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Hi, I'm 19/f
my whole life, I have been to maybe 5 different churches, and for some reason, I just feel as if church isn't for me. I find it very boring.
I believe in God to the fullest, but sometimes I have my questions, and of course, everyone's answers are going to be different depending on their beliefs.
But within the 5 churches I have been too, I have got many different answers regarding the following question:
DO YOU HAVE TO BE BAPTISED TO GO TO HEAVEN?
I have heard, Yes, you do; and I have heard no you don't, as long as you believe you have a right into God's Kingdom.
Personally, I believe that IF God is as mightly and loving as others make him out to be, than shouldn't he know who believes in him, and who doesn't? Why does baptism give you the pass to Heaven? Why can't believing just be enough??
I have never been baptised, but I have been saved. I pray to God; not just when I want something, but to let him know that I appreciate the things he has given me, and letting me live another day.
Everyone tells me to 'read the bible' but personally, I don't want too. How did God write the bible when he didn't have anything to use? Idk where it came from, who really wrote it, or even if it is true.
Is it wrong for me to have all these questions and these doubts? Does that make me a non believer?
My father told me to talk to a priest, but honestly, I won't get a solid answer, and I feel as if I'll be wasting my time. No one knows the REAL truth about any of it.
Sometimes I question if there is a Heaven or a Hell. How do we really know if they are real; has anyone died and came back and said, 'Man, Heaven is amazing; or Hell is hot as fire!"
I feel so guilty questioning this- but I'm just curious.
SOrry for the length. (link)
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There's nothing wrong with having questions at all. We wonder about things all the time. I used to go to church, I had similar questions too. Now I no longer affiliate with any religion anymore. I still believe in a God, but it's a MUCH different God than the religious God I was basically raised to believe in. As for Heaven and Hell, I don't believe in them. I do believe we still exist in a different form after death though. We cannot really know weather this Heaven and Hell are real. I'm an Agnostic theist, I have a weird God philosophy, but I always argue with my Atheist friends and even some religious ones. The reason I'm not Atheist or religious is because there is no point in claiming something and devoting lots of time to them when they can never be proven (For the Atheist and the Theist), no side will reach a solid answer. So instead of saying a God is impossible, or saying that there definitely is a God, I consider a God as a possibility, this leads me to try and come up with my own God ideas, and those are the ones that I believe in. As for the after death thing, I believe we exist in an abstract form after death. The reason behind this is simple. If energy and matter cannot be destroyed, and that is what we are made of, AND it allows this consciousness, then we are technically eternal. What makes up our body, our being, has existed long before the Earth even formed. And any scientist could agree with that.
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