lead me back to the truth, though He dosen’t have to, He can leave me to myself, since He has the freedom to all the goodness He wants, but it is precisely because of this freedom that He is compelled to lead me back to the truth, yet if I spurn His inspirations than He dose leave me, not wishing to impose Himself on me, since He respects His creature’s free-will, just as a lover respect his love’s will. But God, who is superabundantly - supernaturally - divinely - merciful, rewards me for rejecting doubt and holding firm to truth, though I only act out of justice, and indeed, He Himself works through me, He being goodness itself, yet even still He rewards me, out of mercy, just as out of mercy He created me, for mercy is the crown of all His works, and because mercy - along with peace and joy - is a fruit of love, than God is truly love, and, because mercy, peace, and joy are the fruits of love, He is peace itself, happiness itself, and mercy itself - and He is love itself because He is goodness itself, and one could say He is goodness because He is love, for love is the perfection of goodness. (sorry for going off topic)

 

[Viki63]

One night, as I was reading a New-Age oriented book about the life of Jesus, I thought about His attitude toward outcasts and people who couldn’t do Him any material good. He loved them. I muttered, “That sounds like a guy I wouldn’t have minded knowing,” meaning back then, on the roads of old Judea. I heard a voice (not a common kind of thing for me). The voice said, “Why not?” I froze.
.

I too heard that voice, not aloud but clearly not coming from my own thoughts. At a crucial time in my life, it said, “Read the Bible.”
I started reading the New Testament, and realized that Jesus is the Truth, and eventually that following Him resolved all the contradictions and problems that I had faced.
Thanks be to God.

 

[survive]

I too heard that voice, not aloud but clearly not coming from my own thoughts. At a crucial time in my life, it said, “Read the Bible.”
I started reading the New Testament, and realized that Jesus is the Truth, and eventually that following Him resolved all the contradictions and problems that I had faced.
Thanks be to God.

Amen!:bible1:
On to question nine:
I see accepting people and accepting ideas or claims (such as a faith) as different uses of the word “accept” entirely. To accept a person is to believe it is OK to spend time with and relax with that person; this is a function of many factors, faith being just one, personality and familiarity playing their own roles, and our mutual backstory telling me whether this is reasonable with an individual. Accepting a faith is the same thing as believing it. I could no more accept Zen Buddhism or Krishna Consciousness or Baha’i Faith or atheism, e.g., than I could accept the statement that Avogadro’s Number is twenty-three. It isn’t true, that’s all.

 

[tabsie3210]

1. Why do you believe in your faith?

It makes logical sense in light of the world’s behavior. Humans are drawn to justice and mercy, but commit sins, and then feel guilty for them most of the time. No other religion really deals with sin as a personal responsibility. I like being held accountable, because it… it just seems more fair.

1. Why do/did you doubt that faith/portions of it?

I suffer from Major Depression and Panic/Anxiety disorder. Because of that, I have overblown death anxiety, and that means sometimes my panic will leave me feeling empty. But it’s just the Dark Night of the Soul for me, and I know better in my happier moments.

1. What changed your mind about those doubts?

First, getting on the right medication to get rid of the nighttime terrors. Second, learning more about science. Third, walking away from New Age philosophy and Wicca. They were both interesting, but I realized neither of them had any kinds of answers. My Wiccan friends have been saying for years that they’ve done money spells and have prayed to their goddess and she has shown them visions that they’ll win the lotto. Hasn’t happened yet, and they keep making poor financial choices, so they’re getting sunk. They might win the lotto (as much as they play), but if they do, it seems to me it’d be more of a fluke than a prayer answer. That brought me around to more traditional, orthodox thinking, which got me back fully into the Church.

1. What makes you positive your faith is right and that all others are wrong?

It’s the only one that gives complete answers and explains things clearly and precisely, without being unnecessarily vague. Compare to, say, Hinduism. Hinduism says that the world is the manifestation of Bramah (spelling?), that God is unmanifest and therefore cannot be known, and all their gods are God made manifest so we can understand them, but without any actual history to go by. They’re mostly stories. Catholicism started in time, in space, in a place we know, within history, and God is not some vague being we cannot ever comprehend, but rather He is Incarnated into a human being, who explained Him in detail, told us how to please Him, and who actually lived exactly like we did for the longest time, only free of sin. Buddah, as another example, detached from the world and called the material world bad, while the spiritual world was good, insofar as one can eventually cease to exist and no longer suffer. To avoid suffering, one must avoid the world. Christ not only didn’t avoid suffering, he embraced it, and he also embraced the physical world as being good, while not dismissing the spiritual world.

1. What is appealing to the faith?

It’s got roots, solid ones, and anyway, I just love to worship God, so this feels like the right way to do it.

1. Why do others follow this faith?

I can’t say for certain, because there are many factors involved, but I’d say I agree with an earlier poster - everyone who believes has the Grace of God to do so.

1. What do you do if you disagree with something in the faith?

I hash it out on the boards, list my objections, take in information from others, talk to a priest about it, sit, study, pray, and haven’t found any answers I don’t like yet, so I follow what I find.

1. What makes you happy/content with this faith?

Random acts of God. Seriously, I’ll be driving along and He’ll be there with me so strongly I can’t help but love Him. It’s a lot stronger than anything else I could think of.

1. Is it possible for you to accept others and their faith, even if it opposes your own?

That depends on what you mean by “accept.” I haven’t got a huge group of friends, since I’m a bit of a loner. Most of my friends either believe in God but not in any religion, or they’re pagan (one family that I’m close to is entirely Wiccan). I love them dearly and I pray for them, even though I think they’re wrong. Accept their beliefs though? No. I never see any of them get what they want the way they say they will. Never seem satisfied or happy to me. New Age beliefs promise a lot and don’t deliver very much. I’m sorry, but I tried a few times and it didn’t appeal to me. I gave up my Enochian Tarot deck and threw it in the trash. Before that I studied it a little and found it made no sense, especially the part about standing naked and striking poses to bring forth a particular goddess within you. Nothing I did ever made any kind of sense to me - the rituals had no meaning, the “spells” were strange and had no connection to reality, and nothing ever worked. Granted, at the time I was still fully committed to there being only one God, so I had issues with the goddess parts (and some say that has hindered my abilities), but I believe these days that nothing outside the Catholic Church makes any kind of logical sense.

 

[survive]

New Age beliefs promise a lot and don’t deliver very much. I’m sorry, but I tried a few times and it didn’t appeal to me. I gave up my Enochian Tarot deck and threw it in the trash. Before that I studied it a little and found it made no sense, especially the part about standing naked and striking poses to bring forth a particular goddess within you. Nothing I did ever made any kind of sense to me - the rituals had no meaning, the “spells” were strange and had no connection to reality, and nothing ever worked.

I remember my New Age/ Neopagan/occult times, and you nailed it right there. it made no sense, was unsupported by history or trial, and didn’t produce results consistent with its promises or claims.

 

[m134e5]

Why do you believe in your faith?

Because, so far, it has given me the only explanation for man’s existance, for pain and suffering, and for hope of a better future.

Why do/did you doubt that faith/portions of it?

Because I was uninformed about the teachings of the Catholic Church, and because I had seen many bad examples of Christians while I was growing up.

What changed your mind about those doubts?

The grace of God, really.

What makes you positive your faith is right and that all others are wrong?

Faith, and the fact that I would not be here today if it weren’t for my faith.

What is appealing to the faith?

Everything

Why do others follow this faith?

Either because they see the same thing I see in it, they feel some sort of cultural attachment to it, because they don’t see the point in going anywhere else, or they have researched the Faith through scripture study and by reading the writings of early Christians and have come to believe that the Church is the one Christ founded.

What do you do if you disagree with something in the faith?

I ask God for the gift of understanding. In the meantime, I keep the matter to myself, and I go on practicing my faith- trusting that even though I do not understand something, the Church is the one Christ founded and promised that the gates of hell wouldn’t prevail against.

What makes you happy/content with this faith?

The fact that it’s true.

Is it possible for you to accept others and their faith, even if it opposes your own?

Accept, yes- but I love my faith too much to really concern myself with the details of someone else’s. I generally don’t discuss my faith with people who are of other faiths. I am not good at apologetics, and have no need to stand around and listen to people question what is the only thing worth having in my life.

 

[mark_a]

…Why do/did you doubt that faith/portions of it?

I did not inform myself about the faith and was an easy target for well-intentioned Protestants who knew even less than I did.

…What changed your mind about those doubts?

The Catholic Church has the correct moral theology.

…What makes you positive your faith is right and that all others are wrong?

See the answer above

…What do you do if you disagree with something in the faith?

I study and find out I was wrong

…Is it possible for you to accept others and their faith, even if it opposes your own?

absolutely