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Greetings..I guess

Buttercup

Buttercup

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Great introduction! I hope you can find some of the answers your looking for here on RF or at least find some kindred souls. I am in about the same place you are. :)
 
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continuumcomplex said:
Hello everyone. I am new here, obviously, and felt that I should say hello. I have come here as part of a search for answers.. I believe that something must exist aside from the physical world that is obvious to the human eye, yet, I do not know what that is.

I started life as a Christian, as many people have, yet early in highschool I realized that I didn't actually believe that God existed. I had simply been saying "yes, i'm christian" because my parents were, and it was expected of me. I then wandered around for a while, becoming athiest and then an animist briefly, before drifting into a sort of agnosticism.

Anyway, I have a problem; one which has brought me searching here and various other places. I believe that something must exist..yet I do not know what that is. And my mind requires evidence, not just belief. -.- Truly, it is a despairing place that I have reached. At times I get rather depressed about it and so I go searching about and I sit thinking..but I have yet to come up with any good answers. So..i've come here to continue my search.

Thus, I do not know how long I may stay here; but I felt I would let people know that I was here. Because no one likes trolls. :p
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Hello cc, welcome to RF. I would say you are in exactly the right place forum-wise and in terms of your search for meaning.

One thing to keep in mind, is that every real Christian is a convert. No one is "born" a Christian because no one is born with faith in Christ. Some find that true faith when they are children, and never leave (though I know very few personally).

Most of us have gone through some period of searching before finding answers that satisfy us.

Others are never even curious, and never seem to suffer the angst you describe and with which I am very familiar.

I would also say, it would be very unnatural for us to yearn for something that doesn't exist, never existed, and will never exist. It doesn't make sense. It would be like a tree yearning to fly, or a fish yearning to breathe air. Perhaps the yearning itself is an indication of something beyond our immediate experience and perceptions, and it is that something we are called to find.

God gave us appetites to eat and thirst to drink. Maybe he also gave us spiritual emptiness that it might be filled.

The surprise is if you persist, it will find you. Of that I am certain.


God bless you in your search for happiness and peace.
 
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