For the ppl who believed in God but dont anymore or whose pa

What made you quit believing or never believe even though your parents did?

Quoting Ari&J'sMommy:“ What made you quit believing or never believe even though your parents did?”

i had alot of bad in my life. horrible childhood and into my teens. i do believe that there is a higher power but not that iy's neccisraily(SP?) god. after having several miscarriages i gave up all hope. but now i have my husband and a baby boy on the way. my faith is being restored

My grandfather commited suicide, and our priest said that he as in Heaven.
By the Bible's words,he took a life that was never his, and commited the ultimate sin,taking away his right to Heaven.
Since then, I gave up on God.

I am sort of opposite. I just barely started believing in Him. My parents weren't religious people and we never talked about God or anything growing up. Just recently I felt like I needed someone to trust and confide in (and since that can't be my family) I chose Him. I understand a lot of people's reasoning for not though. I am not one of those people who are like "ohh you're going to hell for not believing in Him"

Quoting Ari&J'sMommy:“ What made you quit believing or never believe even though your parents did?”

I can't say i totally gave up but my faith is not as strong as it was before.... growing up and relizing the way the world is. Bad things that happen to good people. Babies dieing over stupid reasons. Children being abused and can not defend them selves abused so bad they DIE!! Mothers who deserve children losing them and mother who dont deserve them KILLING THEM!! I makes me second guess who he is! But i can't say i lost all faith! But i am almsot there!! Good things happen in my life that remind me that there might be such a thing! My mom on the verge of dieing literally on he death bed suddenly she is up and about and has been that way for 2 years when they didnt even give her 2 months!! OH well i will end here ......i can go on!  :

It's not that i don't believe in God per se, it's just idk exactly what idea OF God to believe. I know there is something greater than us out there, but idk what role he/she/it plays in our day to day lives. And I've never been horribly religious but what did it in for me was watching my Aunt suffer and die two months ago...she'd been sick for a while with COPD, and that got progressively worse...then she was diagnosed with stage 3 vaginal cancer outside her vagina which was so advanced it had wrapped itself around her organs etc. She wasn't strong enough to undergo much radiation therapy or the surgery then they found a mas on her lungs three days before she died. She was in and out of the hopsitals sick all the time. I'm SO mad that she's not going to be here to see my son born, she was like a second mother to me. I just don't understand how such a belevolent good God can let sucha good woman wither away to a shell of her former self and die like that. She was praising God till the very end, praying and had preachers in and out all the time. She never lost her faith. I lost mine for her. I never really prayed, but now I just CAN'T pray. I feel like a huge hypocrite or something. My hubs' great-grandad passed away a month ago (it's been a hard fewmonths for our family) and he was devistated but at least he went peacefully in his sleep. He was also a huge church man. Never lost his faith even though a lot of bad things happened to him and the family. (there is pics under my about me of both of them btw...). Anyway. I'm kind of blurry eyed now so I hope I asnwered your ? if not then ask me again and I'll come back in a little while sorry for typos.

This doesnt exactly apply to me but....When I was a kid I was raised Christian but I had a Muslim dad and a Wiccan mother, Jewish grandma and Christian grandpa. I stopped believing in God for a long timeand I was so confused as to what I should believe. Yeah I had a lot of shitty things happen in my life - child abuse, abandonment...Just to name some....But how I pulled through it and made myself a stronger person revived my faith. God isnt there to make your life perfect, you have choices. Sometimes bad things happen, but it's how you handle them and learn from them that matters. Bad things happen to make you stronger, if that makes sense... 

I believe in God at the moment, but lately I find myself really questioning my beliefs. I was raised a Christian......but I never really heard of a true miracle or witness one until I almost died.......I had pre-eclampsia really bad and they didnt think I was going to make it.....I woke up to a nurse telling my husband that I wasnt going to make it.....and I thought that maybe that God wanted me alive and I wasnt supposed to die. Now I look back and I wonder what was the whole point of making me sick or how could that be a "miracle" if my daughter died anyways. I look at it as I just didnt want to die and I fought through it. They say things happen for reasons and such.....but I just had another loss of a baby, I wasnt that far along, but if their is a God, how could he put someone through multiple losses? This year my grandpa (moms side) and grandma (dads side) died in the same week unexpectantly (sp) and thats JUST this year, I wont get into the other recent happenings. But it seems every single time my life starts to sort of be ok, something terrible happens. I was always taught that I would be punished for my sins in the after life....so why do I feel like I am being punished for things now, while I am still alive?

Ok so mine was a little vent, but still discuss away, I am really curious to everyones answer on this question.

Quoting Ari&J'sMommy:“ I believe in God at the moment, but lately I find myself really questioning my beliefs. I was raised ... [snip!] ... still alive? Ok so mine was a little vent, but still discuss away, I am really curious to everyones answer on this question.”

Oh my, that is so sad mama. How far along were you when you developed preclampsia?

Quoting (Kaila):“ Oh my, that is so sad mama. How far along were you when you developed preclampsia?”

I am not exacltly sure how far along I was when I got it bc my doctors ignored it even though I had all the symptoms, and at the time I didnt know what it was. I ended up having my placenta abrupt and was rushed to the hospital at 35 weeks before I knew I had it and it was too late then.

Quoting Ari&J'sMommy:“ I believe in God at the moment, but lately I find myself really questioning my beliefs. I was raised ... [snip!] ... still alive? Ok so mine was a little vent, but still discuss away, I am really curious to everyones answer on this question.”

Sorry about your loss  I dont know what the reasons were...I wish I could help you out. Even the prophets suffered great losses, everything is for a reason.

We recently had a very hard time for our family, My grandma lost her right leg 2 inches above her knee due to no circulation ( they tried splints 6 months ago) this tragedy has truly brought my close family closer, We have been having more family dinners, remodeling my grandparents house ( having fun doing so, dancing on the new wood floors in the downstairs living room) My grandma has the will to try to walk again, she wont get a prostetic until january when her surgery site properly heals, she can use her walker by kinda bouncing right now and tomorrow she comes home from the hospital. God has truly blessed us with her still being here and our famiyl getting even closer.

I believe in God, I just don't believe in religion. I don't go to church because it is ALL about religion religion religion. So most of our family and friends think I have lost my faith. But since stopping going to church, it has been more and more difficult to follow in his teachings. I still believe in Him though. But believing in Him and following Him are 2 different things. Even the Devil and his demons believe in God, but they don't follow Him, so they go to hell.

And all things have a reason. The story that comes to mind the most during hard times is the story of Job.

Quoting ~yelena~:“ And all things have a reason. The story that comes to mind the most during hard times is the story of Job.”

Yeah talk about having a hard time! But all the prophets suffered loss, bad things happen to good people too.