How often do people lose their faith in God after a traumatic experience?
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Re: How often do people lose their faith in God after a traumatic experience?
It’s a very hard situation to be in.
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It all depends on how you see it. Most of the people that lose their faith after a tragedy believe that because they believe everything will always go great. As soon as life happens they lose their faith. If you look in Matthew, Jesus gives a parable about a sower, it speaks of the seed that fell on the stoney side and immediately sprang up with no deep roots. This means that people give up their faith just as quickly as it sprang up in their hearts. You cannot serve God when everything goes well and the moment something bad happens you push him aside. That is not how it works that is exactly the time that you have to stay faithful. When you except the good of something you have to take the bad with it. People often do not remember that and that is why they often lose their faith in God after a traumatic experience.
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I don't know how often devastations make Christians lose their faith. However, a story of one believing that come what may God is all, is always inspiring and invokes admiration. Humans tend to give up on an investment that doesn't seem to generate profit. Such is with faith. Seeing someone suffering an ordeal far worse than yours and still trust in God challenges one to keep looking up to God's grace a while longer. That makes Tripod's faith meaningful.Missing Person wrote: ↑02 Sep 2022, 15:30 I've seen a lot of discussion about how inspiring Tripodo's faith in God was. I've also seen many stories of Christians holding onto their faith after losing a loved one. In fact, I've seen so many of these stories of Christians holding onto their faith after a traumatic experience that I've come to the conclusion that the majority of Christians hold onto their no matter how much pain and suffering they experience, and that suffering is not the principle reason why most Christians lose their faith in God.
If my hypothesis is correct and the majority of Christians still have faith in God after losing their loved ones or going through some traumatic experience, then what exactly is so inspiring about Ron Tripodo's experience? Why were so many OBC readers impressed with Tripodo's faith? As an atheist, I find it difficult to understand some readers admiration for Tripodi's faith.
If the majority of Christians lost their faith in God after a traumatic experience then I would understand how inspiring Tripodo's faith would seem. But this is not the case. I've seen trailers for Christian movies talk about Christians becoming atheists after losing a loved one. For example, in the movie Let There Be Light, Dr. Sol Harkens lost his son to cancer and then became an atheist. The movie is about how Harkens regains his faith. If Harken's experience is a common one, then that would mean Tripodo's faith was a very impressive feat, if not that would mean that, at least in my eyes, his faith was a not meaningful factor in the heartbreaking ordeal he had to endure.
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The thing about God is that he does not give explanations. However, He says that He has a good plan for us. We tend to look for miracles in our hardships and forget the many signs in our lives, like waking up every day. We trust in what we see, and that is not faith. Your husband, for instance, trusted his father's prognosis. But what if the doctors were wrong and death became your father-in-law's escape from a devastating future? Being steadfast in faith even when a miracle is not guaranteed (like Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednego) is faith.Kelsey Roy wrote: ↑04 Sep 2022, 18:46 I think that perhaps the reason you’ve seen many stories about people maintaining faith after a loss is uncommon, and when it’s experience, it’s documented. Speaking from personal experience: my husband was raised Catholic. He lost his dad while in college to cancer, a quick passing after a hopeful diagnosis. My husband felt betrayed. How could a loving, merciful God take his dad from him? My husband lost his faith. Now, my husband has since started rekindling his faith, but that initial reaction of betrayal is still deep inside. I think this may be the more common feeling after loss. So, in my opinion, Tripodo’s complete TRUST in God amazes me. Not only did he continue to just call himself a Christian, he wholeheartedly believed in his God to deliver a miracle.