I was raised a Catholic. Used to go church every Sundays, attend
catechism classes, baptized, and even went for confirmation. But as
I grew older, I started having doubts about my faith and question
why all of this? Does God even exist? Its not as if like there is
any evidence of his existence and most of the stories in the bible
I find them to be quite comical (such as the story of Jonah and the
big fish – how is it even biologically possible to swallow a man
whole? And in the story how did Jonah survive without food, water,
or air for 3 days? Or the other story about Jesus making bread and
fish appear out of thin air? Like what???? How’s that even make any
sense?)
Also a lot of my friends are of other religious faith and each
of them tell me the same thing – Believe in their religion or risk
going to hell. So basically all the religions are telling me to
believe in them or I’m going to hell and each of them claiming that
there is some ‘evidence’ or ‘proof’ in why their religion is right
and others are wrong.
So logically speaking. As a educated person, obviously not all
of them are right as there can’t be more than one god right?
Because of this, I have stopped going to church and stopped praying
and saying the rosary as I have many doubts and thoughts.
So, my question is, (and not that I’m ready to give God another
chance) how do I go about making myself believe?