/christian/ - Christian Discussion and Fellowship

>>710102

I feel you. There's some good stuff here that we could work through: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P9Q.HTM

That's pretty common. Even Saints dealt with their doubts from time to time. It's not a sin to doubt, you just need to live your life trusting in Gods plan. Go with the flow and give praise to God in both the good times and the bad times.

>Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.

This is normal, OP. Growing as a disciple of Christ is realizing that you constantly fight against Him and need to have the humility to just stop relying on what you think you have (but that in reality is God's) and to rely on Christ alone.

I wouldn't receive the Eucharist with a wavering faith if I were you, though. If you can't seriously say the creed and mean it, you probably shouldn't commune.

My faith can probably be better described as bipolar - I think about Christ daily, read the Bible almost daily, buy food for people in the street when I can, and go to Divine Liturgy whenever I can, yet I indulge daily in sex, drugs, and/or alcohol, and feel a lot of pride for myself and hate for others. It doesn't help that I am also literally bipolar, I guess. I'm obviously not in a comfortable situation though.

>>710128

>buying food for people in the street

"For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat."

2 Thessalonians 3:10

>>710131

There are many homeless who absolutely would work if anyone would employ them. You're displaying a distinctly unchristian attitude here if you're implying your first reaction to homeless people is that they're lazy bums who need to get a job. Work on cultivating a charitable disposition brother, for the measure by which you judge these people by those standards will you yourself be judged.

>>710131

You're telling me that giving charitably is in fact not a Christian thing to do?

Do you think every homeless people is just a lazy ass bum and that people giving them coins and sandwiches is their version of welfare?

I am not defending what I do as if it atoned for the sins I commit everyday, but let me also add that St Paul is talking here about the Christians of Thessalonika, not about charity works done toward those who are outside the Church.