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- Herausgeber: RWG Publishing
- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Sprache: Englisch
What do you say to God when your faith is hanging by a thread?
We're often taught that doubt is the opposite of faith, that God is offended by our questions. But what if the most spiritual thing you can do is to be brutally, rawly honest with your Creator?
Conversations With God: Raw Questions, Faithful Answers is a fearless journey into the heart of the toughest questions that plague believers and skeptics alike. This is not a book of tidy, Sunday-school answers. It's a confrontational dialogue with a God who is big enough to handle your anger, your confusion, and your deepest fears.
If You are good, why is there so much suffering?Where were You when I was abused?Why do You feel so silent?How can a loving God send people to hell?
Structured as a series of hard-hitting questions and divine responses, this book moves from foundational doubts about God's nature through the raw struggles of trauma, sickness, and failure, into the practical challenges of forgiveness, prayer, and finding purpose. It offers a vision of a God who is not a distant tyrant, but a compassionate Father who meets you in your pain and invites you into a deeper, more authentic relationship.
If you're tired of superficial faith and are hungry for a truth that can withstand real life, this book is your invitation to a conversation that could change everything.
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Conversations With God
Conversations With God
Bill Vincent
Contents
Copyright © 2025 by Bill Vincent
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
First Printing, 2025
Introduction: The Courage to Ask
You hold in your hands a dangerous book.
It is dangerous not because it seeks to tear down your faith, but because it seeks to unleash it. It is born from a simple, radical idea: that the God of the universe is not afraid of your questions.
Perhaps you’ve been taught that to question God is to disrespect Him. That doubt is the opposite of faith. That the "good Christian" smiles through the pain, stuffs the confusion down deep, and recites a spiritual-sounding platitude to silence the screaming in their soul.
This is a lie.
Authentic faith is not a fragile porcelain vase, beautiful to look at but easily shattered by a hard question. Authentic faith is a wrestling match. It is Jacob gripping the angel in the dark and demanding a blessing, refusing to let go until the dawn breaks. It is the raw, bleeding honesty of the Psalms, where cries of "How long, O Lord?" coexist with declarations of "My God, in whom I trust." It is the desperate father who shouted to Jesus, "I believe; help my unbelief!"
Faith that cannot withstand questioning is not faith at all; it is superstition.
This book is an invitation to a deeper, more truthful relationship with the God who calls you His own. It is for the one who has ever lain awake at night, their mind screaming questions into the silence. It is for the one who has felt the sting of suffering and wondered, "Where are You?" It is for the one who reads the headlines and feels their faith in God's goodness waver. It is for the one who is tired of Sunday school answers for Saturday night problems.
Within these pages, we will not shy away from the hard, raw, and core-shaking questions. The questions about suffering and silence. The questions about hell and holiness. The questions about your purpose and your pain. We will ask them with the bluntness they deserve, refusing to soften their edges.
And we will listen for the answers.
The voice you will "hear" in response throughout this book is not a new revelation, but a reflection of the character of God as He has revealed Himself in Scripture, in the person of Jesus Christ, and through the consistent witness of His Spirit. The answers are grounded in the eternal truth of who He is: a God of both breathtaking love and terrifying holiness, of intimate closeness and transcendent majesty.
So, take a deep breath. Find your courage. Bring your anger, your confusion, your doubt, and your aching need for something real. Bring it all into the light.
The conversation starts now. And the first thing you need to know is that the One you're speaking to has been waiting for you to ask.
Part 1: The Foundation – Who Are You, God?
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Chapter 1: The Reality of God
This chapter confronts the most fundamental doubts that can plague the human heart. Before we can grapple with God’s actions, we must first be confronted by His sheer, undeniable existence. These are the questions that whisper in the quiet of the night, the foundation upon which everything else is built.
1. Are You even there, or is this just wishful thinking?
The silence that sometimes greets our prayers can feel like an answer in itself. In our most honest moments, the fear creeps in: are we just talking to ourselves, projecting our deepest longings onto an empty cosmos? Is this entire conversation just a beautifully crafted coping mechanism for a species that knows it will die?
My Child,This doubt does not offend me. I understand the fragility of the human heart, the way it can mistake silence for absence. But know this: your very capacity to ask this question, your innate yearning for something more, for a purpose beyond the material world—that is not evidence of your invention. It is evidence of my design.
I have set eternity in the human heart (Ecclesiastes 3:11). That persistent, nagging sense that there must be more is my fingerprint upon your soul. You look at the staggering complexity of a single cell, the precise mathematical order of the cosmos, the breathtaking beauty of a mountain range, and you call it nature. I call it my general revelation. My invisible qualities—my eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made (Romans 1:20).
Your longing for me is the echo of my voice that spoke you into being. Your search for meaning is the homing instinct I placed within you. My existence is the foundational reality. Your belief or disbelief does not alter what is. I AM WHO I AM (Exodus 3:14). The question is not whether I am here, but whether you will trust the evidence I have written across all of creation and etched into the very core of your being.
2. Why don't You reveal Yourself in an undeniable, physical way?
If You are real, why the games? Why the mystery? One undeniable, physical appearance. A pillar of fire over every major city. A voice from the sky that all can hear, ending every debate. Would that not solve so much? Why hide in the whispers and the pages of an ancient book when You could end all doubt with a single, global display of power?
My Child,You ask for a spectacle, but I offer a relationship. A demand for proof on your terms is not a search for me; it is a desire for control. If I were to overwhelm you with undeniable, coercive power, where would your freedom be? Where would the space for love, trust, or genuine faith reside? You would not be a lover; you would be a subject cowering before a dictator.
But you are wrong to think I have not done what you ask. I did.
I became undeniable and physical. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us (John 1:14). I walked your dirt, felt your sun, tasted your bread, and shed your tears. In Jesus Christ, I revealed myself completely—not just with power, but with humility. Not just with glory, but with grace and truth. I showed you my hands and my side. I ate a piece of broiled fish before my disciples to prove I was not a ghost (Luke 24:39-43).
And what was the response? Even then, with God in flesh standing before them, many still doubted (Matthew 28:17). The problem is not a lack of evidence; it is the condition of the heart that interprets it.
Now, I reveal myself through my Word, which is alive and active, and through my Spirit, who speaks to the spirit of those who seek me. Faith is not a blind leap into the dark. It is the reasonable response to the evidence I have provided. It is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1). And this faith—this chosen trust in the face of mystery—is the substance I require and the path to the deepest, most authentic relationship with me.
3. If You are the only God, what about other religions?
It seems the height of arrogance. Billions of people, across countless cultures and centuries, seeking the divine in their own ways. Sincere, moral, devout people who find peace and purpose in paths that have nothing to do with Jesus. Are they all simply wrong? Are they all condemned for the "crime" of being born in the wrong place? How can a loving God create such a vast, beautiful tapestry of humanity only to relegate most of it to hell?
My Child,Your heart is right to feel the weight of this question. It reflects my compassion for the nations. I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 33:11). I am the Creator of all, and every good and true thing in any philosophy or religion is a fragment of my truth, a shadow of my reality.
But your question is built on a flawed premise. The issue is not that there are many paths to me, but that there is one fundamental problem separating all of humanity from me: sin. A holy chasm exists that no amount of sincere seeking, moral effort, or religious ritual can bridge. The problem is not a lack of information, but a fatal condition.
This is why I did not send another prophet or another set of rules. I sent a Savior.
I am not merely one path among many. I am the destination. I am not a way to live; I am the way to life (John 14:6). In my great love, I have provided one, sufficient, final solution to the problem that plagues every human heart, regardless of culture: the atoning sacrifice of my Son, Jesus Christ. There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12).
I honor the sincere seeker. My Spirit is at work in the world, drawing hearts toward the light they do not yet fully see. But I alone, as the Author of life and the Judge of all, define the terms of reconciliation. I have defined it by grace, through faith in the finished work of Jesus. This is not arrogance; it is the stunning, costly, and singular expression of a love so profound that it provided the only rescue possible.
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Chapter 2: The Problem of Pain
This is the question that can choke faith in its crib. It is the intellectual and emotional hurdle over which many stumble and fall. We can theorize about God’s existence, but it is the reality of suffering that makes us question His character. This chapter does not offer tidy, philosophical answers to be filed away. It seeks a word from God in the midst of the storm.
1. If You are all-good and all-powerful, why is there evil?
