Not sure if I believe in God anymore

[JP685]

I'm 17 and just started questioning my faith as a Christian. I've grown up believing in God, but now I'm not really sure. So many bad things happen in this world, I don't understand why God would let it happen. He's supposed to be caring and nice and everything then he let's people die in the most brutal ways. I'm not so sure there is a Heaven or Hell either. I know a lot of really nice athiests, I don't think they deserve an eternity in Hell. I don't know.

I'm just not sure. It's all really confusing, plus there's other religions too and they all say if you don't believe you're going to Hell, so which one are we supposed to believe in?

 

[Mr Sinclair]

Can i ask u if u ever felt the holy spirit? I mean the holy spirit is not something u get when u visit church.
When U receive hes holy spirit, its like drugs. Thats how the first time it felt. When u carry his spirit, u know god is for real.
Just ask as much as u can(maybe with fasting?) for the holy spirit and as much as
Do this in compleet honestly.
If u never fasted. I understand

This what u do, to feel it:
Dont touch things u LIKE in this world for the coming weeks. Do this in secret.
Stay away from music, tv, etc.. all entertainment. Its going to be boring.
Only read the bible and pray for the holy spirit,
and only read the bible and PRAY.
Try to talk as minimal as possible to people, to get that love feeling from them.
Your focus when u do this, is to SEEK JESUS. and to repent
Thats why we are here, thats why we are born.

Trust me its complety worth it.
I am a converted christian myself, I tasted everthing "nice" in this world. Drugs,girls,parties etc..
Withouth the holy spirit I certainley wouldnt have come this far.
Soon enough u feel even the Living water!! and jesus love pouring over u.
When someon comes to u saying, god aint real. U will say I dont care, I have his spirit in me.

And no your NOT imaginen when u do this, Believe me.
I walked weeks with the holy spirit very strong(my first weeks with christ)
And after that, I thought I imagined it.(because of the lies of the world that are very strong)
Ofcourse his love and everthing went away. But I started to pray again, very less.
But even than Jesus poured his love over me.
I belong to him, we all do. and u too.
Dont feel ashamed when praying and seeking him
The propaganda of this world is very strong, and maybe soon enough u will understand why.

Like I say myself, I once walked at the darkside.the world call it the funside hehe.
Its hard to sacrife your dreams, I had too.
Remember the verse in the bible they say about the hidden treasure in the field.
This is it, well atleast I think it is. specialy the living water, man its so nice
This is what satan is trying to steal from u, this truasure. With the lies of the world, soon enough u will understand what this exactly mean

As far is goes with nice athiest, yea they are not your enemies.
Ask for the holy spirit everytime u read the bible, u will not be blinded and u will understand why they go to hell.
DO they deserve it.. NO!! hell is terrible I agree.
Thats the reason why the REAL preachers are so ambitious trying to save souls through jesus.
Because I do feel very sorry for the people who dont ackownlegde jesus as there saviour.

I WILL PRAY FOR U, message me if u have questions. ill be there for you

Also dont look greatley upon me, a good friend and brother told me this. Years of work and dedication too the lord. I just spread the wonderfull message, a message maybe to wonderfull.
Many people made the bible natural to this world, but all the "supernatural" stuff is very reall.
Godbless u alex, my friend who told me this

One last thing, I want to discribe u the love of jesus. WHICH IS AMAZING.
U know the when u are love with a girl, and u have this love feeling your stomach?
It usually go with nasty feelings, like do she loves me back.
But when christ poures his love over u.
U have this love feeling in your entire body(your soul)
And this is pure love, unconditional love.
Its a love so familair, it feels like home. Because we belong to him, our soul already knew this before we are born.
ITS SO WORTH IT MY FRIEND

 

[Jeremiah1]

JP685,
You are asking questions we all struggle with from time to time. Do you by chance have netflix? If so, I would encourage you to watch Lee Strobel's "The Case for Christ" and "The Case for Faith". They are both available via instant play online. I read the books a few years ago and recently when going through some struggles and finding myself beginning to doubt I watched them, and it really helped.

 

[heron]

You'll know what to believe when death hits.

When a person swats a mosquito, it's a fairly emotionless act -- they know it's going to die in a day anyway. When a pet hamster dies you grieve, but know you could only expect it to live 2 or 3 years.

Keep moving up the animal kingdom, and you get to man -- once a lifespan of 35 years, now 70-90. All lives are valuable, and we connect emotionally with all sorts of beings. But a killer whale eats a penguin, a seal eats a fish, a lion eats and antelope... lots of gruesome things happen in "normal" ecocycles.

But man has a spirit that is allowed to live longer than the life of the body. Many people who go through horrendous pain, report that their spirit left their body and came back.

Jesus offers people eternal life with Him, with the Father. That is a gift. Without that gift, we would go the way of nature...we eat, we die.

 

[chiah]

Lack of faith, questioning, the dark night. As a friend of mine once wrote 'everything is a gift, suffering the holiest of all.'

My best friend is Buddhist and I also have atheist friends, Don't judge, that is not up to us. And I would keep questioning but remember it is usually when you feel furthest from God that he is close.

Keep the faith, I would read the gospel, listen to the words of Christ and never give up. He didn't.

In Christ

Chiah

 

[hlaltimus]

I can't say that I've never felt this way before, because I have. Still, I hung onto my basic conviction that there is a God somewhere, somehow, and that his being an infinite, eternal and almighty Creator, qualified him to determine what was "Right" and "Wrong", though I thought differently at times just like you. The Holy Bible does term him a "Potter" and us his "Clay", so his being our true Creator, (and not so much our parents,) and us his dependant and minute creatures, gives him every right to determine what is "right" for us, what is "wrong", and to sometimes reprove or even punish disobedience against him as well.

Parents frequently punish disobedience in their children, and why not? The parents are the physical, instrumental source of the children, and are every bit as superior to the children in authority, knowledge and power, as a potter is to the lump of clay, or an artist is to his creation upon a canvas. God made us all, (because he directly made the prototype of Adam and so consequently Adam's race,) so we should not be surprised when God both demands and disciplines us as his dependant children of creation, who were designed chiefly to "bear His image". Just as an earthly Father or Mother naturally wishes for their children to reflect something virtuous that is in them, he does likewise. However, here is where the Creator parent of God, differs much from an earthly parent:

When we offended our natural parents, we offended beings of finite moral assessment, but God is a being of infinite moral assessment, so an act of disobedience against a natural parent, and one against our divine Creator, are two very different things indeed. Since God's valuation in favoring righteousness or in disfavoring unrighteousness is infinite, we haven't the foggiest idea of just how immeasurably offended he is when we sin. How much does God hate sin? Enough to predetermine the death of his priceless and perfect Son? Yes...that much. Because God's hatred against wicked rebellion in his universe is an infinite hatred, and because He, (as Creator,) has every right to both demand and to prosecute, this prosecution potentially speaking may be something much more severe than we, (who only finitely grasp moral offense,) would deem fair and suitable punishment.

God has created a Hell, yes, but this awful place of punishment was originally designed for "the devil and his angels", the Lord having no such original intention for man to suffer such a horrible fate. That is why he, (as a divine sort of Parent,) has elected to have mercy upon his erring children, just as an earthly parent will sometimes intervene in their discipline and forgive the child that they love, rather than to punish them as fully as they truly deserve. God still does allow suffering for sin in this life, yes, but what if that which we view as being highly severe suffering upon earth, is really only a relatively mild reproof, compared with what full, eternal and unmitigated punishment would be somewhere else? Why not then pardon those currently in hell? He would, (I am sure,) if he could find a solitary example amongst any of hell's inhabitants who sincerely and honestly were willing to repent of their perpetual wickedness while there, but none will ever be found.

God definitely does punish for sin in both this life and the next, of that I am sure, but I am equally sure that God takes far, far more preference in pardoning and restoring his erring children, than he does in punishing them. We don't know how much God hates sin, but if we were as perfect as He is perfect, we would no doubt concur with him to the smallest point in matters which we now find hard to accept or reconcile to wisdom. Rather than to ponder the just rectitude of an omniscient, almighty and omnipresent Being, you may wish to ask yourself another question:

What kind of a heaven could such a limitless being construct for my delight? What kind of a happiness could he devise for me there, who has unlimited knowledge, power and resources to spin whole galaxies of purity and pleasure before me, and all to endlessly explore? What kind of an ally and friend would such an incomprehensible Being make upon earth, when all of my environment seems at times to be united together for my humiliation and destruction? What enemy could possibly overthrow me, if He were my closest Protector? This Being makes a much better friend than he does an enemy, and he has even delighted himself with the very thought of our relationship with him in filial and loving friendship forever. Seek Him as such, for it is his first choice for us.

 

[wayfaring man]

One day some time ago, while musing over some of the apparently "bad stuff" that happens on the contemporary earth and thinking, why doesn't The Lord intervene and prevent those kind of things from happening ? About a second later, a still small voice spoke within, saying, "why aren't you doing something about the things you know aren't right"?

And the charge Jesus gave to His disciples was brought to remembrance -

...Go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. <-----> Matthew 10:7+8

And then came the conviction that - if more of us "believers", would be doing "our part", God would not appear to be so absent, uncaring, or even non-existent.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. <-----> John 14:12

Problem is we have a much easier time convincing ourselves we already believe/have believed even though our life has remained basically powerless to effect any miraculous influence upon the world around us...and then because we see ourselves as having already done our part ( though clearly we have not ! ), we begin to question God, as though He is the one who is letting us down.

May The Lord have Mercy !

wm

 

[Peripatetic]

At your age, questioning is normal. It's an important transition from a belief that comes more from family tradition to one that is your own.

God allows bad things to happen because he gave humans free will. I believe that God created us this way because He wanted a people that are capable of love. A robot or puppet cannot love, but as people... we can love Him and love each other (the two most important commandments). The negative byproducts of free will are evil and the all bad circumstances that result from it.

I should also mention that a lot of good comes out of trials and struggles that seem terrible at the time. When I look back over my life, the darkest days helped to shape who I am and made me a better person.

God's plan for the world is so complex that we couldn't possibly understand it. I believe that someday we won't be confined to our Earthly human brains, and it will all make sense. Until then, we have faith. Faith is another essential part of free will. If God allowed Himself to be proven and truly revealed, everyone would believe.

So love and faith are two key ingredients to our salvation. If we accept God's gift of grace and the invitation of our adoption into His loving family, we still have to live in the world, but we aren't "of" it.

 

[Johnnz]

As Christians we are part of God's story. That story has not yet reached its finale and consequently there are more than a few things we just don't know yet. The problem of suffering has vexed Christians over many centuries. We just don't have a full understanding of why God allows it to continue so drastically.

But we have a promise of a new heaven and a new earth which gives us what scripture calls a 'living hope'.

I agree with the earlier posts - your are maturing and need some reasonable grounds for your faith. Your current questions and doubts can go one of two ways, either into disbelief of some sort, or it will become a stimulus for further enquiry, study and a far bigger, robust, satisfying faith. I needed to go down that path four decades ago. It has led to a life of ongoing discovery and expansion of my understanding of the wonders and depths of my faith.

John
NZ

 

[Saucy]

Would everything be easier if there wasn't a God? Or would life be still be just as hurtful? So what I'm assuming here is that you blame God for all the pain in life. Really, it's not His fault. God has done everything He can to make it right for us and He tries to tell us the pain that sin causes, but we keep sinning! If one person kills another, you blame God, but it's really the fault of the person who decided to sin. God can't break a person's free will. If someone wants to freely murder, rape, steal etc..and causes pain, all God can do is try to make it better.

But we all owe a death. We will all die in one form or another and that's also because of sin. Nothing says we will all live perfect lives to a grand old age. It's just the world we live in and that's world we live in regardless of if God exists or not. The good news is that God DOES exist and that should give us all a certain amount of hope!

 

[soul sister]

There is no harm questioning your purpose in life, i hope you find what's right for you.

 

[critical3]

I'm 17 and just started questioning my faith as a Christian. I've grown up believing in God, but now I'm not really sure. So many bad things happen in this world, I don't understand why God would let it happen. He's supposed to be caring and nice and everything then he let's people die in the most brutal ways. I'm not so sure there is a Heaven or Hell either. I know a lot of really nice athiests, I don't think they deserve an eternity in Hell. I don't know.

I'm just not sure. It's all really confusing, plus there's other religions too and they all say if you don't believe you're going to Hell, so which one are we supposed to believe in?

many have a head knowledge of God and satan has produced a many counterfeits.. the question is.. has the Lord transformed you, has there been a complete change within you and im not talking about one trying to live for God, but God has put that desire in them.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (King James Version)


17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.


2 Corinthians 13:5-6 (King James Version)


5Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
6But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.


a reprobate is a counterfeit..


check this out, what the Lord laid on my heart, also answered his calling on my life..also to those who have grown up in the whole 'church world'


Youth Sunday @ Maple Grove Nov. 14, 2010 - Veevr

 

[SoulfilledCanvas]

I understand you are having problems and have growing questions about life, and the lord. Please stay with him. Alot of people die every day but who says he lets them happen? Every day thousands of people die from perfectly preventable causes, yet they are with god. The best advice I can offer you is simply to pray, to meditate and read the bible I know you want answers yet why should God answer to you? If you search you will find, you can turn against him and curse his name every day yet he will offer that undying love and forgiveness, If you died tomorrow and stood before god, what good things would he have to say? what bad things? Before you question him and the world around you, question yourself. What do YOU want to change in the world? How should the world be?
It took me two weeks in isolation to find the lord, because I went down my own path and yet it still led me to him. Before you embark on the journey you seek, first consider the outcome. Please feel free to message me about anything, im always here.

 

[heron]

God has created a Hell, yes, but this awful place of punishment was originally designed for "the devil and his angels", the Lord having no such original intention for man to suffer such a horrible fate.

Do a Bible search for "second death." Some people believe that the spirit dies like the body does, if it is not going to Heaven. The spirit death would be painful like a body death, but then it's over.

Search for '"second death"' - NAS - Study Desk

Sin is usually an offense against someone else. Whether it's God, neighbors, parents, authorities, strangers, or even yourself... it robs someone else of God's ideal for their lives.

If you have a friend who keeps borrowing your things without returning them, you would tend to allow it for a while, and then start setting limits. If the friend resorted to taking without asking, eventually it would be wise to stop spending time with them.

Sin has similarities to that -- it distances us from God and other people. It distances us from God's best for us.

 

[critical3]

Do a Bible search for "second death." Some people believe that the spirit dies like the body does, if it is not going to Heaven. The spirit death would be painful like a body death, but then it's over.

Search for '"second death"' - NAS - Study Desk

Sin is usually an offense against someone else. Whether it's God, neighbors, parents, authorities, strangers, or even yourself... it robs someone else of God's ideal for their lives.

If you have a friend who keeps borrowing your things without returning them, you would tend to allow it for a while, and then start setting limits. If the friend resorted to taking without asking, eventually it would be wise to stop spending time with them.

Sin has similarities to that -- it distances us from God and other people. It distances us from God's best for us.

yea exactly what satan would have them to believe..sorry but they are deceived. hell is for eternity

 

[TigerKanga]

People had to pollute the view of the Heavens before most of them were able to doubt the existance of God. Walking around square boxes all day and sleeping in them at night can test anyone's faith.

 

[wayfaring man]

Do a Bible search for "second death." Some people believe that the spirit dies like the body does, if it is not going to Heaven. The spirit death would be painful like a body death, but then it's over.

Search for '"second death"' - NAS - Study Desk

Sin is usually an offense against someone else. Whether it's God, neighbors, parents, authorities, strangers, or even yourself... it robs someone else of God's ideal for their lives.

If you have a friend who keeps borrowing your things without returning them, you would tend to allow it for a while, and then start setting limits. If the friend resorted to taking without asking, eventually it would be wise to stop spending time with them.

Sin has similarities to that -- it distances us from God and other people. It distances us from God's best for us.

Agree that sin, (not God) is the problem.

Yet, believe Scripture tells us that the "second death", is the death of the soul, not the spirit (don't believe the spirit can die, because it is a measure of God/God's Spirit/Spirit of Life.)

...Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. <-----> Matthew 10:28

soul - G5590
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psuche&#772;
psoo-khay'
From G5594; breath, that is, (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from G4151, which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from G2222, which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew [H5315], [H7307] and [H2416]: - heart (+ -ily), life, mind, soul, + us, + you.

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. <-----> John 6:63

spirit - G4151
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pneuma
pnyoo'-mah
From G4154; a current of air, that is, breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively a spirit, that is, (human) the rational soul, (by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or (superhuman) an angel, daemon, or (divine) God, Christ&#8217;s spirit, the Holy spirit: - ghost, life, spirit (-ual, -ually), mind. Compare G5590.

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? <-----> Ecclesiastes 3:20+21

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. <-----> Ecclesiastes 12:7

Again compare -

Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: <-----> Isaiah 42:5

breath -

H5397
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nesha&#770;ma&#770;h
nesh-aw-maw'
From H5395; a puff, that is, wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect or (concretely) an animal: - blast, (that) breath (-eth), inspiration, soul, spirit.

spirit -

H7307
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ru&#770;ach
roo'-akh
From H7306; wind; by resemblance breath, that is, a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions): - air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit ([-ual]), tempest, X vain, ([whirl-]) wind (-y).

...There is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. <-----> Job 32:8

spirit -

H7307
&#1512;&#1493;&#1468;&#1495;
ru&#770;ach
roo'-akh
From H7306; wind; by resemblance breath, that is, a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions): - air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit ([-ual]), tempest, X vain, ([whirl-]) wind (-y).

Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. <-----> Psalm 97:10

souls -

H5315
&#1504;&#1508;&#1513;&#1473;
nephesh
neh'-fesh
From H5314; properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental): - any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead (-ly), desire, X [dis-] contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart (-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortality, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.

Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. <-----> Psalm 49:12

beasts -

H929
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behe&#770;ma&#770;h
be-hay-maw'
From an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collectively): - beast, cattle.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. <-----> Psalm 49:15

soul -

H5315
&#1504;&#1508;&#1513;&#1473;
nephesh
neh'-fesh
From H5314; properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental): - any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead (-ly), desire, X [dis-] contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart (-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortality, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.

Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. <-----> Psalm 49:20

beasts -

H929
&#1489;&#1468;&#1492;&#1502;&#1492;
behe&#770;ma&#770;h
be-hay-maw'
From an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collectively): - beast, cattle.

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; <-----> 2nd Peter 2:12

beasts -

G2226
&#950;&#969;&#834;&#959;&#957;
zo&#772;on
dzo'-on
Neuter of a derivative of G2198; a live thing, that is, an animal: - beast.

... The very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. <-----> 1st Thessalonians 5:23

spirit - G4151
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pneuma
pnyoo'-mah
From G4154; a current of air, that is, breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively a spirit, that is, (human) the rational soul, (by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or (superhuman) an angel, daemon, or (divine) God, Christ&#8217;s spirit, the Holy spirit: - ghost, life, spirit (-ual, -ually), mind. Compare G5590.

soul - G5590
&#968;&#965;&#967;&#951;&#769;
psuche&#772;
psoo-khay'
From G5594; breath, that is, (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from G4151, which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from G2222, which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew [H5315], [H7307] and [H2416]: - heart (+ -ily), life, mind, soul, + us, + you.

body -

G4983
&#963;&#969;&#834;&#956;&#945;
so&#772;ma
so'-mah
From G4982; the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively: - bodily, body, slave.

G4982 -

G4982
&#963;&#969;&#769;&#950;&#969;
so&#772;zo&#772;
sode'-zo
From a primary word &#963;&#969;&#834;&#962; so&#772;s&#772; (contraction for the obsolete &#963;&#945;&#769;&#959;&#962; saos, &#8220;safe&#8221; to save, that is, deliver or protect (literally or figuratively): - heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (make) whole.

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. <-----> Ephesians 5:30-32

body -

G4983
&#963;&#969;&#834;&#956;&#945;
so&#772;ma
so'-mah
From G4982; the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively: - bodily, body, slave.

G4982 -

G4982
&#963;&#969;&#769;&#950;&#969;
so&#772;zo&#772;
sode'-zo
From a primary word &#963;&#969;&#834;&#962; so&#772;s&#772; (contraction for the obsolete &#963;&#945;&#769;&#959;&#962; saos, &#8220;safe&#8221; to save, that is, deliver or protect (literally or figuratively): - heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (make) whole.

... The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. <-----> Genesis 2:7

...Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. <-----> Isaiah 57:15+16

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. <-----> 2nd Peter 3:9

God's Spirit has enlivened the soul and animated the body.

And it is His Will that we be refined , purified, preserved, and immortalized.

Im*mor"tal*ize -

1. To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.

May God's Will be done in and through Christ. Amen.

wm

 

[jeremiah1five]

If you are not sure if you believe in God anymore is a sign that you never did.
Read and study the God of the Bible. In the Word you will find God described and His revelation to man as to who He is and what He does with His creation will answer your questions.
Do not lean on your own understanding.
And if you are not and never been saved, then your own understanding is all you got.