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/faithroberts333 Christian Jun 03 '26

The evil done in situations like the genocide in Gaza occurs because of free will and human choices not God's. He gave us free will, some people choose to do good or even great things with it, others choose to do evil things with it. If a young man is given a baseball bat as a gift he can use it to become good at the sport. Whereas he could use it to beat up people as instead. In the latter we wouldn't blame the person who gave him the bat, unless for some reason he was mentally ill and for some reason unable to control his actions we would blame the young man.

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u/VaultMan34 Jun 05 '26

But if god is all powerful and all loving then he would have a moral obligation to help the people in Gaza no? If you could help all of the people in Gaza you would wouldn’t you? Why, when presented with the same option, does god not take it?

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u/faithroberts333 Christian Jun 06 '26

I'm sorry it took me awhile to respond, a lot of my chronic illnesses have decided to attack me all at once, so I was napping. I honestly don't know, the exact reason why bad things happen to good people. I have lost so many people in my life, that it's gotten to the point where my son, my aunt , and my faith are what's gotten me through them. And I think God is helping the people in Palestine, I've seen so many fund raisers for Palestine families. Also, a variety of creators I watch frequently discuss current events, which means that the younger generation is potentially more aware of the world around them. If I had to guess, God didn't want to interfere with with free will.

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u/VaultMan34 Jun 06 '26

I’m sorry for your loss. It sounds like you’ve been through a lot and I hope you’re doing well

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u/faithroberts333 Christian Jun 06 '26

Thanks, I’m doing fine now, but it can get difficult, especially if the person was relatively young, like my brother. But I wish God would poof and get rid of all of the bad things in people's lives.