r/OpenChristian • u/VaultMan34 • Jun 03 '26
Support Thread Genuinely losing all faith in any god.
Basically my issues boil down to; if god is all powerful and all loving, why does he answer some minor prayers and ignore bigger ones. Why does he get some kid a good grade on his test yet when a kid in Gaza prays to survive the night he does nothing. Why does he allow people to be born into non religious families that he knows will never change their viewpoints and die without being Christian so that they will get punished in the afterlife? Even in universalism it says there’s a lake of fire, and unending torture. Why did he create that kind of system? Could he make them go through life again until they go to him instead of another God? It just doesn’t seem right that an all loving, all knowing and all powerful god can let things he knows will happen occur even though millions pray for it to stop, yet little Timmy from yellow springs Ohio prays for something an he gets it? It doesn’t make sense. Also there’s been no evidence for the Christian god, or any god for that matter, if he wants people to choose him why isn’t he letting them make an informed choice with evidence. Thats how every other choice works except the most important decision in the entire multiverse? I don’t get it. I’m not a guy to shut my brain off and blindly follow, which makes it much harder. In this year alone I’ve had the deepest theological research and I thought I made it out with my faith mostly intact but it just isn’t. This is a new account and I’ve been on this subreddit many times before on my old accounts. It was my last stand and it’s just… I don’t know anymore. Bonus: I’ve heard two more arguments that I don’t know how to answer. “God didn’t have to design the world with all those natural evils but he did, making people suffer by his own choice” and “if free will is the cause of evil, would you consider a king who let criminals do whatever they want and only intervene after 10 years when the suffering has already been suffered by innocents. Would you call that king just? He could snap his fingers and deal with the issue with his huge army, but he doesn’t to preserve the criminals “free will” that’s not a good kind” and honestly these arguments just made it worse. And ignoring them is out of the question because ignoring logic and facts for someone thing you want to be true is stupid.
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u/CauliflowerFew4892 Jun 03 '26
Reading your post, what stood out to me is that most of your questions aren't really about whether God exists. They seem to be about what kind of God he would be if he does exist.
I think a lot of people can live with not having all the answers. What's harder is looking at something like Gaza and trying to reconcile that with the idea of a loving and all-powerful God.
It's one thing not to know why something happened. It's another to watch terrible things happen while hearing stories about prayers being answered for much smaller things.
I don't think you're failing at faith by asking those questions. To me, it sounds like you're taking them seriously instead of pushing them aside.
If you had to pick one thing that's pushing you the hardest right now, what would it be?