Question

[pocaracas]

Hi everyone.  First of all I want to be honest and let you know that I am a Bible believing Christian.

Welcome aboard, matey!
Make yourself at home and tell us... what does "Bible believing Christian" mean?

  I did not join this forum with the intentions to attack, debate, or belittle anyone. I expect the same treatment, please.

Good thing you asked please...

  I am doing a personal study on the topic of apostasy of the Christian faith.

So... just for your own personal curiosity?

Some believers think that a person of Christian faith can choose to not follow Jesus.  I do have my own beliefs about this subject of which i will not discuss.  I do personally know of one person who kind of turned away for a period of time , but eventually returned to the faith. 

It is possible to believe and follow the god and the traditions, respectively. And it is also possible to compartmentalize things so that you only follow the parts that you consider to be in line with your own sense of morality, while forgetting those unpleasant parts.

I am here to ask if there are any of people who were a bible believing, Christ following, Christian who chose to "walk away" from that belief.

So many qualifiers at once!

  If so, how long were you a follower of Jesus and why did you abandon that faith?  What is your belief now?

When I was a kid, I thought everyone believed in the existence of god and Catholicism was the only religion in the World. EVERYONE believed in the same thing... at least, judging by how things had been relayed to me... of course, no one ever said that exactly, they just said whatever in a way that made me think that way.
They also said that god is everywhere... and that miracles happen... and that god manifests himself once in a while.

So, around the year of 1990, when I was 9 or 10 years old, I hear on the radio of some event in a lost town in China that they had filmed some rather unusual event.
And I remember thinking, "Boy, they have cameras everywhere!!"
And then the click: "You know what's also everywhere?... god!... how come they never meet?"

That was the trigger.
Add a pinch of education, from History, to Sociology, Psychology, Physics and whatnot... and you can easily paint a very believable picture that accounts for all beliefs, while not considering as real any of the deities that humankind has ever believed in.

Thank you so much for your time.
G.

Gotta go to a meeting. CYA!