God/Jesus doesn't answer my prayers.

[Toxikmynd]

Or maybe you're looking for the wrong things in the wrong places.

Always a possibility!
Or I'm better off as a heathen

 

[sojourner]

Always a possibility!
Or I'm better off as a heathen

Could be. Nothing wrong with that!

 

[Jainarayan]

I'm asking to be proven wrong on my assumption that Christianity is false.

I don't think anyone can prove one way or another. As Ásatrúar we don't believe any God or Goddess is omnipotent, omniscient or omnipresent. If we were to think of Jesus as another God on the same level as any other, it may be that he does not have the ability to intervene. Remember wyrd. We may not get the answer we want or any answer at all because it's simply not in the cards based on wyrd. Even if Jesus were Supreme God, he may have his own reasons for not granting a prayer request. We get what we need, not what we want. Though ideally they overlap. Not getting an answer from God(dess) is no indication s/he does not exist or that the religion is false.

 

[SpeaksForTheTrees]

Always a possibility!
Or I'm better off as a heathen

Haha depends go shout that in dobhill an your a deadman lol

 

[Eliab ben Benjamin]

To?

To whatever you asked for

 

[Thief]

I have prayed with all my heart for God to show me that he exists, especially recently (Aunt passed away, she was Catholic) I've heard people say that they prayed and he showed them of his existence, so why not me? I take this as proof that Christianity is false. Care to explain/prove me wrong?

God will not prove Himself to Man.
It's suppose to be the other way around.

There will never be a photo, a fingerprint, an equation, or an experiment of science.....to prove God.

Try looking up on a clear night....

 

[Toxikmynd]

This is why I love Asatru. The gods are represented by the things around me. I can see them acting in the world around me without need for miracle. (Not saying Christian's do) I love how Asatru states it like it is "We may or may not get what we ask for" as Thorbjorn said, "Remember wyrd" and this explains my issues perfectly without even leaving my own faith.

 

[Vishvavajra]

It's hard to say that Christianity is categorically false when pretty much nobody can agree on what exactly Christianity is in the first place. I'd say the only reasonable view is that it's a family of traditions, and it's not possible for those to be true or false; they just are.

There's a particular kind of naive theistic view that is rampant in Christianity that can safely be described as false, but it's not as essential to Christian thought as some would have you believe. I'm referring to the idea that the Christian God is an old man in the sky who answers petitions and does favors for you if you ask. Anybody who holds that view is going to be disappointed sooner or later. The fact is that prayer is not a magic spell. It doesn't change external reality by occult means. It might change the person doing the praying, and they might go on to change the world. But praying for X won't magically cause you to have X. That's true whether X is a material good or a spiritual insight.

Of course, praying to pagan gods for those things doesn't work either. Confirmation bias has made theists of all stripes think so over the millennia, but the fact is that prayer isn't a way to hack around the basic laws of causality. That's true no matter whom one is praying to.

 

[psychoslice]

If you believe that God is a man in the sky answering questions like Santa Clues, you will always be disappointed, God is all there is including you and me, life is what it is, there is always going to be so called bad stuff and so called good stuff happing. Its when we only want the good stuff that we suffer, we need to take the good with the bad so we won't suffer.

 

[George-ananda]

Care to explain/prove me wrong?

Are you expecting something dramatic to happen to you for the asking? It rarely happens that way. Your karma may not have been earned. You may need to make more effort in striving to find God. Or just living in love for others is good enough to progress you spiritually.

 

[Domenic]

If you don't believe in God, why would he prove anything to you? The truth is, he will. Jesus will bring all who have not died at a judgment back to life. You along with every body else will have 1,000 years to get your head, and heart right. If you do you will have life, if not you will die. People ask God for things, and he has said, "You pray, and you pray but you do not receive, it is because you asked for the wrong thing." Prayers he does answer he will answer in his time.

 

[Jainarayan]

This is why I love Asatru. The gods are represented by the things around me. I can see them acting in the world around me without need for miracle. (Not saying Christian's do) I love how Asatru states it like it is "We may or may not get what we ask for" as Thorbjorn said, "Remember wyrd" and this explains my issues perfectly without even leaving my own faith.

I was posting yesterday when I was tired and wasn't sure I was making sense. The only other thing I can add to what we both said to reinforce it is to quote a line from The Thirteenth Warrior. The line itself is a misquote (the All-Father did not weave our lives, the Norns do), but I think it sums things up nicely. "The All-Father wove the skein of your life a long time ago. Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won't live one instant longer. Your fate is fixed. Fear profits a man nothing."