Whatever happen to Faith?

I said I'd list my steps on this blog, but I just came across something I had to mention. Okay, another brutal truth. I don't have the heart yet I need when dealing with non-believers. This is so interesting. I was just browsing through some blogs on this site and came across Julia Sweeney's page. I guess she was in SNL for a while and she is a writer. Anyway, what caught my eye was a book she wrote called Letting Go of God. I read a few excerpts from it, and I was not so surprised. It seems like many people that refuse to believe in God or Jesus, take so many things out of context. It appears that she learned some false information about the Bible from priest, so rather than reject His words or go to another minister of faith, she accepts it. She accepts that the Bible is full of myths and stories, and didn't like the fact that Jesus was not always calm and peaceful. Oh well, I've read so many stories of people who have lost their faith or never had it to begin with. My first reaction is anger because it hurts that someone would spit in the face of God. God is not some far away being. He lives in my heart and I talk to him so many times throughout the day. It's the same as if someone rejected my own daddy. The second reaction I have is sadness. I feel sorry for people who can't talk to God, who have no hope of eternal life with Him in heaven. What I've always thought is it is a huge waste of time to talk about how God does not exist, because in the end, if He doesn't exist, then we all disappear. In that case, Christians and non-believers will all be in the same boat. What's not a waste of time is spreading the Gospel, because if it is true, then those that accept Christ will go to heaven. Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess. If's it's not true, what harm has been done by simply believing? In this case Christians (those that have accepted Jesus as their personal savior) will go to heaven, but all other will go to hell. God's words, not mine by the way. I used a lot of "ifs" in my "theories" to make a point. Christians and non-believers as well are not supposed to pick and chose what is relevant in the Bible. We can't come up with our own twists. We have to believe it is the Word of God. If we don't believe that, then what foundation do we have to stand on and how do we defend our faith? The wonderful thing about Jesus, is we only need faith the size of a mustard seed! We are supposed to come to God with childlike faith. Sweeney even mentioned she stopped being childlike and started rationalizing like an adult. (Not her exact words - I don't have it in front of me right now). That's were we go wrong - trying to rationalize God! Just because we, mere humans, can't understand something or can't make something fit into our politically correct world, does that mean it can't be true? We are asked to trust God, not understand everything. That's what faith is all about. Anyway, I hope I did not take anything out of context myself with Julie Sweeney. You can check it out yourself. I think you can just google her name and plenty of info comes up. The last thing I want to do is say something that is not true about someone. I don't like writing from memory alone.