“I don't believe that once I die there's going to be anything more. To me, believing in heaven (or for that matter, hell) is just indulging in wishful thinking. This life is all we've got, so we might as well enjoy it and not worry about some kind of afterlife.”
“Does God ever speak to people today in a voice they can hear, like He did in Bible times? I know my faith would be stronger if He'd just speak like that to me.”
“How often should I pray? I try to pray every day, and I know I ought to, but sometimes I don't get around to it because I'm preoccupied with other things. Maybe that's wrong, but it's the way I am.”
“I know you keep telling people to read their Bibles, and I've tried, but I don't get anything out of it. I never was much of a reader anyway, and it's just too big. Is God going to be mad at me?”
“My neighbor says that if I just have enough faith, then God will make me rich. Is she right? When I pointed out that it didn't seem to have worked for her, she said it's because her faith isn't strong enough yet.”
“I suppose the Ten Commandments seemed like a good idea several thousand years ago, but time moves on, and we live in a different world. We need to live by our own rules and not be bound by the past.”
“My parents always said there were two things you shouldn't talk about — politics and religion. Well, they never did, but now I'm an adult, and I don't have any idea what to believe. Where can I turn?”
“We just moved to a new town, and the church we've started attending is urging everyone to join a small group Bible study. But we don't know much about the Bible, and I'm afraid we'd just make fools of ourselves. Should we change churches?”
“I supposedly gave my life to God when I was a teenager, and at the time I was very sincere about it. But eventually I drifted away and I know I haven't been living the way I should. If I died right now, do you think I'd still go to heaven?”
“What can you do with someone who refuses to listen to advice? My cousin just moved in with a woman he barely knows and says they're going to get married. Everyone in the family keeps telling him it isn't going to work because she's very self-centered, with children by different men, but he won't listen.”
“What was God doing before He created the world? I had an atheist friend ask me this a few days ago, and I didn’t know what to say.”
“My husband and I don't think we ought to force our religious beliefs on our children. We believe they should be free to choose their own beliefs when they get older. Even if we did force our ideas on them now, they'd probably just rebel against them later.”