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i've grown up going to a christian church and school and i pray everyday but i've never felt God's presence before...
i try to have faith and seek him but it's hard when i don't feel he's there and i feel like there's a hole in my life and i feel lonely but i just don't feel like i'm a christian even though i want to be.
how do i become a christian even though i've already been praying and going to church and have seeked him but don't feel anything?? (link)
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Basically TheGivingTree said what I wanted to say, I just want to add that you seem to have the wrong idea about "fnding" God in my opinion. I think God is just the realization that as humans we are a tiny part of something we will never understand and also it gives us something to work towards to be good people. To me it's something that feels very calm and almost magical to think how "nothing" we actually are. To everybody it's something different I guess.
I am amazed I am saying these things by the way, since about a year ago (when I hadn't thought about it much) I decided I would never be remotely religious in my life... Oh and I didn't realize what it is (actually I guess I still don't know anyhting, but if we are going to talk about it like that) by "searching" specifically for God, but by thinking about our existence as humans, and the universe, and the balances throughout nature... :)
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I'm Christian and I know lust is wrong. That's why i was super-relieved when I got more into studying the Bible and whatnot and I was distracted by my former thoughts...that was a while ago though. And now they're coming back, especially about the boy that I'm infatuated with...and i don't want to bring him into this, he's a Christian boy!! I don't wanna think of him like that...or think like that at all.
like I said, I know in the Bible it says several times lust and sexual immorality is sin...but i need help stopping the thoughts. I'm praying! if you have any advice, please offer it, if you don't please pray for me. (link)
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I'm not very religious like many of you guys are in the US, and I am not Catholic, but I am christian (orthodox). The way I perceive that is in a very general sense and I consider the details of what the Bible says unimportant (people wrote it). In other words, I think that the basic idea of Christianity is love and for us to be good people generally in our life and not as a reason for us to follow a set of rules that were arbitrarily made up by some group of people I don't even know. Lust, just like many other things is human nature, and God knows that. I guess what I am trying to say is that I see God and religion -any God- as an ideal for people, which we try to work towards, and it is what separates us from the rest of the animals.
Plus, I mean what is your plan, to not think of boys until when? Whenever that is it's going to be ok suddenly? And what about getting married? How are you going to get married and have kids (which are a gift from God) when you are afraid to think of a man sexually?
I hope I don't seem harsh and you understand what I am trying to say. It's hard for me to put it in words.
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