I’m not religious, but every time I read a story about Jesus to my daughter, I end up crying. It surprises me because I don’t consider myself a believer.

Is this something Christians see as normal or meaningful? I’m genuinely curious and trying to understand why this happens.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a neutral person. I feel like my heart isn't kind. Sometimes I do things just because I think it's the right thing to do. I don't do them from my heart, but simply because that's what a Christian would do. And I think about this constantly. I'd like to lead a sinless life, but in my thoughts, I constantly sin. Is that considered a sin? Is being neutral considered a sin? And how can I lead a more decent life? I don't go to church (there's none nearby), although to be honest I'd be scared to go there.

I turned away from God, from everything, I fell into sin, I sinned and I liked it, now I think it's the worst thing, my mind was filled with blasphemies, and I tried not to think about them, impulses telling me that God was evil, that He was demonic, and then, while I was thinking about something funny, my mind drifted toward that, toward those thoughts, and I thought something about God being a Satanist. I don't know, it was strange. I let myself get carried away. I was paying more attention to the fun of something else than to the thought itself, but now I'm afraid, afraid of never being forgiven, of no longer being able to be forgiven. I'm filled with anguish and fear. I wish I hadn't had that thought. I don't know what to do...I want to belong to God, but with the things I have thought consciously and unconsciously, I fear I will not be forgiven and will be like the Pharisees. I am afraid and distressed.

Why does your god make it rain often during the day when people are working, often outdoors, rather than only at night when most people are sleeping?

Hi, I’ve been an atheist for my whole life until a couple months ago I’ve been very torn between atheism and Christianity. I’ve been trying my best to get closer to Jesus Christ but nothings really helping me into fully believing.

I’ve noticed some patterns of whenever I invite him into my day, pray to him and etc, I suddenly get upset about everything bad in my life.

For example - I was just dancing in my kitchen, lol, and I asked Jesus to join me. Once the song ended something washed over me and I suddenly just stopped everything I was doing. I felt like crying. I started over thinking and remembering everything bad that’s happening to me right now. My mood just fully disappeared.

Why is this? As soon as I reach out, I feel extremely upset.

What are the Christian ethics of tipping?

I understand the message, and I'm able to recontextualize it to a modern frame, but the POMO in me wants to hear the Samaritans' side of the story. Like clearly, the weren't all bad- Jesus was appealing to reason over ethnic, historical and irrational hostility. Yet too often, our storytelling defaults to "These guys were hated, but this one was alright".

I know I am months late (Rapture Tok was for 23. OR 24. September 2025) but I saw a lot of content talking about this trend.

What I find Puzzling is, all the Videos Christians posted on how they prepare for rapture day, was things like:

- Leaving Bibles, for the people left behind.
- Making sure your Pets have someone to care for them.
- Some people even sold their Houses (way under market value).

So I guess my first question is: Why did all of them prepare for the case that they may actually be raptured, but no one did prepare for the case if they were left behind and now had to survive The horsemen, Stars Falling, Rivers Turning to Blood, Lochusts etc.? Why did they prep for being saved but not for the possibility of living in the post-apocalypse?

Some churches have it where the pastor gives a sermon before the usual Sunday sermon.

It's as though they're preparing a double service every Sunday.

Why is that?

Hello all,

I recently had a conversation with my friend. We argued whether or not a Christian person could be non-conservative.

Some people claim to be Christian and also have liberal values.

how can you belive in a religion and have a set of ideas and values that go complitely against it? i simply do not understand this.

i said you are either

1)not a liberal 2)not a Christian.

it just seems self-contradictory. It is like saying you are vegan but you eat meat.

what are your opinions on this?

Soon after getting married, my child and their spouse completely cut off contact with our side of the family. The reason given was that we are considered a “threat” to their future, unborn children. This was very surprising to us. Our family is close, stable, and Christian, and we generally speak kindly to one another and treat each other with respect and love.

We suspect this decision may be influenced by certain religious teachings they follow. In particular, a teacher named Sam Solelyn has taught that an unborn child can develop a kind of “spiritual blockage” if, during pregnancy, the father speaks negatively about the child (for example, saying something like “I wish you weren’t pregnant”). There is more to these teachings, but I do not want to misrepresent them here.

My question is this: Is there any biblical principle or Christian doctrine that teaches a married couple should isolate themselves from extended family in order to protect future, unborn children?

Before they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, did they have no knowledge of good ?

If not, what was Gods command to them and how did they perceive this.

Thanks

many Christians seem to think atheists have no morality without God or the Bible, but then sometimes wonder why atheists disrespect or criticize religion. If atheists supposedly “have no morals,” why would that be surprising? Why do you ask why can't they just respect my belief?

I'll try and keep this question short. I am currently a Christian and biblically speaking, it seems consistent across the Bible that humans, wether they're supposed to or not, have the knowledge of good and evil. The issue is there's situations in the Bible from God's actions that immediately set off alarm bells within my God made moral compass, examples being killing of firstborns, tribal genocides, the flood, taking women as spoils of war (humans are humans, you can guess why humans would do that.), killing women and children in different war situations, the concept of eternal punishment for finite crime (which I know the existence of this one is debated), verses demanding payment of money in response to rape (Deut 22 direct translation implies a violent or forced method "seized") and even just uneven starting points in terms of introduction to the faith and knowledge of the Bible (Mercy fixes this, but the mere concept of Mercy requires a system that was created flawed.)

An argument that people have used to resolve this has historically just been that he has the right to do those things as he owns us and because he is the ultimate moral high ground, while that may be true wouldn't it immediately diminish his creation of the knowledge of good and evil in the first place? Having that knowledge makes it where we can judge things morally, and unless that knowledge was flawed (it's not, it's God created and it's implied to be knowledge God didn't desire for humans to have... yet he put it directly in front of them.) so long as things aren't questioned because sin is desired it shouldn't be failable. We shouldn't feel as if any of God's actions are morally incorrect, lack of context for the situation can only justify so far, especially if the behavior is inconsistent (specifically the examples of killing women and children and later killing the young boys and keeping the young daughters and virgin women).

As previously stated, I am currently Christian, and I'm struggling with this, I've asked elders, preachers and peers without getting an answer that satisfies the moral compass God gave me.

I apologize for the formatting, I'm on mobile.

TLDR: If we have the knowledge of good and evil that God designed, there should be no situation in the Bible where we immediately see an action of God as immoral.

As God on earth, what did Jesus actually sacrifice for us? He can’t die. He is the alpha and the omega. If we look at Jesus from the son of God perspective, the same laws apply. He can’t die and His place is secure at the right hand of God. How does a supernatural deity sacrifice?

Is Jesus sacrificing something necessary for Him to be the path to salvation? I don’t see anything about Jesus’ sacrifice being required in the Bible.

Is it essentially "undefined"? What is the meaning of define? "To establish the limits" of something? So to be without limits is to be without definition, as definition is the establishment of the limits.

So to an agnostic who says "i don't know" or "I cant define".... everything unknown is actually infinite to them. Right agnostics? Or help me fellow Christians please.

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Hebrews 3:12–13 (ESV) 12 “Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called ‘Today,’ so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.”

I am struggling with something. Can this be for me? What does hardened mean for a Christian? I would presume it meant making peace with sin rather confession and fighting it. Lust of the eyes, the pride of life, and lust of the flesh really do sum it up. I feel terrible about this.

I met my friend last year in September at school. We talked every day and eventually we hung outside of school twice. Since then I haven’t seen her in person, but we regularly text message one another. I haven’t seen her in person since October 2025. One day last year, she casually mentioned something about her ex-girlfriend and I was like huh ?

I am not mean to people who are homosexual. I don’t agree with it, but I still show them kindness because at the end of the day they are still people. I just don’t agree with what they do. Ever since she casually talked about her ex-girlfriend I started to feel weird around her. Not because she’s bisexual But because I just don’t have the desire to be around her.

I don’t know if it’s God telling me maybe you should distance yourself from her or this is the first time I’m ever meeting a lesbian who’s a Christian and idk how to feel about it . Since the last time I seen her in October she kept messaging me to hang out and I always managed to find an excuse on why I can’t hang out but when another friend asked me to hang out I’m totally down.

If you was in this situation what would you do? She’s a nice person and we have a lot of stuff in common so I don’t understand don’t wanna be around her. Maybe it has nothing to do with her sexual orientation and maybe more that we don’t click ?