What is the most difficult wordly obstacle you face in remaining true to your faith?
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Honestly? God seems very distant most of the time. He doesn't speak to me to send any great signs or anything like that. I often feel like I'm left to fend for myself and figure out my problems on my own.\nHave you ever visited needhim.org?  I spoke with a woman there who opened my eyes to a few things. The one thing that stuck with me the most is that God is pleased with me for seeking Him. And even if I don't receive any audible answers, God will point me in the right direction and I'll always be where He wants me to be. And I'll say this again. How can I deny the existence of a God who allowed His son to be beaten and whipped to death just so I could go to Heaven?
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a) Challenge everything you can, its the only way we learn. If part of my faith is proven wrong, then so be it.
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If you consider EVERYTHING in the Bible to be God's Word, then, from that standpoint, yes, you must have faith that God's word is true to be saved.  \n\nIf you wish to argue with something you know to be true but are not willing to obey, agree with, or comply with, then you do not love God above all.\n\nMatthew 19:21-24 ... the young man was good, but could not give up everything to God.  He will not see the kingdom of God.
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One thing that it was tough for me to swallow as a Christian was that He does answer my prayers.  Every single one of them.  Sometimes I have to pray about something multiple times, and a lot of the time I have to adjust to the answer He gives me, but there is an answer.  I was unable to see that for a long time... well, until I truly believed, in fact.  It's funny that this is also one of the things that solidified my faith.\n\nBut many non-believers expect it to be sort of like Bill Cosby's Noah skit; that you'll be sitting around one day and you'll hear this big booming voice go, "Noah!", or that when you have a question, you can yell up there, "Hey God!  What's a cubit?" and get an immediate and clear answer that's obvious.  It just doesn't work that way.
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Consider it a blessing. it's easy to have faith and believe in something when no one disagrees with you or makes it uncomfortable to do so. now you can say you have faced adversity and STILL went to church and still upheld your belief. it's not the same as risking being fed to the lions, but hopefully you get the point, sometimes you have to stand up for your beliefs with more than words. have courage.
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Be honest.  Say, "I don't know."\n\nIts an answer I wish Christianity wouldn't be afraid of.
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It is hard to do and takes a lot of faith.\nI've only done it once and that was 20 years ago.
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hard?\n\nAmaki Owlaf i am humbled. good answer.
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faith is believing....the fact that you stick to........
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I cite Scripture when I realize I'm trying to say in way too complicated a way what God and his faithful expressed much more succinctly. And I quote it when nothing else will do but the words of Jesus Christ himself. That is, there are some things that I do not have any authority to say, and so I seek the words of the author of all life.
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This is one of the main reasons that Christianity is difficult for me.. One must take the Adam and Eve story as a literally true event for original sin to be a valid doctrine.. If Adam and Eve are metaphorical, then  the death of Jesus was to no avail.
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Did you ever lose your faith?
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:}\nWhat you cannot gain or hold on to by reason and spiritual right you do by force.
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It always changes depending on my situation in life.  Right now I keep going back to Joshua 1:9.\n\n"Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."
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I was brought up to fear it, and I don't think it's healthy to consider it an impossibility.\n\nBut God is for us, and Jesus is my advocate.  As long as I do the best I can to obey God and repent when I fall, I don't have to worry.\n\nI am actually commanded not to worry (Luke 12:22) but to think about these things:\n\nwhatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.  Philippians 4:8
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hey christian why is it so hard to let people believe what they want and just accept it.
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Truth and Love do walk hand in hand. The need would/could never be to large for God to fulfill. I would never want to learn to live a lie. And there is no way that my Faith is going to be shattered, with the misconception that God is not real. Thanks for the thought provoking questions. God bless