Blackrook
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One of my main problems with God is that he did not answer my prayers and many things have gone wrong for me.
Seeking answers, I read a book called "Where the hell is God?" written by a Jesuit priest.
He explained that he and his family had a faith crisis when his sister had an auto accident and became quadriplegic.
His answer to the question "Where the hell is God?" is that God, in his view, doesn't CAUSE these bad things to happen, so there appears to be no point in praying to God to fix the bad things that happen.
His example is the long drought in Australia, which people have been praying to end, but the drought just goes on and on.
I guess the problem with this priest's resolution is that it has weakened my faith to believe that God isn't the CAUSE of bad things that happen, because if he ISN'T, then there is something more powerful than God in the universe, another God, or an impersonal force that controls random chance.
And now I find myself thinking: What's the point of a God who is a passive bystander to the events in the universe? Why pray to him for anything?
Christ teaches we SHOULD PRAY and if we knock on the door, the door will open to us.
So really, this Jesuit priest is saying something that is inconsistent with the teachings of Christ.
But my experience with prayer is that some of my prayers have NOT been answered, and I've been praying for many years.
Atheists, please keep your stupid comments out of this thread, I'm seeking answers from fellow believers.
Seeking answers, I read a book called "Where the hell is God?" written by a Jesuit priest.
He explained that he and his family had a faith crisis when his sister had an auto accident and became quadriplegic.
His answer to the question "Where the hell is God?" is that God, in his view, doesn't CAUSE these bad things to happen, so there appears to be no point in praying to God to fix the bad things that happen.
His example is the long drought in Australia, which people have been praying to end, but the drought just goes on and on.
I guess the problem with this priest's resolution is that it has weakened my faith to believe that God isn't the CAUSE of bad things that happen, because if he ISN'T, then there is something more powerful than God in the universe, another God, or an impersonal force that controls random chance.
And now I find myself thinking: What's the point of a God who is a passive bystander to the events in the universe? Why pray to him for anything?
Christ teaches we SHOULD PRAY and if we knock on the door, the door will open to us.
So really, this Jesuit priest is saying something that is inconsistent with the teachings of Christ.
But my experience with prayer is that some of my prayers have NOT been answered, and I've been praying for many years.
Atheists, please keep your stupid comments out of this thread, I'm seeking answers from fellow believers.