... before I go to sleep, I have these doubts creep into my head & I wonder if there is even a God & I think im just lying to myself about Him. I feel so bad and I pray to God to forgive me. Please help me
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You have this because your church never taught you the doctrines. You will have to learn them on your own. Read a chapter of Proverbs every day. Proverbs has 31 chapters so you can keep your place by just looking at a calendar. There is no religion or nothing in Proverbs and you don't have to believe anything. Just read every day. When you are comfortable with that, then read the bible from Romans to 2 Thessalonians over and over until you start to remember what it says. That is the part that applies to Christians.
What is faith? The definition is “Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld.” (Heb. 11:1)
True faith is not credulity, that is, a readiness to believe something without sound evidence or just because a person wants it to be so. Genuine faith requires basic or fundamental knowledge, acquaintance with evidence, as well as heartfelt appreciation of what that evidence indicates. Thus, although it is impossible to have real faith without accurate knowledge, the Bible says that it is “with the heart” that one exercises faith.—Rom. 10:10.
Many have been disillusioned by the hypocrisy of the churches of Christendom, which claim to teach God’s Word but fail to live in harmony with what it says. Others were adherents to a non-Christian religion, but they saw bad fruitage from its practices or found that their beliefs did not really help them to cope with the problems of life. Lacking accurate knowledge of the true God, such persons draw away from everything related to religion.
So how can a person find faith?
Rom. 10:17: “Faith follows the thing heard.” A person must first find out what the Bible says, and he will strengthen his conviction if he examines it carefully so as to be convinced of its reliability.
Rom. 10:10: “With the heart one exercises faith.” -By meditating on godly things to build up appreciation for them, a person impresses them on his figurative heart.
Faith is strengthened when a person acts on God’s promises and then sees the evidence of God’s blessing on what he has done.—See Psalm 106:9-12.
The problem is with your mind. It is your mind that is a rascal, a monkey that is trying to make you believe there is no God. We have to kill the mind before the mind kills us. We have to transcend the mind, destroy the mind. We have to become conscious of God's Divine presence in the sun, the moon, the stars, the birds, the animals, the flowers. You can feel God's presence in the beating of your heart, you can feel God in the 576 mega pixel camera that is your eye. God is in everything beautiful, everywhere in this planet. Unfortunately, because of the mind, it makes us go round in circles and makes us lose the experience of God which is all around us. We have to be in God's Divine presence and transcend the mind.
Ok thank you very much!