Joel Berger
July 1,2005

Challenges to faith/Faith

The biggest challenge for me in my faith is reason. When ever I start to think about God existing I always have this nagging thought in the back of my head telling me that he does not exist. It is very troubling to me growing up in a Lutheran family and contemplating whether God exists. Another big thing that is a challenge to my Faith is the other world religions. I know that I have been told that they are wrong but I am constantly thinking that maybe Christianity is wrong and one of the other world religions is right. This is also very troubling for me because of the reason stated above. Evolution is another big challenge to my Faith. In my church we believe that God created the earth is six days and rest on the seventh, LITERALLY!!!!! It was different for me to be told about this idea of the big bang theory and how humans somehow evolved from fish. I just do not believe it, I think that it is absurd. I believe in natural selection but not that humans evolved from fish somehow. Another challenge for me is indifference. Sometimes I feel like I just do not care. I know that it is bad to not care, but I do.

One big challenge to my faith is games. For me I love to play video games. I spend hours on the weekend playing. I hear people saying that gaming does not allow kids to use their imaginations and it takes up to much time that they could be spending with their parents or friends. I find myself a culprit to this as well. Many times at night I will spend time playing in the basement rather than upstairs watching TV with my parents and talking with them. Another challenge to my faith is the world around me telling me what kind of friends I should have and what they should look like. This challenge is not that big to me because I really do not care what the world around me says about my friends. Sometimes a challenge for me is my friends. I have two groups of friends and one group of my friends does not like the other group for various reasons that I thing are stupid. I am starting to stray from this group of friends because of this reason. It is starting to make me dislike them a lot and makes me consider if they are my friends.