I do believe in God for my own personal reasons, but I have no explanation for why he has abandoned this planet.
When the Daniel's prophecy book was released in 1999, I couldn't wait to find out information on the "King of the North" and the end times prophecy. I thought there would be new information. There was not.
There was all the hype about the Millenium Bug that year. People were fearful something would happen.
Then there was 9/11.
Fast forward 13 years and here we are in 2014.
None of us JWs and exJWS for one moment thought that we would be on this side of this system in the 21st century.
The end was always near, but never here.
Consider this:
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2006924
“There Will Come Ridiculers With Their Ridicule”
6 Despite the urgency of the situation, most of earth’s inhabitants are not concerned about the approaching “day of Jehovah.” They mock and ridicule those who warn them of its imminent arrival. True Christians are not surprised by this. They remember the warning recorded by the apostle Peter: “You know this first, that in the last days there will come ridiculers with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desires and saying: ‘Where is this promised presence of his? Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep in death, all things are continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning.’”—2 Peter 3:3, 4.
Since the time this scripture was written, both "the ridiculed and the ridculers" have been dead for 2,000 years.
What are we to think?
And that is why people have lost their faith in God, they see two milleniums have passed and there has been no intervention by God in Earth's affairs.
I did start reading the series "Conversations with God" and found it to be a very interesting, alternative perspective for why God allows bad things to happen.
