What do you call it when you lose faith in God?
The word ‘despair’ comes to mind as when a person loses faith in anything in which he/she once possessed, especially in a loved one, in oneself or more importantly in a Heavenly Father to believe in, that emotion most often takes hold.
What does a loss of faith mean?
: to no longer believe that (someone or something) can be trusted people who have lost faith in their government.
What is another word for losing faith?
What is another word for lose faith?
| give up | despair |
|---|---|
| have no hope | plumb the depths |
| look on the black side | see no light at the end of the tunnel |
| throw in the sponge | flag |
| relinquish hope | give up on |
Should we lose our faith because of suffering?
When people lose their faith because of suffering, it’s usually a weak or nominal faith that doesn’t account for or prepare them for evil and suffering. I believe that any faith not based on the truth needs to be lost. The sooner, the better. Believing God exists is not the same as trusting the God who exists.
Is losing your faith God’s gift to you?
Losing your faith may be God’s gift to you. Only when you jettison ungrounded and untrue faith can you replace it with valid faith in the true God—faith that can pass, and even find strength in, the most formidable of life’s tests. In her moving book The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion writes about the sudden, unexpected death of her husband.
Can a nominal Christian lose his faith?
A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But that’s actually a good thing.
Is your faith choked and strangled by distractions?
For others, their faith is choked and strangled by the distraction of trying so hard to be holy enough. Once you buy into the lie that you can earn God’s favor: His love, His acceptance, His thumbs up, His “Well done good and faithful servant” – you’ve entered the hamster-wheel of legalism, from which there is no rest.