Then you need to read it all. The truth is that we all question ourselves and our faith (or lack of) and in doing so, we question God. There is no crime in that. It's when we fail to question the world around us that we sometimes fall prey to the schemes of others. Mohammed comes to mind. So does Joseph Smith. Jim Jones ring a bell?
Each of these worthless men demanded blind faith and threatened holy damnation if their chattel failed to deliver. How dare you question them for in doing so, you question "God". Right.
Any one of us that claims to have total faith in their "faith" (including a belief in "nothing") is lying. We hope. We (some of us) pray. We agonize and theorize but in the end we doubt and all because we have not seen. Nothing wrong with being a doubting Thomas. After over two thousand years it's kinda hard not to have some doubt.
It's only human. But so is hope. And faith is nothing if not hope.
You're wrong. Faith is not hope. Faith is faith and hope is hope. Faith is complete trust or confidence in someone or something. Hope is to want something to happen or be true and think that it could happen or be true.
There is absolutely ZERO doubt in my mind that God exists and the Christ existed and the Bible is true. I don't hope this things are true, I know they are. That's faith.
The Bible is very clear. Satan and his angels run this planet until the second coming. That answers many people's questions.
Finally, The Bible tells me all the reasons the world is the way it is. It's been very accurate.
