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I mean repent from sinning. You do have to repent of your sins. There's no point saying Jesus died for your sins and then you still sin, my friend. Plus the bible says repent many times.

I've only been repentant for 6 days now after flip flopping from believing to not believing. I think ill stick with it now. I suppose I would go to heaven but after 3 months of repentance I will feel much better about it.

I've thought about and come up with several reasons why i believe which i will list. Whats interesting though is that my sister didn't analyse anything about Christianity but says that 'she knows in her heart that it's right'. I find that touching and i admit that that is a reason for me too. It feels right that this world of injustice and suffering will pass away and the righteous will have a perfect life and the wicked will face justice. It feels right that a perfect god is in control of everything and loves you deeply, he gave us life to enjoy and sustains our life and though we rebelled against him, he loved us enough to send his son to take our punishment. It feels right that he inspires us to be perfect and love each other. I see my sisters point. Others reasons i believe are i find it unbelievable that this world came into existence by chance. Super-intelligence make perfect sense creating and sustaining our well-made complex universe. Then there's the bible. Then there's many bible prophecies that were fulfilled and they were apparently written beforehand. There's gods popularity which made me naturally want to explore it. There are people on the internet/youtube who have had near-death experiences and saw god/Jesus or heaven/hell. Check out Bill wiese who spent 23 minutes in hell. There are documents outside the bible that confirm Jesus existed and was crucified. I find it convincing that Jesus purposefully got crucified so it doesn't sound like he was making it up or he would have backed down under that threat. The disciples also mostly died horrible deaths like Jesus and it makes sense that they would do that because they saw miracles and the risen Christ. So why do you believe?

Believing that wicked men and unbelievers will simply cease to exist is called 'annihilation theory' but I don't think that's accurate. I've read the whole bible and it talks about eternal torment several times just google bible scriptures on hell. Plus there's the rich man and Lazarus...why say that parable if there's no eternal hell. Also at the lake of fire in revelation those who aren't in the book of life burn forever because our souls are immortal I believe. You will exist forever in either heaven or hell. As I said earlier in this thread. I think I will just ignore my opinion and focus on what the word of god says. Hopefully that'll work. I mean my IQ is like 115-120 but gods is infinite basically. So my personal opinions don't matter only god and his word does. Thanks for the replies guys.

maybe I should just rely on gods word and not lean on my own understanding, as the bible says, in psalms I think. The bible says that gods existence is evident through creation. As in how did this complex well-made universe get here. The best explanation is super-intelligence. That's in the bible and there is also the eye-witness accounts of Jesus life and those who had interactions with god. The concept of hell based on my own understanding is absurd but my understanding is extremely limited. I should just the read the bible, do what it says and trust in god because he has all the answers. Unbelief in god is without excuse because of the bible and what's been made. Sounds good.

Yes that's exactly why I want to be perfect. Cos the bible says repent of sins, be perfect, be blameless, be holy and be pure etc. I suppose if you are repenting then gods is changing you...I just wish it was easier.

I guess I just have to pray more and ask the holy spirit for help...also I keep running back to god the next day so I'll try to keep that in mind next time I have doubts. No point losing faith when you know tomorrow you will regret it lol.

I consider any thought or action that is bad or impure a sin. So having sexual fantasies is a sin, not forgiving others is a sin, masturbation is a sin, getting drunk is a sin...…yeah lol lots of things are sins. Like I be perfect for 10 days or so then I just get strong feelings like 'oh as if I deserve hell for these things' and the people I know who aren't religious but are generally good people. I start thinking 'as if they deserve hell'....strong feelings like that come every 10 days or so. It's really hard to shake off. I want to be a perfect Christian and assured of heaven but after 10 days it's like I become a different person . Weird.

lol well I do know Jesus. I read the whole bible and am nearly done a second time and have been Christian for a while now. I know much about the faith. We are all different. It's just after 10 days I get strong feelings that hell can't be real and why believe anything in the bible then? So then I return to an unbelievers lifestyle for a day or two then come back cos I get strong feelings to come back. I know I shouldn't be like this. I thought the last time would be it. However last night I just got strong feelings that there's no hell and if there's no hell then I can't take the bible seriously. I want to be a perfect Christian but I'm struggling with this. But trust me I know ALOT about Christianity and I am sincere until I get those feelings....

Yeah I know but if hells not real and Jesus talked about it a lot then how can you believe the bible?

For the last 6 months I've been a christen but after about 10 days of being faithful and sinless I get these strong feelings that hell is just insane and there couldn't possibly be one. That leads to losing my faith temporarily because then I can't trust what the bible says. How can I stay faithful the rest of my life? Like how could a loving god brutally torture people just cos they had sex or didn't believe in him or they get drunk etc. It's not rational to care so much about those things let alone torture them for eternity. It's hard for me to accept this. If i can't accept hell then why believe anything in the bible you know? A guy called Bill wiese apparently went to hell for 23 minutes and tries to bring the world to repentance after his experience. He has youtube videos and he said that the reason hell is justified is because who you wrong determines the severity of punishment. Like if I punch my (male) friend its wrong, if I punch my mother its much worse and if I punch the queen its FAR worse. Since god is infinitely greater than us in position then sins against him are worthy of eternal punishment. Like if you bashed the queen of England you would probably be put to death, and you can say but I only bashed her, normally you just get 3 months jail for that....well you would still get put to death. While I can see what Bill is saying I still have a hard time accepting it. I could never put someone through that especially for 'little sins' that most good people do. Isn't the right thing to give little things little punishments? If someone heard about Jesus but didn't believe because of reasons that made sense to them shouldn't you be understanding as long as they weren't bad people? I thought these are universally the 'right thing'. I want to be a perfect Christian but these strong gut feelings keep making me lose faith.....any ideas on how to help?

What made me a serious Christian was reading about people who have seen heaven/hell and god/Jesus on youtube and the internet in general. Check out Bill wiese 23 minutes in hell and kat kerrs revealing heaven books. They are both on youtube as well. Also, I find evolution bizarre and not believable and I find god creating this complex, well made universe much more believable than the universe forming by chance. Also there are documents outside the bible that confirm Jesus existence and the fact he was crucified. So if he was lying that he was the son of god then why would he get crucified? Why wouldn't he back down? Same with the disciples. They were mostly brutally murdered. The disciples didn't back down because they saw the risen Christ and miracles. Makes sense to me. Plus there are near-death experiences that confirm heaven/hell and many similarities among them such as colours we haven't seen on earth, beautiful music that words can't describe, feeling great levels of peace, joy and love to name a few. Gods popularity also makes me naturally inquisitive and then there is bible prophecy that has come true and where written beforehand. Oh and lastly there's the bible . I just know god and Jesus are real and it gives me joy, peace and hope to in this life

Just curious.