Christianity and Suicide

[Godscreated]

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 Who says we can't judge, it all depends on what we are judging about a person and sometimes it depends on the individual Christian and what is going on with them. I know plenty of Christians who do not believe we in the US are not being persecuted and I know some who do, those who do forget what the Christians in the Middle East go through.
I have a question for you, why do you refer to yourself as a former Christian when you do not know  God and as far as you are concerned never did?

GC

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I was a Christian because I was part of the religion. I know a lot of you like to say "Christianity isn't a religion, it's a relationship with god!" Well, you are wrong. A relationship with god is a relationship with god, and Christianity is a religion. You don't have to "know god" at all to be a part of the religion.
And when I was a part of it, I would have told anyone who asked that I did indeed know god. With the same conviction that you say the same now, that's how I was back then. Only recently did I realize that who I knew was myself and that god didn't exist. So you could say I did know god, but my knowledge was incorrect.

 I can agree with your first sentence to a point. Your second sentence needs some defining, religion is the practice of religious and formal things. These things are found in the worship services of Christian churches and they make up the whole of all other religions. practicing these things in no way makes one a Christian it's impossible and the evidence is in the Bible. Paul and the other writers of the NT state plainly that no amount of works can save you. If you do not trust in Jesus as your savior and come to live in a relationship with Him you are lost as last years Easter egg. The NT writings of Paul tell us that we can come to know God regardless of what you might believe and this knowing is knowledge. Just because you didn't experience it doesn't mean you are correct in any statements you make about Christianity. I know of no one who has the knowledge of God that has ever left Christianity. The Christians got their name early own from the secular world because of their deep devout following of Christ, ie. living in a relationship with Him.
 In your 5th sentence you are correct, there are many in the Christian church who do not know Christ and they are hell bound unless they change and accept Christ as their savior. In your 6th sentence you probably did say you knew God, but as it turns out you did not know Him or you would not have rejected Him because of somethings you thought were true. You never and I mean never were convinced you knew God as well as I claim and it's obvious because I will never reject Him. Living in a relationship of knowledge with Him is better than anything you can imagine. I will never deny Him for any reason, why because it's an impossible thing for me to do, I know He is real.
Your last sentence is nothing more than your lack of living for Christ in a relationship with Him, the knowledge you claim to have come by is your desire to break away from religion not a Godly relationship. 

GC