(April 23, 2018 at 7:16 pm)G Alan Wrote: Hi everyone. First of all I want to be honest and let you know that I am a Bible believing Christian. I did not join this forum with the intentions to attack, debate, or belittle anyone. I expect the same treatment, please. I am doing a personal study on the topic of apostasy of the Christian faith. 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. 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. If so, how long were you a follower of Jesus and why did you abandon that faith? What is your belief now?
Thank you so much for your time.
G.
What are you doing here then?
We do blaspheme and we do debate. You are a guest here. Nobody is saying you have to leave, you are welcome to stay, but it is unreasonable to make demands on a website you do not own nor or an admin on.
And Christianity IS NOT the only religion we question or reject. Atheists exist in every nation and have left every religion you can think of. We come in all nationalities and skin tones and have left Jewish, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism too. I am talking worldwide mind you, not just this website.
For most of us here, while some were not raised with a religion, but for most of us, we thought about it over long periods of time, questioned and the more we questioned the less sense it made to us to the point we realized it was all nonsense.
And the word "apostate" is a nonsense word to me. It would be as silly to be scorned to me for not believing in Harry Potter or the Tooth Fairy.
Humans of religion worldwide mostly get sold at birth, the religion of their parents. NOBODY back then had our modern knowledge we do now. "That was then, this is now" I apply equally in my skepticism to all religions, not just yours.
No, there is no such thing as a magic baby with super powers just like you accept Thor does not make lightening.
