If people have found true religious faith, then how can it be possible to lose true faith?

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This is taken from Mother Teresa's confession of her lost faith in god.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1655720,00.html

That absence seems to have started at almost precisely the time she began tending the poor and dying in Calcutta, and — except for a five-week break in 1959 — never abated. Although perpetually cheery in public, the Teresa of the letters lived in a state of deep and abiding spiritual pain. In more than 40 communications, many of which have never before been published, she bemoans the "dryness," "darkness," "loneliness" and "torture" she is undergoing. She compares the experience to hell and at one point says it has driven her to doubt the existence of heaven and even of God. She is acutely aware of the discrepancy between her inner state and her public demeanour. "The smile," she writes, is "a mask" or "a cloak that covers everything." Similarly, she wonders whether she is engaged in verbal deception. "I spoke as if my very heart was in love with God — tender, personal love," she remarks to an adviser. "If you were [there], you would have said, 'What hypocrisy.'" Says the Rev. James Martin, an editor at the Jesuit magazine America and the author of My Life with the Saints, a book that dealt with far briefer reports in 2003 of Teresa's doubts: "I've never read a saint's life where the saint has such an intense spiritual darkness. No one knew she was that tormented." Recalls Kolodiejchuk, Come Be My Light's editor: "I read one letter to the Sisters [of Teresa's Missionaries of Charity], and their mouths just dropped open. It will give a whole new dimension to the way people understand her."

Nous · Accepted Answer

"FAITH: Not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Nietzsche

scrubbag · Answer

The problem with faith, is that when it is needed the most, that is when it fails. 
The devil will try his hardest to make people deny God, and this will then become a triumph for him. 
The more turmoil and troubles people have, the harder it is for them to keep up their faith in God and the devil is the one causing the turmoil and trouble...so it is at that time, that the faith should be the strongest...

Who else but Mother Theresa, to make lose faith in God, for if she could lose her Faith, then the average person should be able to do so also.  The devil is smart, and deceptive..and works on the strongest, in order to get the weakest to fall into line. 

The whole irony of the thing is that if the push against her to lose her faith was that strong, then the devil must be working overtime...and it just proves, that God does in fact...exist.  Why else would he cause such pains for Mother Theresa? 

I think that faith is like a soldier in battle...before the battle, the soldier has thoughts of dying and getting wounded and he is weakened by these thoughts....but during the battle, he puts these aside and fights, to win the battle.   So, during the actual fighting, is when the soldier needs to be the strongest...and he is. 

During the battle with Satan, is when faith needs to be the strongest.... to stop believing in God when things are going badly for us, is just a win for the Devil...

And therefore, what good is faith, if it is only used...when the going is easy.?

pygonza · Answer

Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.  As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.  Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.  But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.  Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.  Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.

Servant Leader · Answer

Sadly, Mother Teresa's misguided faith in God was because the object of her faith was in the Catholic church instead of in Jesus and Him crucified. She never found the grace and mercy she was looking for because she was decieved in what she believed to be truth, as she trusted in her "good works" which meant nothing without Jesus being the center of everything she did.

I'm sure that most (if not all) of Mother Teresa's prayers were to "the Virgin Mary" or to "the Saints" instead of to "God through Jesus Christ" where they should have been as we see in JOHN 14:13-14 (KJV); JOHN 15:16 (KJV); JOHN 16:23 (KJV);JOHN 16:26 (KJV)...   and "instead of seeking forgiveness through repentance, she used the works of sacrament to try and earn her forgiveness" which did not work as we see in ACTS 5:31(KJV); Acts 26:18 (KJV); EPHESIANS 1:7 (KJV)... and that she was never "born again" which is the one requirement God has set forth in order that one might see or enter the Kingdom of Heaven as we see in JOHN 3:2-7 (KJV).

I did not know her heart, but the evidences were clear in her beliefs and ways. If you (or anyone else) would like to continue this conversation, please email me at tn.ministry@gmail.com.

Nowpower · Answer

She had become attached to a feeling she identified as divine.

Instead of observing that in herself and surrendering to Now, she saw it as a flaw, either in herself, or in other.  She saw God as other.

But that's not surprising.  We're all idiots.

I am far more saddened to read that she thought human suffering was music to God's ears, so she gathered the sick and withheld all medicines to make a sort of orchestra.

That's truly hideous.

May she be free from suffering and all its causes.

Edit:  I used to have complete faith there was a Santa Claus.  My mother told me so.

jpopelish · Answer

The reality of "true religious faith" is just another hypothetical, among many others, that people have faith in.

-- 
Regards,

John Popelish

? · Answer

It's impossible. So if someone says they lost their faith in God or Jesus, they never had it to begin with.

No one who has truly ever experienced the love  and mercy of Jesus would ever walk way from it.

Suit Up · Answer

there is no such thing as TRUE faith. Cuz a faith can not be validated through evidence therefore it is not considered true. If it was true then you'd see in a science book or something

Gee Waman · Answer

Humanity is true faith.

Tami C · Answer

I believe if you have TRUE faith you would never give it up ( I would never turn back) many are decieved and don't know it

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