Question

[Simon Moon]

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.

I was a sincere believer for decades.

But I was also a naturally skeptical person.

When I reached my early 30's, I realized that I never submitted my religious beliefs to the same level of critical thinking and scrutiny that I used for other religious (besides my own) and supernatural claims.

So, I went on a pretty intense study in a sincere attempt to find rational (demonstrable evidence and valid and sound logic) to justify my beliefs.

I came to realize, that my religious beliefs were just not supported by evidence, history, archeology, logic, science, etc, etc.

After giving up my unsupported religious beliefs, I remained a deist for quite a while, mostly based on the philosophical arguments for the existence of a god (Kalam cosmological argument, teleological argument, ontological argument). But then, those soon collapsed due to their being fallacious.  

One day, I just realized, I am an atheist.

My atheism is entirely a provisional position, not a dogmatic one. As long as the case theists provide to support their claim that a god exists, fails to meet its burden of proof, I will remain an atheist.