A close friend of mine has recently told me that he's completely lost his faith in God.  He claims there is no God and religion is just a big scam, there's no evidence of it... and we can't prove any of it is really true.  I was so suprised by this because I've always known him as a believer, and now it's all changed.  I don't want my friend to go to hell, but he's so intent on proving me wrong about God.  Everything he was saying made me sick to my stomach.  I plan to keep talking to him about God and praying for him... Has anyone else had any experiences like this?

I have a parent like this. It breaks my heart as well because I know they are wrong and I feel like it would be my fault if they spent their eternity in Hell. How can you not know that God is real? There are promises in His word, there are miracles only God made, which are happening every day and more importantly through the Holy Spirit we can feel God's grace and presence in our lives. Who else could have made us and the world we live in? Keep praying for all unsaved family and friends. Every Christian is supposed to be a missionary and preach where they are located, this means we can witness to the people in our own hometown and try and win them over to Jesus. Good luck, this can be frustrating and hard..Keep with it though.

People usually become this way when they're bitter or angry about something.  Or when something went wrong in their lives, so they blame God for it.  I hope you can get through to him.  Now it's important for you to keep living righteously and set an example for him.

I had a friend who went through this also. When I first met him he knew really everything about his religion. He prayed more than anyone I knew and went to church twice a week also. When things started going bad in his life he stopped everything. I was talking to him online and he asked me if I still prayed, I told him ofcourse I did and he admitted to me that he stopped. He said everytime he gets so into praying its like everything goes wrong in his life. But I pointed out to him maybe those bad things that are going on are actually gods doing to prevent him from worse things, and stop him from doing things that are against his religion. And its true, god wasn't punishing him he was helping him. After a few llong talks with him he went back to the way he was and went back to god. I dont think he'll leave his side again.