What will it take to shake/strengthen your belief in God? (merged)

Re: What will it take to strengthen your belief in God?

what is the need to "strengthen" belief in God? God is either there or is not there. there cant be an in-between. if you believe in God and then change your view based on something that went wrong in yourlife or didnt go according to your pre-concieved notions of "good things happen to good people" then thats pretty pathetic.
I dont subscribe to the "oh they didnt believe so God wiped out their nation..." stories. I personally dont believe that God works like that. its definitely beyond MY comprehension as to how God works but i do know for sure just by looking around that its not as black and white as many scriptures point it out to be. life is not fair. period. I guess then for every period and for every school of thought the idea of God MUST essentially differ. and thats perfectly ok.