I'm looking for a book/story/passage in the Bible about someone's struggle with lsoing faith and questioning God, etc. I'm sure there is something by somebody, Paul? Job? David? I dunno... Thanks for the help.
Sounds like you already have a pretty good idea of it. Most people would recommend Job but it's a pretty hard book to read.
I have some idea just not 100% sure. Something like this ,22 Psalm 22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? 2 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. 3 Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises [1] of Israel. 4 In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. 5 To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. 6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people. 7 All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads; 8 “He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!” 9 Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts. 10 On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God. 11 Be not far from me, for trouble is near, and there is none to help.
Job is the man as far as losing faith and questioning God. God restored to him double everything he lost, including his children. He got another batch and he will get the originals back in the resurrection. Good passage cson: That is Jesus speaking out of David.
I forget the history behind that psalm. Max or rhester would know a lot better. I think David wrote that while he was either in hiding from his son Absalom or in hiding from Saul. But yeah that's a pretty good example too.
sorry work keeps getting in the way today... Jacob when he betrayed his father Moses when he killed an Egyptian and fled Egypt the first time David wrote Psalm 22 as a psalm of lament and suffering Jonah after God spared Ninevah Elijah after he defeated the prophets of Baal The prodigal son Peter's denial.
Ummmm no. He's a nice guy..but he doesn't believe in talking about sin, won't name it. That's why he draws such a crowd. I'm not in that crowd.
The Jonah story has many interesting twists: 1) God tells Jonah to go to Ninevah 2) Jonah doesn't want to a runs away 3) Jonah gets swallowed 4) Jonah repents 5) Jonah gets puked back up 6) Jonah goes to Ninevah but only half-heartedly does what God told him 7) Ninevah repents and God withholds judgelment 8) Jonah pouts that God didn't kill them
A lot of Bibles will have a section in the back for references appropriate to X or Y issue. Loss of faith is certain to be there. That should be helpful since it can help you draw out passages from the epistles or other random places that don't deal with characters or histories.
