How often do people lose their faith in God after a traumatic experience?

Crevon_Boyle · Post by **Crevon_Boyle** » 15 Sep 2022, 13:19

Good question. However, I think we have to give credit where credit is due. Such optimism and refusal to admit defeat is rare and should be praised.

Post by **Zainab Wasif** » 15 Sep 2022, 13:38

If it is true faith with conviction, it is not supposed to shake. On the contrary, it should strengthen with difficulty. If it is weak, then it never existed in the first place!

Harry Torsney · Post by **Harry Torsney** » 15 Sep 2022, 23:58

We are all human, and we all lose faith in God during difficult times, but we never know if this is God's test for us. I've always believed that God's time is the best.

Christy Zinny · Post by **Christy Zinny** » 16 Sep 2022, 05:54

People lose their faith in God even at small temptations that comes their way. They compromise and source for alternatives to getting their freedom.

Abimbola Oladokun · Post by **Abimbola Oladokun** » 16 Sep 2022, 10:01

Being a Christian is not an easy feat, especially when you still have to believe and trust in God after somethi g terrible happens to you. You have to struggle against the urge to question His actions and ask yourself if serving him is even worth it. So yes. It is extremely easy to lose faith in God after a traumatic experience, and it is easier to lose faith in him when you have been faithful and staedfast, but still find bad things happening to you and your loved ones.

Abimbola Oladokun · Post by **Abimbola Oladokun** » 16 Sep 2022, 10:01

Being a Christian is not an easy feat, especially when you still have to believe and trust in God after somethi g terrible happens to you. You have to struggle against the urge to question His actions and ask yourself if serving him is even worth it. So yes. It is extremely easy to lose faith in God after a traumatic experience, and it is easier to lose faith in him when you have been faithful and staedfast, but still find bad things happing to you and your loved ones.

Aarya Gondkar · Post by **Aarya Gondkar** » 16 Sep 2022, 11:58

Hi! This is Aarya, and I come from a Hindu family, so I do not have much insight into the Christian faith. But, if we ignore religious boundaries and genuinely put thought into the idea of God, or anything that man worships for that matter, then there is something I have noticed. I hope people don't take this negatively, okay? I have seen people saying they are atheists and yet somewhere following religious family traditions. I have seen people either completely lose their faith, or lose themselves into the idea of worship after a traumatic event. It is all very personal and changes from person to person. Some hate the universe after one things doesn't fall in their favour, and some still trust it. Sometimes, people want to escape the trauma, so they pour their energy into worship, into chanting, into God. Sometimes they need to let out the energy, the frustration, or simply find an answer or reason to satisfy themselves, that's why they blame and lose faith that they previously may or may not have had.
I feel, we as humans, need something to believe in, to keep ourselves sane and working. Then be it religion, work, love, hatred whatever. You just need something to pour your belief and energy into. So, trauma can either take or give into this belief. It's just in the way you see it.

Hope I did not hurt any sentiments, peace out.

Caroline Elizabeth 1 · Post by **Caroline Elizabeth 1** » 16 Sep 2022, 23:12

Tripodo's faith is not common, I've seen a lot of christrians who lose their faith and never return to God after such an experience, those who return back to God have to start all over because that fire that existed in their hearts have to be rekindled which will take some time. Let's take for example, the famous Marie Curie in physics who discovered some radioactive materials, she lost her faith after losing her loved ones and remained an atheist till death. So not everyone goes back to God, the essence of movies like the one you saw is to encourage believers who are going through such, not to give up.

ATaiwo · Post by **ATaiwo** » 16 Sep 2022, 23:39

I cannot say with authority how often people lose their faith in God after such a traumatic experience. However, I have seen cases where people cursed God for letting their loved one die. I have also seen one where the faith increased tenfold because God was now their only anchor.

Fajarr · Post by **Fajarr** » 17 Sep 2022, 14:26

Losing someone one loves does put one's faith to the test. It often goes through the mind of someone who lost their loved one that God is merciless to give them such pain. Yet, we see others brought closer to God and his mercy when their pain finally starts to ebb away.

Post by **Vivian Writes** » 17 Sep 2022, 19:12

From my own experience, when someone loses a loved one, one of the first things they question is their faith. You often hear the question, “Is there really a God even after this tragedy has happened to me?” Some people totally abandon their faith because of their hurt. It is actually not that rampant to see someone hold on to their faith after a terrible loss. That is why Ron’s story is inspiring. It encourages people to still believe even when things are not going as expected at all. Sometimes faith is all a believer has in such times.

Larabs Josh · Post by **Larabs Josh** » 18 Sep 2022, 06:50

I'm not religious but I've seen situations where religious people lose their faith due to some challenging and traumatic experiences. These could be due to a lack of strong faith in their beliefs.

Niyi Briggs · Post by **Niyi Briggs** » 18 Sep 2022, 07:11

It is perfectly normal for people's faith to be shaken when extremely tragic occurrences happen in their lives. I have been there. I have had cause to question God. I was angry with God. I even doubted the existence of God.

Charlie-C · Post by **Charlie-C** » 18 Sep 2022, 17:00

I have been there, lost two children 3 months apart, road accident and still birth. I didn't lose faith but I wasn't praying either during most of that time. I simply suffered.
From my perspective, people are possessive of each other and forget that we actually don't have the means to give each otherife or prevent death.
Losing faith is a choice. God had no hand in it but He takes the blame...simply because He can give life and prevent death.
So why didn't He prevent death! So runs the angry thoughts of accusations.
Well, when the time is right, you'll understand and He will bring back to life, not just yet but surely as His word is.
If He kept the child alive broken up in a road accident to continue living on life support or a premature deformed child in an incubator for the rest of their existence, you'd still accuse Him of enjoying seeing His creatures suffering.
So, be humble as you're not God, you were freely given everything in order to learn that if you love someone or something so intensely, you can also learn to sacrifice yourself by self denial in order to understand the love that He has for you such that He also self-denied Himself by letting His son die in order that you can live again and not die forever, He could have prevented His son dying and lost you the apple of His eye forever. But He did the logical thinking, let His son suffer and die for three days so that you my be saved from doom forever.
This way of thinking may not help someone freshly grieved but no in time you will see why you also can't live forever in your suffering and sickly conditions that you live in this life.

joshfee77 · Post by **joshfee77** » 18 Sep 2022, 20:40

Faith in God is a tough one. For starters, how can we quantify or qualify our belief in a divine being we have never seen? Many people have had experiences in their lives they can't explain, but does that necessarily mean they are from God? I am honestly still struggling with these questions myself, and I can understand why those who have been through traumatic experiences sometimes turn away from God. At the end of the day, it's about working out for yourself where you are in your life, what is important to you, and what you really believe in. If your ultimate goal is love, I believe you will find your way back to God eventually.