Atheists who become Christians

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I used to be a Christian. My faith was important to me and something that I took for granted. In my forties, I began to have serious doubts and nothing that I could do would stop those doubts. Actually, at one point in my life I would get down on my face and beg god not to harden my heart. Questioning was traumatic for me and not something I asked to do. Every night I read my bible and my doubts grew.

what if your current unbelief was apart of the answer to the prayer you prayed?

What if in order for you not to live a lukewarm life/hard heart God had to send the wind and rain and take the house/faith you spent 40 years building?

You are making a lot of assumptions about my level of faith. If I had been lukewarm, I wouldn't have been on my face on the floor. Some Christians believe that a real or true Christian can't lose their faith. Perhaps you are one of those. If that is true, you aren't able to accept that someone with faith equal to yours could walk away from Christianity because it means that you could be part of a lie.

That instead of being ignored, you were infact on the cusp of God opening your eyes, mind and Heart? All you need do at this point is to keep knocking.

I can't be ignored by something that doesn't exist. Not certain how long I was supposed to keep knocking. At some point, you have to accept that no one is going to answer

A more accurate compareson would be to ask you would you love the son of an Enemy (ISIS type) who tried to kill you or worse yet your son? Repeatedly? What if he just visited hardship and torment to you or your son day in and day out?

This is actually not a good comparison, at all. Repeatedly, the bible uses verses to describe god a parental figure. So, my relationship with my son is closer in similarity to the bible's concept of god/human relationship then enemy of mine who torments my family's relationship to me. Can you provide some biblical backing for your version of god's relationship to humans? Sometimes I suspect that you don't read your bible.

The bible (Jesus Himself) clearly tells us not all belong to Him. Infact most do not belong to Him. that being the case, the question then becomes how far would you go to keep this enemy and his children from your family?

Jesus said that those who don't feed the hungry, clothe the naked or visit those in prison do not belong to him and he won't know them. That is a far cry from the god from your version of god as described in this post.

If you had it with in your means would you move your family to a gated community and provide them with the best life you could?

No. Why would I move my family to a gated community?

Drich, I have read several of your posts. You don't seem to have read your own holy book.