When you've lost your Faith

Achilleion said:
How do you work on getting it back when you don't trust any forms of modern Christianity? What I mean by that is I feel the true message has gotten lost and modern churches are more like Tony Robbins self help seminars.
Besides that everything seems geared towards couples and families, churches are so focused on their own futures, they appear to craft all of their messages around them. The last time I went to church I walked out feeling spiritually empty, In the 5 years I invested in this church there was nothing in the messages about salvation, they never mentioned that 5 letter word "Satan" Never discuss prophecy, every discussion is on giving, generosity, being courteous. I'm like, what about God?

Are other churches this dry spiritually? I moved over to Gnosticism and the beliefs of the Cathars because it was very spiritual and there's absolutely nothing commercial about it. Anyone have similar experiences in church? I'm trying to find my way back but the path is difficult, most Pastors seem more concerned about sending their daughters to college than anything else.
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Well, Christadelphians talk a lot about prophecy.

So do any of the Churches of God that are descendants of the Armstrong Worldwide Church of God
 
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@Achilleion I always found it interesting that some version of Gnosticism exists in every major religion today.
Christian Gnosis
Islamic Sufism
Jewish Kabbalah
Hindu Advaita
Buddhist Enligtenment

Gnosis is one of the oldest religious teachings first noted in the earliest civilizations. I moved towards Eastern religion after questioning my atheism and finding the duality of OT and NT in Bible too hard to reconcile. Meditation was the main practice that brought some level of initial peace to my life with manic psychosis at the time.

I experienced Gnosis only once, and naturally, but you should know some version of awakenings can be triggered in many via psychedelics and brain inhibition via neuroscientific means as well. While science originally dismissed the claims of oneness as 'delusion', there is more research and study regarding it now. The field is neurotheology. But those chemically/scientifically triggered versions still don't have the permanent unconditional love rewiring aspect of natural ones.

Good luck on your search. By the grace of God, you will be blessed.
 
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