What is your biggest struggle in your walk with God?

[Apollo Celestio]

Uncertainty is okay as long as you don't move into another box. What use is removing shackles of one mode of thought if you just put another one on?

 

[scraparcs]

Uncertainty is okay as long as you don't move into another box. What use is removing shackles of one mode of thought if you just put another one on?

I'm not so good with uncertainty as a constant state of being. Are you?

 

[Apollo Celestio]

I have an understanding, and doubts are a part of it.. but doubts and uncertainty do not reign.

 

[Thunder Peel]

I often find myself doubting whether God really cares or has a plan for me. I guess I feel like His promises are true for everyone but me.

 

[white dove]

This bull[jive] that tells me that I have no time. It's been said a billion times before, if something or someone is important enough, you make time.

 

[Sean94]

Sometimes I wonder how God can let needless suffering happen.

 

[waves16]

My biggest struggle is how I view homosexuality. I know that the bible says it's a sin. I don't deny that, and I try to accept it. But my two best friends in the ENTIRE world are gay, and they are so unconditionally loving and kind, I just can't understand why they should be punished for something they had no choice over. I try to remember the phrase "dislike the sin, not the sinner", but it's hard for me to accept that something people have no control over could be so wrong.

 

[Gilbert 61]

My biggest struggle is how I view homosexuality. I know that the bible says it's a sin. I don't deny that, and I try to accept it. But my two best friends in the ENTIRE world are gay, and they are so unconditionally loving and kind, I just can't understand why they should be punished for something they had no choice over. I try to remember the phrase "dislike the sin, not the sinner", but it's hard for me to accept that something people have no control over could be so wrong.

I am going to try and not step on any toes. God hates sin, so much that we all deserve hell because we all sin. Sin is a choice, not something we don't have a choice over. We choose to sin. Homosexuality is just like any other sin, a choice. God will not create us to be gay, people choose to be gay. Go through the bible and find one scripture that supports homosexuality. I sin, I choose to sin. Difference is, I know my sin is wrong and I don't say that I don't have a choice in the matter. I have made my decisions, and I have to live with the descisions I have made. None of us are perfect. And correct me if I am wrong, but isn't saying I don't have a choice, saying that God made them that way? And if that's true, would God make someone that has no choice but to sin? That's not his nature.

I'm sorry if I offended you in anyway. These are my views and what I get when I read about homosexuality in the bible.

 

[waves16]

Thank you for your post. I realize that it's a sensitive topic, and it's hard to discuss without stepping on a few toes. It's one of the things I struggle with.
When it comes down to it, yes, I realize that it's a sin, because the bible says so. I can't argue against that in any way. I grew up believing that science held the answers to everything. This was a quote taken right out of my psychology course this semester: "Homosexuality is more likely to be based on biological factors like differing brain centers, genetics, parental hormone exposure, than environmental factors." Before, I believed that science was brilliant, and based all my beliefs on science. Then I became a Christian, so I struggled with a lot of scientific views that conflicted with the bible. Science can be wrong, but God is always right. I'm still biased, because of my two best friends. Like I said, it's something I struggle with.

 

[Nomarga]

Thank you for your post. I realize that it's a sensitive topic, and it's hard to discuss without stepping on a few toes. It's one of the things I struggle with.
When it comes down to it, yes, I realize that it's a sin, because the bible says so. I can't argue against that in any way. I grew up believing that science held the answers to everything. This was a quote taken right out of my psychology course this semester: "Homosexuality is more likely to be based on biological factors like differing brain centers, genetics, parental hormone exposure, than environmental factors." Before, I believed that science was brilliant, and based all my beliefs on science. Then I became a Christian, so I struggled with a lot of scientific views that conflicted with the bible. Science can be wrong, but God is always right. I'm still biased, because of my two best friends. Like I said, it's something I struggle with.

 

[waves16]

Yeah, I realize my post probably sounds a little silly.
To put it simply, my belief in science and my belief in God often conflict. I wouldn't consider myself an expert on either. I'm not stupid, I know that science has an immense impact on the world, and explains and creates brilliant things that are far beyond my understanding. I'm just saying that now I have to rethink a lot of things I believed in before.

 

[r035198x]

..I grew up believing that science held the answers to everything. ...

As you learn more science you will realize that those who believe that science holds answers for everything don't actually know a lot of science.

 

[waves16]

"Before, I believed that science was brilliant, and based all my beliefs on science. Then I became a Christian"

You bolded that statement, and looking back I realize it's a little ambiguous. I didn't just completely disregard everything scientific once I became a Christian. Not even close. I just started to realize that the two conflicted on certain points.

 

[Nomarga]

As you learn more science you will realize that those who believe that science holds answers for everything don't actually know a lot of science.

This is very true. Anyone who expects definitive answers about everything will never get them from science, because it never can definitively say anything... only religion will give the absolute certainty some seek. To be a scientist (or science enthusiast) you have to be comfortable with living in a largely uncertain world.

To stay somewhat on-topic, the biggest struggle I had with my faith was... faith. On the surface of it, my situation seems almost an inverse of yours kaatieed. Throughout my adolescence I'd assumed my faith was based on unshakable truths, which upon deeper examination, unfortunately proved to be based on faith in humans and unfalsifiable claims.

 

[r035198x]

..To be a scientist (or science enthusiast) you have to be comfortable with living in a largely uncertain world...

More bluntly you need to have as much faith as religious people have.

 

[Nomarga]

More bluntly you need to have as much faith as religious people have.

Faith in...?

 

[Netty]

I got the idea for this thread while talking to my friend.

We all have our own person struggles in our walk, somethings that are easy for some people are extremely hard for another. So I figured why not start a thread where we can help each other not only through our current struggles but as well as our long term struggles.

From my first post, some of you may already know my hardest struggle is being single. (hense why it is this is in the single forum) I find no enjoyment out of it at all. It's not about the physical aspect of being in a relationship. I love having a closer connection with someone, making plans, just watching a movie with a special someone. I miss having someone in my life like that. I don't like making plans for myself, I feel very selfish when I do, I don't like spending the extra money that I have on myself, again I feel selfish. I don't like reading blogs about when people say all they have is Christ; but they talk about how their husband/wife was there for them. My biggest desire in life is to have a loving and Godly marriage and bring two or three more faithful followers of God into the world with my children.
If anyone has any advise to help me improve my walk through this struggle, I will be very thankful.

God Bless.

Hey Gilbert61 -

I totally know what you mean. This is the age when we all look around and see our friends engaged or married or having kids and think... 'what about me?!' This is something I struggled with for - especially when my two younger friends got married... ~sigh~ But you know what? I followed some advice I was given - about praying for that right person from God. And yeah, at the beginning my prayers were "please God, bring us together - let us meet, etc", but now - as I've realised that life is so much bigger than I even imagined, my holding onto this has loosened and it's not as important as Christ to me. My prayers for my future husband go more like this "God, I pray that HE has a fantastic day, that You show HIM more of You." Simple things like this - that once I meet HIM - I'll still pray for HIM about each day. It's a lot less of a burden.
So yeah, there is still the ache, and there's tears (yes - even for men!) but God has the exact right time for everything. And you don't want to jump the gun because God knows you completely and has the perfect person for you! In the meantime - learn more about what God wants to teach you. I heard somewhere that we're always so focussed on finding Mr./Miss Right and aren't concentrating on being Mr./Miss Right! Think about what things you reckon a Godly woman you'd love to marry deserves in a husband, and ask God to teach you while you wait.
That's what I reckon anyway. Be encouraged mate! You're certainly not alone! ~hug~

 

[waves16]

To stay somewhat on-topic, the biggest struggle I had with my faith was... faith. On the surface of it, my situation seems almost an inverse of yours kaatieed. Throughout my adolescence I'd assumed my faith was based on unshakable truths, which upon deeper examination, unfortunately proved to be based on faith in humans and unfalsifiable claims.

Yes, it does seem similiar. Science was my "unshakable truth", but of course science can't explain everything, and it isn't without it's faults.

 

[Netty]

As a side note - my biggest struggle is probably my pride... Growing up in a Christian household, knowing everyone in my church - or rather being known by everyone in my church, parents in a leadership kind of role in church - leaves you with a certain amount of 'nose-stuck-in-the-air' syndrome... Thankfully, God is humbling me (a painful process!), and He still loves me, even when I'm so stuck in my own little world.

 

[r035198x]

Faith in...?

Whatever theories you attribute to existence.
A simple example is you can't prove evolution without making assumptions about things that you have not observed. Even if you could prove it, it also relies on other theories that assume activities that also have not been observed (the origin of the species that evolved).
Now faith is believing in what you have not seen and what you cannot scientifically prove. Science is full of those things.