How many of you have ever faced moments of doubt about the meaning of life?

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How many of you have ever faced moments of doubt about the meaning of life?

Watershed Moments Someone questions our faith with which we don’t seem to have an answer. Questions that we have but cannot answer. A traumatic experience that leaves us wondering, “why”?

Whether it is the meaning of life or any moral question: believers do not fight humanistic questions with humanistic answers

Statements and Questions to God from Mr. Fry BONE CANCER: “How dare you create a world with such misery…it’s utterly evil.” “Why should I respect a mean-minded, capricious, stupid God…who creates a world so full of injustice and pain?” I wouldn’t want to get in on His terms.

Statements and Questions to God from Mr. Fry “We have to spend our lives on our knees thanking Him. What kind of God would do that?” “Yes, the world is very splendid but it also has in it insects whose whole life-cycle is to burrow into the eyes of children and make them blind…. Why did you do that?” You could easily have made a creation which that didn’t exist. loa loa (African eyeworm)

How Would You Respond?

Our Faith is Built on God’s Word, Not Man’s So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17

If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God… 1 Peter 4:11

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ… 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

Again, How Would You Respond?

God’s Word on Creation Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. Gen. 1:31 Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights… James 1:16- 18

God’s Word on Suffering There were present at that season some who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answered and said to them, “Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things... Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem? Lk. 13:1-4 Calamity on Job’s family. Job 1-2 (see 1:9-12) Our battle is against wickedness in the heavenly places. Eph. 6:-12

How Does That Help Someone In Pain/Suffering? It boils down to faith in Salvation and Hope from this dark world… to all who believe in Jesus, the Christ. Mk. 16:16; Jn. 3:16; Acts 2:38 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. Rev. 21:4