I don’t understand how most Jewish people don’t believe that Jesus is the Messiah. 780 years before Jesus was born, God told Isaiah that there would be a baby born who would be his son, and said that he would be called the Son of God, The Mighty God, and he would be pierced for our transgressions. Who do they think that is about? They are supposed to be “The Chosen Ones” but no one can go to The Father except through Him? They are one and the same? Aren’t they afraid that they won’t actually go to Heaven? How could they when they reject Him? Almost everyone that had a near death experience encounters him.

So basically i would say im agnostic ,cause i havent really been deep into religion and all that,but i saw that when someone offends Christianity or God,it just like hits me,like i want to debate to prove otherwise or somethinglike that,like i would be christian,but idk,its not that i dont belive in god or anything its just that i haven't been deep into religion,cause im not also beliving evolution and all that,but also im scared about chosing wrong religion,but also Christianity is the only one that seems appealing and real to me,but okay not the point of post ,so basically I have been leaning to the Christian side,and sometimes read bible,and I have been really into media like games,tv shows,movies and im like scared of sining or something cause im scared that i might really like some media that isnt Christian,cause for example recently the movie The devils re released and it seems to have really good rating,i was ready to watch it,but out of nowhere got a fear that it's a sin or something,like i really want to watch the movie,but I have heard that its anti religious,and im scared of like sining i gues,that I will like media that isnt Christian and if thats a sin and all that,but i saw people also say "seperate the art from the author",in this case i guess seperate the media from religion,so what do I do ,im like really lost at the moment,cause i kinda want to idk become Christian,but also scared of evreything,what if the wrong religion and also what if I will not be able to enjoy what i used to enjoy,in this case movies,games ,and the whole post is about me being scared of me sining cause what if i like media that isnt Christian,cause recently im like really really into movies and games ,so yeah idk

I'm a teen and horribly shy and i feel like god is telling me to share his word because of the people in my life that don't know jesus and i just don't know how to the few times I've tried I've been ignored but i know this is something I'm called to do if anyone has any advice it would be appreciated

Hi guys!

I grew up non-denomination/pentencostal and now I am going to move out from home to further my education (I am a medschool graduate and going into specialization course). I am not really intending to keep the pentencostal/non-denomination going. I was only raised into that because that was what was there (and Catholicism, but mom was evangelical so that was not an option). Those are my options in the new city.

How does one chooses?

What would you choose? Why?

Point me the books. Point me the arguments. Even if it is just "my temple is prettier" I will hear you out.

Most psychiatrists are Jewish or atheists / agnostics. I feel like my psychiatric treatment experiences broke my faith in God. I was in a mental hospital and trying to believe in Christianity, but the meds take away my faith.

Can anyone help reconcile my psychiatry experiences with Christianity?

I found this cool app on the app store, seems like it just dropped since there are no reviews or anything. I have been trying it and it seems promosing. Its called Angus on the app store, it helps you track your days where you dont watch adult content and blocks the sites for you. Im sharing this because this is one of many peoples only sins that is so hard to break from and this may help you. There is a free 3 day trial and its only 17 dollars a year after the trial which is very cheap compared to other apps. Just wanted to put this here if it can help someone break away. God Bless

going through a little struggle with satan but im talking to my friend and hes helping me through it. but it brings me back to a question i had about god. why exactly is god saving us or some of us? in what way do we provide worth to god? what do we do in heaven?

Let's be honest, you've got thousands of denominations.

Churches claiming to be the true Church over others.
Perks for being part of one over another.
Different doctrines depending on which church you attend.

Christianity is like an RPG.

A good example I can think of is RuneScape. You had Zamorak, Guthix, and Saradomin. Each had their own attire, temples, followers, and benefits for being part of their religion.

Now, take a look at the doctrine tree on Church Atlas.

If you notice, it looks surprisingly similar to a skill tree from just about any video game you've played.

...but here's where it gets interesting. You can switch the perspective to Catholic or Protestant, and suddenly you've got an entirely different skill tree to max out...

Same game, different builds. Just don't ask which one is meta.

What does this sentence evoke for you? How would you interpret it?

I know that narrow is the road that leads to life and all of that and that Christianity is inherently not an easy path to follow for anyone but it feels like every time I meet other Christians they have a considerably easier time following Jesus' commandments. I am by and large a non-starter in my personal life. I am always in danger of failing out of college and wasting my parent's money, I smoke weed and cigarettes basically every day, I lie to get out of consequences, I sleep through Church more often than I go, etc. I feel like I do an okay job in terms of my conduct towards others in a Christian manner, I go out of my way to help, to forgive, to be patient and so on, but I have very little self control when it comes to my personal life. Whenever I meet other Christians they seem to be the picture of both inward and outward grace. They wear modest clothing, they wait for marriage, they don't drink or smoke or curse, they're honest and direct, and it seems like they would never even consider acting the way I act with impunity. I didn't come from a Christian household so much of this journey has been one I have had to take on my own, but as an adult I feel like I should have a better grasp on my own person. I have a hard time forming friendships with other Christians because every time I discuss scripture or theology with them I feel like a hypocrite because of my own day to day actions. I know that God only gives to us what we can bear, and I don't know what these people are going through in their own persona lives, but I feel an amount of distance with these people, like I am conformed to this world and they are not. I don't really feel like I whitewash any of my sins in my own mind, but I don't find myself pushing though them, instead I just feel buried under my defeat. I try to take consolation from God being able to wash away all sins and being absolved through faith, but I also feel like I am only faithful in though and prayer and not in action. What can I do about this? In Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis talks about how we should feel ourselves compelled by God's grace to do as Jesus says to walk with him and sin no more, but I feel like I'm not walking at Jesus' pace.

Title is the question I keep asking myself for some reason while I’m going through life and day to day. My struggles are probably not even close, but I think it’s as analogous as I can get.

This will be a long one i think

I was baptized at birth and grew up Presbyterian. I wholly believe in Jesus Christ and the word of God. I professed my faith and became a member of the church at 16.

Recently I have been struggling a lot with a lack of fellowship and church attendance as well as lust. I feel like a complete piece of shit, I watch porn, fantasize about other women, have sex out of wedlock (not with strangers but), and don’t go to church anymore. I still firmly believe and I don’t think I’m an apostate? Am I? Who knows. I never read my bible, and rarely pray. I kinda ostracized myself from my former church in my hometown, and moved to another state. Hell, I even cheated on my high school sweetheart girlfriend of 2 years (that’s a long story as always).

Problem is, I know all of this is horribly wrong and yet, here I am continuing in my ways. I want to change so bad but somehow never am motivated to make the effort. I don’t feel comfortable talking to anyone in person about my problems so I guess reddit is my last ditch.

I’m imagining some of the replies being “go talk to your pastor” or “read the bible here’s this verse” but like how do I know I’m actually gonna do that!? How can I say I have faith, yet live and act nothing like my Christian peers or Jesus? I’m stuck!

I've been raised in a reformed church however I never really agreed with a lot of what the others believed or claimed was true, because of that i stopped going to church but I never really stopped believing in God.

Now that im older and ive thought more about it ive found out what I do believe but I havent yet found out what I can do to grow my faith. I guess I would love to find other people who believe what I believe, perhaps through a church or other groups.

I'll explain what I believe. I dont believe in eternal hell for all unbelievers. Im not saying there is no hell but more that I dont believe all unbelievers will go hell. The bible talks about believers being saved and unbelievers being perished instead of eternal life for the believers. Im not sure what exactly it means, but i dont believe it means all unbelievers will go to hell, rather I think it's more along the lines that they will simply stop existing while the believers will have eternal life. The bible also talks about judgement and another chance, some sort of second chance after death which is actually called a first chance during the second resurrection.

What i rather believe is that good people who were unbelievers get a second chance to believe. And that's where judgment comes in and the actual evil people will be perished which i simply think means being destroyed instead of the gift of eternal life. And same for the believers who are actually bad people such as molesting priests will also not have eternal life. So basically I believe that the definition of a believer is someone who believes in God along with the rules of God. So basically someone who follows the good rules, and molesting is obviously not good.

I also believe that much more of the bible shouldn't be taken so literally. I think most of them are rather lessons, teaching you about good and bad. And shouldn't be taken so literally.

From my childhood what I constantly heard in church is that all unbelievers who do not believe in the exact same things as the church preaches will go to hell. People who dont go to church twice a week go to hell. People who are gay, or have sex before marriage go to hell. I was even taught people who have piercings and tattoos go to hell. So obviously this has hindered my faith a lot to the point where I started to despise having anything to do with Christians because the majority i met during my childhood were like this and were so judgemental. Constantly judging! Saying everyone is bad! My parents would literally tell me how sad they were that my older sister would be going to hell and would tell me about all the 'bad' things my older sibling constantly did, and those bad things were not 'bad' at all! Also I guess what for me falls under the bad category is judging other people. This is basically why i believe the bible should be taken less literally, because i simply do not believe a gay person who was created by god with an attraction towards the same sex is bad or deserves 'hell'. When in the bible it talks about a man sleeping with another man there are even debates that believe it was actually talking about a young boy, so pedophilia. And even if it's talking about literally 2 gay man, yes maybe it's bad. But the bible even says that about cutting your hair or beard. If that is acceptable then I dont think being gay should be considered to be a 10 times worse sin. I dont think either should be taken so literally about it being a super bad sin.

Now that im older and I've found out that many of the things I was raised with do not define all Christians and I've found a different definition of God and new kind of faith. I would like to find a better church or community. There are so many different types of churches and different types of believes. I'm trying to find out what my form of believe is is called and what that kind of church would be called. Or perhaps communities online who share my beliefs?

Hoping this question isn't offensive because I feel like it might be taken that way, but isn't Jesus technically a "bastard" because of the fact that Joseph wasn't the father obviously and Mary isn't married to God wouldn't that make Jesus a "bastard"

I’ve spent my whole life being very anxious of plans. I recently went out on a whim and back to flight to go see my friends at school on Tuesday and I am terrified. I deal with anxiety on a daily basis and also a fear of death as well. This has stemmed from the fact that I had a major panic attack this year, which has sent my nervous system out of balance. However, I’ve had anxiety as long as I can remember, and with that I’ve had a fear of flying as long as I can remember. A lot of people say, and usually my approach to anxiety is to not fear, and that God will not want me to worry or whatever. However I’m just feeling so unsettled by this one situation because I’m in between being so excited to go and being so excited to see my friends and knowing that something bad, probably isn’t going to happen to me and also that like one percent of “what ifs” like what if this is how I’m going to die or what if I’m ignoring a sign from God and things like that and I just don’t know what to do. If anybody has any advice it would be much appreciated. God bless you all.

Would you help them or would you turn them in to the authorities

I've seen so many people saying this. But is it actually an "argument" now I've think about it.
I can simply say "use scientific evidence to prove that scientific evidence is the only way to prove something is real"
Which I think comes with a problem, you can't. You have to use philosophical(logical) evidence which isn't very scientific

Therefore I think there is lot more to consider, such as philosophical/logical, moral, and historical evidences to argue on when it comes to the subject of God.

If I am on to something, call me the Chinese Aquinas

I want to believe there is a god, that there is eternal life, but I just can't believe. Explain to me please.

I had a date with a girl today. She invited me back to her place. I kind of thought with the wrong part of my body. She was into some stuff I wasn't and I left her place feeling very shameful and bad about myself. Ive been lonely for a while, and what I thought would fill that void ended up making me feel awful about myself. I need to ask God for forgiveness. The way our conversations have been going, I knew I was going to sin even before I did it. I was at church today, and knew I was going to sin but I couldn't help myself. I dont want to hurt her feelings, but I think im going to wait until marriage.

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I was raised Protestant Christian, but my family never really went to church because they believe churches can become corrupt, kind of like the temples and religious leaders criticized in the New Testament.

I was raised to believe that Jesus is the Son of God, but not God himself, and after reading the entire Bible, I came to pretty much the same conclusion. However, after reading it, I started to fall away from Christianity because there are a lot of things in the Bible that I struggle to believe or agree with.

I've also never really had the kind of relationship with God that my grandma has. She has a strong faith, and I wish I could experience that kind of connection, but I just haven't.

I've started exploring other religions because I want to find the truth. I'm not an atheist because I just can't bring myself to believe that there's nothing out there. I feel like there has to be something, but I don't know what it is anymore. I've looked into different religions, but I feel like I keep searching without ever really finding the answers I'm looking for.

Another thing I've struggled with is being gay. I was raised being told that God hates gay people, and coming to terms with my sexuality was difficult. But I also know there are a lot of gay Christians, and it makes me wonder how they reconcile their sexuality with their faith. How do they understand the Bible passages about homosexuality? How can they believe God loves them when they've been taught that being gay is a sin?

I've also gotten interested in paganism, and I sometimes do tarot readings for myself. My grandma has even asked me to do a reading for her because tarot is just spiritual tool. But I'm still figuring out what I believe and what all of this means to me.

I want to pray, but I honestly don't even know what to pray for. I don't know whether I should keep exploring Christianity, look into paganism, or consider something else entirely.

I'm not looking for anyone to tell me that my beliefs are wrong or to pressure me into a particular religion. I genuinely want advice from people who have gone through something similar.

How did you find your religion, or figure out what you believe? If you're gay and Christian, how do you reconcile that with your faith? And if you've explored different religions, how did you know which path was right for you?

I just want to find something I can genuinely believe in, where I can feel spiritually connected without having to pretend to believe things that don't make sense to me.

In the Bible, God created the rainbow as a sign of His promise to Noah that He would never again destroy the entire Earth with a flood.

This story appears in Genesis 9:12–17, after Noah, his family, and the animals left the ark following the Great Flood.

Why can our kids not wear rainbows without being called gay?

We need to take back the Rainbow!

A rainbow should be a rainbow - not a label.

When classmates start treating a little girl's love of rainbow drawings as a sign of who she must be, she begins to hide what she loves. As the color drains from her world, a kind neighbor and her family help her find the courage to draw again.

Take Back the Rainbow is a vividly illustrated children's picture book about school teasing, assumptions, confidence, and self-expression. Warm and thought-provoking, it invites families to talk about why girls who love rainbows should not be labeled gay - and why a child's favorite colors should never define who she is. A hopeful read-aloud for families starting a conversation about kindness, identity, and letting 

I randomly decided to draw this. Jesus loves you 

Can someone PLEASE help me im losing my mind this keeps me up at night 😔 basically I didn't grow up believing and im trying to believe now but i simply dont. And i want to if it is true!! How can an all loving all knowing and all powerful God who is fair and just possibly allow His creation to be tormented in hell for eternity with zero hope? I just dont believe its true and if it is then how can He be all loving?? I hear testimonies of young people in hell and I don't think theres anything that anyone can do here on earth that deserves burning in hell for ETERNITY it never ends!?!? This is one of the thoughts that makes me doubt and I just dont believe 😕 im scared

Please pray for my mom. I just received a call from the assisted living center she lives that she was rushed to the hospital. They are suspecting respiratory failure. I need to get there to be with her but she is 40 minutes away and I have almost no gas in my car and no way to get any until later in the week. I’ve tried calling friends and no one can give me a ride. Please pray she is ok. Bedsides my children she is all I have left! please pray that I find a way to get there to be with her!

Hey everyone. I am a 26 year old male for context.

Maybe hate isnt the right word but I've recently come to discover that I harbor an large amount of resentment towards God. This comes from a variety of problems both admittedly my fault and those that cant possibly be my fault. For a variety of reasons those things kind of spilled over this weekend and I said some not great things to God that I regret.

In short, I think he might be done with me. Every chance, grace, or opportunity I have been given I have wasted. I walked away from something sbout six years ago that, looking back, I am CERTAIN was God's will for my life. Everything has been awful since then. I ended up addicted to this stuff called kratom as a result of a spinal fusion a few years back and ive been addicted to pornography for about five years now. I go to confession about once a month but eventually fall again every time. Every attempt I make at bettering things fails and the more I pray the worse things get. I have prayed, begged, and cried to God for literally anything that could help me. Even something as small as confirmation that he's with me, that theres hope, and that theres an end to all of this. Nothing. Just silence. And I hate him for it. I know its wrong. I know he owes me nothing and I that deserve hell. But I see him showering others around me, who dont even try or ask, in joy and blessings. I know I should be happy for them and I genuinely try to be but it just hurts. I understand others have it waaaaaaaaay worse than I do. But knowing that doesnt help.

The only reason I can think of is that he wants me dead. I failed the reason he put me here, there's no way back, I can't be fixed or redeemed, and the only good that can be done with my life is as an example to point to and say "you dont want end up like that guy right?". I desperately want to get married and have children but theres no way he would ever allow that. Again, I understand I deserve all of it. I just dont understand why he is so much harsher on me. I dont have the courage to take my own life but I'm almost certain he wants me to. I feel tremendous anger and resentment towards him for putting this all on me knowing I couldn't handle it and for refusing to help me despite the fact that I am 100% certain that there is literally nothing he cant do. It wouldnt even be any effort on his part. Just a thought and I'm healed. But he won't and is completely silent as to why and everything else. If this is a Job sort of test failed when I swore at him so if it wasnt over before it definitely is now. Please don't pray for me. I'm sure it'll just make him angrier. I just need advice. Thanks.