Anonymous OP 1w

Finding your worth or “purpose” isn’t about finding faith. It’s possible to be a good person and be a non believer. Start small and find ways to be kind and help someone for the sake of kindness. That kind of kindness will feed the need of wanting to find purpose. Eventually you’ll find something that speaks to you and the purpose you’re seeking will find you.

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Anonymous #3 1w

For some, it’s not so easy. Faith cannot be forced or pressured. Pushing someone to follow Jesus is how religious trauma happens. For some like myself, having faith shoved down my throat is why I walked away for quite some time. Blind faith isn’t easy for some and can take significant effort to get to any faith in general especially if there has been religion shoved at them without consent.

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Anonymous #3 1w

Sometime finding what feeds your soul is the first step towards faith

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Anonymous stormfever 1w

I’m sorry to hear how it can be shoved down your throat. And for what it is, I think all faith requires blind faith to a certain extent. And I think you are smart enough to see that too. Is there something about the Bible you can’t get behind per se? In response to the second thing you said about feeding your soul- how do you know what’s feeding your soul isn’t demonic or the devil? Basing it off feelings isn’t suffice

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Anonymous #2 1w

…this isn’t an argument? This is just what I believe lol

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Anonymous OP 1w

You gave an indirect argument against people who believe in a religion. Don’t act so innocent.

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Anonymous #3 1w

There are some things within the Bible that I wouldn’t say that I disagree with but I don’t understand completely. I’m about to start a 1 year Bible study plan to read all the way through so I have a better understanding of it within written context. Ask me again in a year and I’ll have a better idea. I wasn’t raised in faith other than being told I’d be damned to hell for not being a good child so it drove me away from god for a very very long time. It’s only been in the last ten —->

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Anonymous #3 1w

Years that I’ve found my way back. For now my option is very limited and I wouldn’t say I blindly support or disagree with it because I lack the education to make a claim in either direction. Ill, misinformed and uneducated opinions are useless. Facts of statement are what I live my life by.

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Anonymous #3 1w

Far as the serving part about feeding my soul… I started that journey without God or faith the after. I didn’t need to know god to know that stopping to help someone who slid into the ditch on icy roads was the right thing to do. When I was in San Diego about to leave on deployment I didn’t need faith to know the gallon bag of toiletries I donated weekly to panhandlers was a kindness they deserved. I also didn’t need to understand sin to know that my mom expecting me to raise my sister wasn’t ok

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Anonymous #3 1w

For me, feeding my soul was helping a stranger broke down on the road or helping a friend by lending my personal skills to overcome their struggle. Sometimes the lines between good and bad can become muddy but that’s where faith comes in. To have the faith to overcome the murky water, you have to have the tools to calm the water to separate the mud. Sometimes even then, it’s the water that’s drowning you and the mud offering a place for growth. It’s all in the perceptive.

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Anonymous #3 1w

I really truly appreciate the question. One of the things I’m learning about because I’m still not completely comfortable with attending church is fellowship beyond the sanctuary. You seem very insightful and your question was just what I needed this morning. Thank you!!!!

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Anonymous #2 1w

No two people are in the same place on their journey to find faith and religion. Being obscene and aggressive isntt going to help them. Just because someone doesnt believe as you do, doesnt mean theyre incapable of kindness. Nor does it mean that they will never find faith in their own time. Statements like this is EXACTLY what drives so many away from finding faith and god. It might be worth stepping back and asking yourself if youre helping or hurting this person find their way to faith.

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Anonymous stormfever 1w

Neither. Their original comment gives the impression that they choose not to follow a religion, and bashed people who do. So technically they are the aggressor. Additionally, please don’t place words in my mouth saying that atheist can’t be nice people. Never even said that. Plus, the OP was expressing their longing for believing in a God, then immediately said they “couldn’t” because of [insert common misconception]. So of course they are skeptic because they haven’t learned anything.

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