I've tried to believe in Christianity but I can't...

[Michele]

Leah...we are all born with cardinal knowledge. All of creation screams of His miraculous wonders. As a young woman I too asked these same things....."If there is a God!".......I was shocked that 1) There was a God 2) He heard me 3) He revealed himself to me in such away that doubt could never exist. Pray (knock), Listen (that is sometimes the hardest thing to do). God will reveal Himself. Look up Mark Biltz, Look up Rabbi Cahn.....they are jews that are now Christians. God has revealed many exciting Truths of things that are about to happen. Listen to some of Doug Batchelor sermons. Bath yourself in the word and prayerfully seek HIM.
God Bless

 

[dh charles]

For about two years now I've been flirting with the idea of becoming a Christian. I don't mean actual flirting, it's a figure of speech. I've tried so hard to believe, but I just can't. I can't force myself to believe, no matter how hard I try.

Ephesians 2:8-9: "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not of ourselves; it is the gift of God."
I can't produce my own faith, it must be given from God. And I have no faith.

I have always believed in God, but that is the extent of my faith. I believe there is a God. I've tried to believe in the other stuff, I've prayed to God asking him to open my heart and let him in, but it hasn't worked.

I can't believe the Bible is inerrant. I can't do it. There is no proof outside the Bible that the Bible is 100% truth.

I can't believe in the trinity. It makes no sense to me. People say, "Oh us humans just can't understand the concept" but I feel like that's an excuse when you can't think of a good reason for me to believe in it.

I can't believe Jesus is God. It kind of ties in with not believing in the trinity. Jesus can't be God's son and God at the same time...

I can't believe that Jesus would have had to die for our sins to save us from hell. God is in charge here, so why can't he just let us in to heaven? He's supposed to be loving and forgiving. I get punishing your kids, but hell is an eternal punishment, no father punishes his child for eternity. So why would God need Jesus to die for our sins to let us in to heaven? How come dying on the cross saved us anyhow?

I can't believe that non-believers go to hell. I refuse to believe that God would send good people to hell for not worshiping him. I would rather go to hell than worship a God like that. God loves all his children! You don't send someone you love to hell!

I just need someone to explain all this without using the Bible or prove that the Bible is 100% correct, which I doubt is possible. I really need help and guidance.

I call it young and dumb. No offense but you have not had time yet to know what you don't know. In order to understand you must accept the Holy Spirit along with not leaning on your own thoughts. Take the leap of faith. It is the only answer.

SAVE ME???? from what?..a car wreck or a drowning,ha nice try!
We all face uncertain and confused temptations of life when they become millstones around our necks. Captive thoughts affect the decisions and choices we make. Consequences that live on long after an about-face. So, just what do we do and what do we think and feel? Where do we go to avert these unintended consequences that snare us into mind slavery? After all, we do want to do the right thing; figure it all out for ourselves.
*TEMPTATIONS*
Call to me softly from where you are
I am lost in the land of many rivers
Talk to me in your quiet voice
it leads me through this forbidden land
Speak to me from your heart. I need
each symbol and word to help me read
the map of my own damaged human heart
With each step, one at a time, in any direction
the land of many rivers calls to me unbidden
Parts of me stay behind as I start down the path
there to follow the well worn way that this
wicked land has made so easy for me
I listen intently for you to call me quietly from
the whispers that is hidden in the rustle of willows
and oak trees that are strewn along it's banks
Quick, show me the way back to you for the water
here is cold and deep and smiling at me!
(c) 1982 John Hynson
The Answer
Romans 7:14-20
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And If I do what I do not want to do I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do - this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.Sin is anything God would not approve of according to the Bible.
Jesus said come to me; all that are heavy laden, and the I will give you rest. He said be not afraid; *********************I have overcome the world.
If you always live even in the shadow of God; you will never be in the dark.

 

[Brighthouse]

I have read the posts many have written.I will speak to you Leah Schultz as a adult, which to me you are! Let us say that you would meet me one day,and another asked you to explain who I was,how could you do that? You couldn't! No more then I could you.UNLESS!!!! You took the time to spend time with me,to get to know me, and I you! Since Jesus placed his own words above his very name,( Psalm 138:2)you asking people to explain someone without first knowing of him? For to know Jesus is to know his own word! Faith in him comes from his own word sis!( Rom 10:17) Did a person at school become your friend over night? Of course not,you took your TIME to want to get to know that person, and they you!Just common sense,which is what you want.

How important another becomes to us sis depends greatly on the amount of TIME we wish to spend with that person,if we go by what others say about them,we could miss out on something very special, because we choose to believe others, rather then talking to the person our self! The reason?? ITS EASY!!! LOL I remember being 16!! LOL Life to me was about me! What I want! What I need!

If you were going to become my friend, you better bring something to the table!! For if you have nothing to offer,what reason would I wish to hang around with a loser? LOL I believe you came to this site,to find out two things. 1. Prove to me I need Jesus,and 2 What can I myself offer someone who has no need of anyone to start with.At least sis that was my mindset long ago!

The first question is far more easy then the second one was for me sis. It was strange to me in Vietnam just how many unbelievers yelled for God to help them when we got into a very tough battle! They cursed his name all the time,but when they really got into a tough fix, they reached out to him! Like so many people in the world do today.The mercy and kindness of God sis lies in the fact that you are still alive in the choice you so far have made,even as I was many years ago after the war.My mind was pretty much where yours is right now! Trust has never been a very strong quality I even possessed!! I never trusted anyone! For any reason!

A lesson your young life is finding out in the world as to the why that is true! Do not want to go on to long here. It is all about YOUR TIME!!!! Spend it wise sis!! Because one can never get back time lost in ones life! I encourage you to take your own time to spend with people who know Jesus and love him,even as he loves all of us.The second point. Even Almighty God had a need sis,do you know what that need was?? Sister LOVE has a need to become needed!! Hence why we are here to start with! Jesus wanted us to need him, as much as he needed us!!That is what LOVE DOES!!( 1 Cor 13:4-8) This is what I have become in him sis,for i know the need of so many like myself, yes even like God himself!

Your starting point in the race we all run sis!!( Eph 3:17-19) this is where I started,I was willing to take my own TIME to find out something, because i choose to care that much about what I myself needed as well!! Since i know you at least care somewhat, you choose to take your own TIME to ask! And they who seek sister will always find!!( Matt 7:7)

So now the ball is in your court,how much TIME are you willing to seek?? Only you can answer this sis,but my hope through the Jesus I both love and serve, is that he is waiting with open arms for you to open the door to him! All we as believers can do is get you to the door,so you can hear the knock upon it.( Rev 3:20-22) The wonderful people we have here are doing just that,but YOU are the only one who can open the door to him sis!! We cannot do that for you! I can tell you sis in all truth, i sure was very glad to finally open that door for myself!! I encourage you to do the very same!

For if not, you are missing out on the most special friend one could ever have in there own life,someone who shed his own blood for us,someone who when denied by his own disciples loved them enough to forgive them!!( Matt 26:56) While you still have time sis please wake from your sleep!!( Rom 13:11-14!!) If I can help you i shall,just do not think you have a lifetime to decide though,many of us here are waiting to go home!! LOL We will wait for you of course! But hey!! Get with it!! LOL Blessing always to you sis, and please remember this one verse which has helped so much to understand Jesus love for all of us!!( Psalms 27:13) For indeed sister I sure would have despaired had I not took the TIME to believe in my God's goodness everyday for my own life!! And also for your life!! Blessing sis!

 

[Ophel]

For about two years now I've been flirting with the idea of becoming a Christian. I don't mean actual flirting, it's a figure of speech. I've tried so hard to believe, but I just can't. I can't force myself to believe, no matter how hard I try.

Ephesians 2:8-9: "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not of ourselves; it is the gift of God."
I can't produce my own faith, it must be given from God. And I have no faith.

I have always believed in God, but that is the extent of my faith. I believe there is a God. I've tried to believe in the other stuff, I've prayed to God asking him to open my heart and let him in, but it hasn't worked.

I can't believe the Bible is inerrant. I can't do it. There is no proof outside the Bible that the Bible is 100% truth.

I can't believe in the trinity. It makes no sense to me. People say, "Oh us humans just can't understand the concept" but I feel like that's an excuse when you can't think of a good reason for me to believe in it.

I can't believe Jesus is God. It kind of ties in with not believing in the trinity. Jesus can't be God's son and God at the same time...

I can't believe that Jesus would have had to die for our sins to save us from hell. God is in charge here, so why can't he just let us in to heaven? He's supposed to be loving and forgiving. I get punishing your kids, but hell is an eternal punishment, no father punishes his child for eternity. So why would God need Jesus to die for our sins to let us in to heaven? How come dying on the cross saved us anyhow?

I can't believe that non-believers go to hell. I refuse to believe that God would send good people to hell for not worshiping him. I would rather go to hell than worship a God like that. God loves all his children! You don't send someone you love to hell!

I just need someone to explain all this without using the Bible or prove that the Bible is 100% correct, which I doubt is possible. I really need help and guidance.

Saying, "I can't believe" is the same as saying "I won't believe". It is a choice we all must make. When we choose to believe God and what He says, and to receive His free gift of grace---forgiveness and new life---we are exercising the very real faith He has given each of us.

Are you expecting to feel something? That's not necessary. When we ask the Lord Jesus Christ in, He comes in. Period. We then begin a life with Him in it, leading and teaching, little by little and also in great leaps...but we need to abide in Him or stay connected to Him, and we do that by regular prayer and the reading of His word, the bible.

 

[dh charles]

I have read the posts many have written.I will speak to you Leah Schultz as a adult, which to me you are! Let us say that you would meet me one day,and another asked you to explain who I was,how could you do that? You couldn't! No more then I could you.UNLESS!!!! You took the time to spend time with me,to get to know me, and I you! Since Jesus placed his own words above his very name,( Psalm 138:2)you asking people to explain someone without first knowing of him? For to know Jesus is to know his own word! Faith in him comes from his own word sis!( Rom 10:17) Did a person at school become your friend over night? Of course not,you took your TIME to want to get to know that person, and they you!Just common sense,which is what you want.

How important another becomes to us sis depends greatly on the amount of TIME we wish to spend with that person,if we go by what others say about them,we could miss out on something very special, because we choose to believe others, rather then talking to the person our self! The reason?? ITS EASY!!! LOL I remember being 16!! LOL Life to me was about me! What I want! What I need!

If you were going to become my friend, you better bring something to the table!! For if you have nothing to offer,what reason would I wish to hang around with a loser? LOL I believe you came to this site,to find out two things. 1. Prove to me I need Jesus,and 2 What can I myself offer someone who has no need of anyone to start with.At least sis that was my mindset long ago!

The first question is far more easy then the second one was for me sis. It was strange to me in Vietnam just how many unbelievers yelled for God to help them when we got into a very tough battle! They cursed his name all the time,but when they really got into a tough fix, they reached out to him! Like so many people in the world do today.The mercy and kindness of God sis lies in the fact that you are still alive in the choice you so far have made,even as I was many years ago after the war.My mind was pretty much where yours is right now! Trust has never been a very strong quality I even possessed!! I never trusted anyone! For any reason!

A lesson your young life is finding out in the world as to the why that is true! Do not want to go on to long here. It is all about YOUR TIME!!!! Spend it wise sis!! Because one can never get back time lost in ones life! I encourage you to take your own time to spend with people who know Jesus and love him,even as he loves all of us.The second point. Even Almighty God had a need sis,do you know what that need was?? Sister LOVE has a need to become needed!! Hence why we are here to start with! Jesus wanted us to need him, as much as he needed us!!That is what LOVE DOES!!( 1 Cor 13:4-8) This is what I have become in him sis,for i know the need of so many like myself, yes even like God himself!

Your starting point in the race we all run sis!!( Eph 3:17-19) this is where I started,I was willing to take my own TIME to find out something, because i choose to care that much about what I myself needed as well!! Since i know you at least care somewhat, you choose to take your own TIME to ask! And they who seek sister will always find!!( Matt 7:7)

So now the ball is in your court,how much TIME are you willing to seek?? Only you can answer this sis,but my hope through the Jesus I both love and serve, is that he is waiting with open arms for you to open the door to him! All we as believers can do is get you to the door,so you can hear the knock upon it.( Rev 3:20-22) The wonderful people we have here are doing just that,but YOU are the only one who can open the door to him sis!! We cannot do that for you! I can tell you sis in all truth, i sure was very glad to finally open that door for myself!! I encourage you to do the very same!

For if not, you are missing out on the most special friend one could ever have in there own life,someone who shed his own blood for us,someone who when denied by his own disciples loved them enough to forgive them!!( Matt 26:56) While you still have time sis please wake from your sleep!!( Rom 13:11-14!!) If I can help you i shall,just do not think you have a lifetime to decide though,many of us here are waiting to go home!! LOL We will wait for you of course! But hey!! Get with it!! LOL Blessing always to you sis, and please remember this one verse which has helped so much to understand Jesus love for all of us!!( Psalms 27:13) For indeed sister I sure would have despaired had I not took the TIME to believe in my God's goodness everyday for my own life!! And also for your life!! Blessing sis!

I just want to tell you that I more than LIKE what you said in your post. And sis, I would like to add that sooner or later your linear thinking (the more "normal" human understanding) will bring you to a place where you must take that l

SAVE ME???? from what?..a car wreck or a drowning,ha nice try!
We all face uncertain and confused temptations of life when they become millstones around our necks. Captive thoughts affect the decisions and choices we make. Consequences that live on long after an about-face. So, just what do we do and what do we think and feel? Where do we go to avert these unintended consequences that snare us into mind slavery? After all, we do want to do the right thing; figure it all out for ourselves.
*TEMPTATIONS*
Call to me softly from where you are
I am lost in the land of many rivers
Talk to me in your quiet voice
it leads me through this forbidden land
Speak to me from your heart. I need
each symbol and word to help me read
the map of my own damaged human heart
With each step, one at a time, in any direction
the land of many rivers calls to me unbidden
Parts of me stay behind as I start down the path
there to follow the well worn way that this
wicked land has made so easy for me
I listen intently for you to call me quietly from
the whispers that is hidden in the rustle of willows
and oak trees that are strewn along it's banks
Quick, show me the way back to you for the water
here is cold and deep and smiling at me!

The Answer
Romans 7:14-20
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And If I do what I do not want to do I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do - this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.Sin is anything God would not approve of according to the Bible.
Jesus said come to me; all that are heavy laden, and the I will give you rest. He said be not afraid; *********************I have overcome the world.
If you always live even in the shadow of God; you will never be in the dark.
fait is ques,

 

[dh charles]

I just want to tell you that I more than LIKE what you said in your post. And sis, I would like to add that sooner or later your linear thinking (the more "normal" human understanding) will bring you to a place where you must take that l

SAVE ME???? from what?..a car wreck or a drowning,ha nice try!
We all face uncertain and confused temptations of life when they become millstones around our necks. Captive thoughts affect the decisions and choices we make. Consequences that live on long after an about-face. So, just what do we do and what do we think and feel? Where do we go to avert these unintended consequences that snare us into mind slavery? After all, we do want to do the right thing; figure it all out for ourselves.
*TEMPTATIONS*
Call to me softly from where you are
I am lost in the land of many rivers
Talk to me in your quiet voice
it leads me through this forbidden land
Speak to me from your heart. I need
each symbol and word to help me read
the map of my own damaged human heart
With each step, one at a time, in any direction
the land of many rivers calls to me unbidden
Parts of me stay behind as I start down the path
there to follow the well worn way that this
wicked land has made so easy for me
I listen intently for you to call me quietly from
the whispers that is hidden in the rustle of willows
and oak trees that are strewn along it's banks
Quick, show me the way back to you for the water
here is cold and deep and smiling at me!

The Answer
Romans 7:14-20
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And If I do what I do not want to do I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do - this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.Sin is anything God would not approve of according to the Bible.
Jesus said come to me; all that are heavy laden, and the I will give you rest. He said be not afraid; *********************I have overcome the world.
If you always live even in the shadow of God; you will never be in the dark.
fait is ques,

What just happened I was writing and everything went wild. To finish saying what I wanted to say to sis is that sooner or later you must take a leap of faith for the sake of love. Fall in love with Jesus. Believe me He is the only one that can overcome the world and make sense of everything. Sis I love you in Christ. and we are here for YOU, .

Monitors, I am sorry if I messed up here. It could be my tremors again. Sometimes they are worse than other times.