RE: The problem with prayer.
August 11, 2016 at 9:25 pm
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2016 at 9:28 pm by GrandizerII.)
(August 11, 2016 at 5:28 pm)Jesster Wrote:(August 5, 2016 at 4:11 am)Godschild Wrote: You have to come to Christ as savior and lord before God will reveal the deeper meaning of scripture. God will move the hearts of those who seriously seek the salvation He offers.
GC
I love how so many Christians assume that atheists were never Christian. That's true for some, but too many people grow up with Christianity for that to be widely true.
I was a Christian until I was 25 and I deeply believed in all of it. I regularly went to church, prayed, and studied the bible in depth. I did everything I was supposed to do and I wanted it. The problem is that the more I looked into it, the more I started to realize how much it resembled a massive pile of horse shit. So don't come here and tell us that we haven't done exactly what you're prescribing. Many of us have been there and we got nothing out of it.
Here's an idea of how, so ironically, I would've responded as a former Evangelical Christian:
One becomes a Christian not by passively believing in its doctrines but by accepting Jesus Christ into one's own life and receiving Him as Lord and Saviour after acknowledging one's limitations and inability to ever please God with our so-called "righteousness". When that happens, you receive the Holy Spirit, and you start to learn to live and walk in God rather than in the flesh. If you never experienced any of that, then you never truly believed.
