/christian/ - Christian Discussion and Fellowship

I was that way when I was younger. Faith must be hardened in the forge of the existence. At the beginning is soft but after some years it becomes unbreakable.

Sometimes I still have moments of doubt but they are not particulary frequent or intense, as they were in the past.

>>600485

I read Mere Christianity, but thanks for this great quote. I know that faith is a virtue and a grace, but the doubt, even if I live through it, is depressing.

>>600472

I just remember that actually living out a catholic life is the best way to live so there is nothing to lose and everything to gain.

what exactly do you doubt?

>>600472

I find it helps to think about the alternative in situations like this. If you reject Christianity, were does that lead you? What else can you believe in? Liberalism? I I think it's extremely obvious that liberal ideals will lead to societal collapse in the future, and once that happens a whole bunch of people will come crawling back to Christ. Communism and fascism have already shown themselves to be failures, so the only logical conclusion is to reject these ideologies too.

You could try going into Gnosticism or paganism, but again where does that lead you? The communities surrounding these religions are garbage, gnosticism is the basis of all kinds of evil, secretive, subversive ideologies, and paganism is full of edgy /pol/ack soyboys.

Every other movement is complete garbage. By process of elimination, the only conclusion I can draw is that Christ is the only way to lead a virtuous life. In this way, I cannot abandon him if I have doubts, because I have bigger doubts about every other way.

You're under attack from the spirit of antichrist - you must pray when this happens.

>>600485

>I'd recommand reading "Mere christianity" by C.S Lewis

Thank you so much for posting this. Polite sage for off-topic, but anyways you've helped me a lot.

Jesus. I'm seeing so much pro-Christian stuff from this "C.S. Lewis" guy. I thought he was just some kind of children's book author but I guess I confused him with someone else.

>>600472

The stars could fall from the sky, all trace of civilization could be erased. I could go blind deaf and mute, I could die. And yet I would still have the word of God. I will never lose that

>>600520

>/pol/ack soyboys.

Actual soyboy detected, even if it's just on a mental level.

>>600756

>he wrote the Chronicles of Narnia which is basically an apology for christianity in children's book form.

It's been a long time since I've read or watched Narnia, can you give some examples?

>>600520

People like you are why I doubt Christianity

>>600770

Aslan is Jesus. He is betrayed by one of his apostles/generals (Judas/Edmund), is killed and then ressurects.

His Father is the Emperor-Beyond-The-Sea (God The Father)

Tash and I think the White Witch are the Devil.

>>600827

You're right, I missed a step. In order to weed out all the other religions, you need to look at the the initial spread of that religion. You'll find Christianity is the only one that involved a man publicly demonstrating miracles. All the others are merely based on a personal revelation of that affected one man.

>>600827

>>600711

If you think I'm wrong, you're free to say why.

you'll snap out of it as soon as you're not a teen anymore.

>>606272

Hope so

Came across this series from Gary Habermas on Christian doubt you might find useful OP. I haven't watched it myself yet though (if you can't seen the other parts from the vid related you can find them in the playlists of the host channel) and thought I'd share here.

>>606806

Wow that's great, thanks!

i believe in God and that God is good more than any religion or dogma by a prophet or sage, my doubts are usually religious not theological, at the end of the day it doesn't really matter to me how old the earth is or if so-and-so actually did X and Y historically, such things are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things

>>606816

Most welcome m8