Have you ever said, "I'm sorry God but I don't love you anymore?"?

"and because you know my motivations, thoughts, feelings, you know why I have to feel this way and you will understand" You are after all...a little like me. and I added


You have not spoken to any of us in a long time...You are very lucky I believe in you at all!


I did this when my mom died.


...of course it passes.





I don't think God wants blind obediance is my point.


Wants you to think and know, rejoice and go willingly with Him. With a glad heart.


Seems to me...God is big on Glad Hearts.





Atheist Q


If one prays and there is no God ..where is the harm in praying? (fundamentalist nuts not withstanding)


If one DOES NOT pray and there IS a God/Creator(as most of earth believe) where is the harm in NOT PRAYING?


Say YOU had kids and they didnt thank you for the house %26amp; yard even acknowledge you, trust you, believe in you or even DO WHAT YOU SAID (love one another)


...How angry sorry %26amp; how sad would you feel?


I just can't take the chance.


And I am not hurting anyone.

Have you ever said, "I'm sorry God but I don't love you anymore?"?
Very well said! No, I haven't, but I almost did. I remember the pain from when my sister died, and then my father a year later, but I never turned away from God. It's hard, and very sad when those things happen to us, and I think many of us forget to thank him for the good things in life, but are ready to put the blame on him for the bad ones. I'm so glad those feelings in your life have passed, and commend you for being brave. I know it's silly, but this question brought me to tears (missing my dad and my sister).
Reply:There is God.The only one God.there is no two or three..why He want create human, world.for happy life and no lesson?He knows best. Allah the Great.we'll see that.I don't care your biased because of different religions.
Reply:life and its hardship gets to us all, more so at a time of loss, its grief we are feeling and we turn our grief towards god, why this,, why that,, why why,,





but he never ever turns from us and at the weakest times of our lives he is there with all his love and his arms around us
Reply:No, I haven't. I am not in the habit of speaking to imaginary beings.





If one prays and there is no invisible pink unicorn that rules the universe from my garage, what is the harm in praying? I guess none, except for the huge waste of time it represents. But I guess that it is your time to waste. Go to it, if it is only your time that you are wasting. However, if it involves wasting my time as well, you do not have my permission for that.
Reply:i don't feel like spending the time making myself look stupid talking to what i feel is an imaginary person every day...





why don't you pray to a flying spaghetti monster or an invisible pink unicorn or your imaginary friend when you were 3 or santa? basically, those are the same as god for an atheist.





and your example doesn't make sense. a kid can SEE their parents, talk to them, touch them, love them, and get the same response from the parent
Reply:If there is a God/Creator then it gave me my mind and my need to understand and learn, essentially creating me to be a non-believer in this universe. There is no way that I can expand my knowledge and analyze the current state of evidence and come up with the conclusion that any god/creator exists.





I'd assume that it the God/Creator was the loving one described by Christians, then it would understand this. On the other hand, if it is the one described by the Bible, I'm not sure that I'd want to spend time with it in any case.





Edit:


I'll agree with Woody. This is essentially another way of stating Pascal's wager - feel free to wikki it, as it has a good description of the wager.





Basically, you could replace "god" with Zeus, Odin, or any number of the other thousands of gods that man has created over the last 35,000 years (the first religion we know about is 35,000 years old). Speaking about age, I really wonder about any god that would wait for over 32,000 years to start talking to its creation and and then hold off for another 2 to 3 thousand years before providing a plan of salvation or revealing its truth.





Edit:


As far as hurting others, if you support keeping same sex marriages illegal, you are hurting many people or if you subjectively reject known science you reinforce other's "belief" that ignorance is ok.
Reply:I told God I didn't love him after he cheated on me. How dare he!





But seriously, I got really angry and agnostic after my dog died, 'cause he was supposed to go home that day and something just shut down in him, and I blamed everything for it.
Reply:Noooooo. But I have been angry at him.





But I have to trust him..
Reply:you wouldn't be talking or praying to God if you didn't love him anymore.
Reply:Depends on who you're blindly obeying. If you're blindly obeying God, you need to do that, but you better be careful about understanding just what it is you're obeying. If you're doing anything that is expressly forbidden by the Ten Commandments (such as killing others, or bearing false witness against them), then it is not God you're obeying, but someone else.





On the other hand: If you're blindly obeying the Church, then you probably ARE NOT obeying God. The Church - especially a MEGA-church - has some of the most unBiblical practices I have ever seen.





Live and let live. God wants people who will worship Him in spirit (do what is right - whether that is against some "law" or not; killing others for ANY reason is wrong, whether via the death penalty or abortion or suicide bombing) AND in truth (do what is commanded in the Ten Commandments - including REMEMBERING, which is not the same as religiously KEEPING - the Sabbath).





John 4:23





Prayer is for YOU, not for God. As for how I'd feel if my children did what you describe? I'd do probably exactly what God did when His children did that. Maybe yell at and punish, but finally say "Look, here's how it is. You do this, and you will live. You don't do this this, and you will die. It's your choice, but IT IS FINISHED. It's now up to you."





P.S. I'm not talking about physical life and death, of course.





P.P.S. I've never said what you ask in your question, but there was a time when I began to question it myself.





P.P.P.S to Pika: I've got news for you, girl: Allah IS the same God that all religions (except for devil worshippers) worship.
Reply:"I just can't take that chance"





Let's have a big hand for Pascal's Wager everyone!
Reply:To pray that prayer, I had to be a Moron. One does not love or stop loving just like that. Love with reference to God is to be interpreted as knowledge. To love God is to know God. The love of God is the love of knowledge. If I lose love for the achievement of knowledge, it's because I lost my mind and became a Moron. That's why I can't ever say that I have stopped to love God.
Reply:Sometimes I really get pissed off when something that I attribute to him happen to me. I don't remember saying I don't love you any more, but I surely say: If you don't revert this and make things right, then our relationship will be in jeopardy. To be honest, it always works for me. Pray to God in the hard way some times - He even listens to those who are angry with Him.
Reply:At one time or another in my life, I've told God, "I don' t love you, but I want to love you."





Then I've gone back and said, "I don't want to love you, but I want to want to love you."





Etc.





(He did work things in my understanding of Him and in my heart to bring me to a place of falling in love with Him again after that!)





I think it is very important to be honest with God and ourselves at all times. He is our source - whatever He asks of us, He wants to be the strength behind it. Acknowledging our weaknesses allows His strength to fill us where we were formerly weak - but pretending to be strong will only leave us without help in our weakness.





God always wants us to approach Him, just as we are. This means we need to be honest about what we really are. As the writer of Hebrews says, "Let us boldly approach the throne of grace, in order to find mercy and grace in time of need."





Bless you! :)
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