If faith is a gift...

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If faith is a gift from God then what does that say about someone who loses their faith? Does God take the gift away? Or rather, do we say, a person rejects the gift? But this is hard to wrap my head around, I don’t think that everyone who loses their faith does so willingly, i.e. intending or desiring it to happen. Since faith was not a personal achievement to begin with, it is not apparent how the loss of faith is a personal failure, I don’t mean the circumstances of the loss of faith (e.g. negligence in studying) but loss of faith considered in-and-of-itself.
 
I would say that they reject the gift, since God offers the gift to everyone.

What kind of instance would you say would cause someone to lose their faith unwillingly?
 
God’s gifts are ours to use. Yet, they are spiritual and not material gifts. It is when we stop using them that we are said to have lost them.
 
bzkoss236 said:
I would say that they reject the gift, since God offers the gift to everyone.

What kind of instance would you say would cause someone to lose their faith unwillingly?
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I agree that losing your faith is really rejecting the gift after it’s been offered. Also some may unwillingly reject the faith or lose their faith after a tragedy happens. I think that’s the main reason why some may unwillingly reject God’s gift. 🤷
 
I would say people become luke warm because of all the external distractions. You have to will to love God…you have to will to have faith because sometimes it ain’t so easy. We fall asleep until something wakes us up.

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Skye_Ariel said:
I agree that losing your faith is really rejecting the gift after it’s been offered. Also some may unwillingly reject the faith or lose their faith after a tragedy happens. I think that’s the main reason why some may unwillingly reject God’s gift. 🤷
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I wouldn’t call that unwilling. I would consider that willful rejection based on emotions, while not rational rejection, it is still willful rejection. After the person has calmed down, they can think rationally and hopefully see the error, and correct it.

For it to truly be unwilling, it would have to be forcibly taken away, which is just not possible.
 
bzkoss236 said:
I wouldn’t call that unwilling. I would consider that willful rejection based on emotions, while not rational rejection, it is still willful rejection. After the person has calmed down, they can think rationally and hopefully see the error, and correct it.

For it to truly be unwilling, it would have to be forcibly taken away, which is just not possible.
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Oh okay good point. 🙂
 
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