A Reason for Disbelief

I recently saw a preview for a new documentary called Religulous. From the preview, it basically seems like it is saying that it is stupid to believe in God and just because many do doesn't mean it isn't crazy. He goes on to knock believers of all faiths and mock God. Which is totally fine by free speech. So in a spirit of free speech, I am at liberty also to profess my beliefs. 

God does exist. He does communicate with His children on earth. Those who cannot hear His voice often come to the conclusion that they do not hear because He does not speak. If He doesn't speak to them, then the 'others' must be making it up. This is false. The reason we often cannot hear His voice and feel His love is because we disobey His codes of conduct and commandments. In this state of rebellion, we can either get back on track or justify our loss of light and love by reasoning the light and love never existed in the first place. Then it is easier to go on according to our will in disregard for God's. 

I know God has spoken to me at times in my life. No doubt. I also know that at times I have had a very hard time hearing and it has required making changes to get back on course. Faith in Christ and belief in His atoning sacrifice enable one to feel the spirit again and hear God whisper. So if you don't believe because you do not hear and do not feel- I implore you to utilize Christ's free gift and change, rather than justify your actions and deny God. In so doing, the darkness of heavenly silence will dispel. See below quote.

"Man may deceive his fellow-men, deception may follow deception, and the children of the wicked one may have power to seduce the foolish and untaught, till naught but fiction feeds the many, and the fruit of falsehood carries in its current the giddy to the grave; but one touch with the finger of his love, yes, one ray of glory from the upper world, or one word from the mouth of the Savior, from the bosom of eternity, strikes it all into insignificance, and blots it forever from the mind."

-Oliver Cowdery

His love is manifest and available through the atonement. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

-Matt 3:16

And the way we utilize the atonement I can most simply describe as asking for forgiveness through Christ and not doing it anymore. And if we do it again, asking for forgiveness again, until the not doing it part finally sticks. The danger of repeating sin after repentance is that is you start to think... "This is silly. I can do what I want. I don't feel God forgiving me or talking to me. This repentance is the result of a frenzied mind bothered by a false belief. I'll stop believing, stop feeling bad, and do what I want." Don't be fooled by that line of logic. Repent. God is waiting in love to touch your heart and then you will feel his whispering. Thats what I know.