Scared that I'm Iosing faith in God

[steve_b]

I am starting to have doubts in religion and God. I will list you three reasons as to why.

1. The concept of Hell. How and why would a loving God send people to a place where they will be tortured for all eternity? Imagine that you’re a parent and your child does something REALLY bad, would you want them to burn forever? No one asked to be born, so basically God involuntarily entered you into this game called life and if you don’t play by His rules then you will burn in Hell.

Just so there are no misconceptions about predestination, (which you hint at) here is what it isn’t Predestinarianism
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1. Evidence. There’s not a lot of evidence that some things in the Bible actually happened. Things like the Exodus, Moses existing, the Genesis story, the Great Flood, and the Plagues in Exodus. If God wanted us to believe in him, then why didn’t he make it clear to us that all of these things happened? Why would someone be punished after death for not believing things that there isn’t sufficient evidence for?

taking one of those examples, When Jesus was transfigured, Peter James & John were with Him and saw Moses and Elijah at that event and talked with them Matthew 17:4 .

Bottomline, We have sufficient evidence for Jesus being real, as well as what He did and taught.
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1. Why would God allow bad things to happen such as the Holocaust, slavery, world hunger, and world poverty? I’ve heard the “free will” argument, but would a loving God really sit by and do relatively nothing to stop these events from happening? Did He ignore the people praying on slave ships or the people who prayed who were destined to die during the Holocaust?

Everything you mention is caused by human sin. God desires us to be with Him for all eternity, but He won’t force us to be with Him.

 

[fred_conty]

TonyM17, here are some people who did experience the kind touch of God as people did when Jesus touched them in the Gospels.

a Man was miraculously given back his right leg, which was amputated years prior.

therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/english_pdf/Calanda.pdf

A little girl made well by the Blessed Virgin.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=715460

A boy who had suffered severe brain damage.

therealpresence.org/archives/Miracles/Miracles_002.htm

A woman paralysed in both legs.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=735495

May God bless and keep you. May God’s face shine on you. May God be kind to you and give you peace.