Why don't you believe in God?

[Killer]

I know. You are doing exactly what every person does when I ask about religion. I have been there for my brother and I know that he has to want to want it. The point is not really about my brother, it's about faith. I hjave faith that he will "want to" get off drugs. How long should I keep this faith if in 16 years my faith has done nothing obviously. I believe there is some type of God. I have faith in that. How long do I have to wait before I am struck by him? Before I feel as strongly about it as some people do? Before I don't just feel like the Bible is a good novel written many years ago?

your placing your faith wrongly.... the faith shouldn't be i want my brother off of drugs.. it should be i'm gonna be a God loving/fearing christian and have faith that my God can do the impossible. it's not just faith. you have to do your part in worshiping Him.

[ISAtlanta300]

Exactly right.

Often "faith" is overlooked. If you turned and look the other way, (Your brother is still ALIVE and has not OD'd for example) You could find faith and God in the simplest of things.

That is what keeps a lot of people from believing. Faith is not asking for favors or just assuming that things automatically happen. I can have faith in winning the lottery all day long. Does not mean that I will win it this saturday.

Faith is not about "wants" and "needs". Faith is about keeping you "strong" in the face of adversity.

"Faith" help you cope with your brother for 16 years, whereas most people would have "given up". "Faith" has helped you help others. "Faith" has kept you sane during those nights that you cried yourself to sleep.

"God" is everywhere. You just have to WANT to see him. There is none so more blind that he who does not WANT to see

[Tracy]

Exactly right.

Often "faith" is overlooked. If you turned and look the other way, (Your brother is still ALIVE and has not OD'd for example) You could find faith and God in the simplest of things.

That is what keeps a lot of people from believing. Faith is not asking for favors or just assuming that things automatically happen. I can have faith in winning the lottery all day long. Does not mean that I will win it this saturday.

Faith is not about "wants" and "needs". Faith is about keeping you "strong" in the face of adversity.

"Faith" help you cope with your brother for 16 years, whereas most people would have "given up". "Faith" has helped you help others. "Faith" has kept you sane during those nights that you cried yourself to sleep.

"God" is everywhere. You just have to WANT to see him. There is none so more blind that he who does not WANT to see

I didn't ask God to help my brother. I just had my own faith that he would quit. I don't ask God for favors. It makes me feel bad.

I BELIEVED he would get off. Afterall, that what faith is..a belief. Faith doesn't always have to be God. When I said what I said about faith in the first post, I meant that faith alone isn't usually enough for anything to happen.

[SNapper]

Religion is a joke. People believe because they can't handle their own lives and they can't be alone. They're scared of life and death.

[Jaimecbr900]

Religion is a joke. People believe because they can't handle their own lives and they can't be alone. They're scared of life and death.

Actually you're partly right. Truly religious people figureatively and sometimes literally give their lives over to God to manage where they go and what they do. So in a small way, they don't "handle" their lives alone.

As for being alone, I don't follow that. It's obvious you don't believe in God and as such HOW can someone BE with God (i.e. not be "alone") IF, according to you, he doesn't exist?????