Hey all, going through the worst struggle with my faith.
Essentially, have lost all belief in the Bible. I was already predisposed to view most of Old Testament as a metaphor, but as we've gone through the Bible as a church, I just can't believe in it anymore as being at all influenced by God. Evil behavior on God's part, just bizarre stories that have no real metaphor attached to them, wild discrepancies in the NT (different genealogies, different stories about the virgin birth and yet that is completely absent from the other gospels and ALL of the epistles, sermon on the mount vs on the plain, etc). Some of it can be apologized away, I know, but not this much. At some point it just becomes more likely that it is all written by man.
I don't necessarily disbelieve in Jesus. The theology of the Christian church makes so much sense to me in terms of the world and how it works, in a way that no other religion or atheism does.
And like many of you, I feel like I've seen the Spirit work in my life in miraculous ways that are WAY too transformative and wild to be a mere coincidence.
However, at this point in my faith, I can't give the Bible an ounce of authority, which of course makes me wonder if all of the things I do believe are just in my head.
Has anybody else been here before?
Submitted January 07, 2016 at 03:50PM by Unknown
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