RE: From atheism to Christianity? How so?
January 12, 2015 at 10:53 am
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2015 at 12:52 pm by Grasshopper.)
I could answer the OP's question but don't have time to read ALL 20 pages of replies.
My version of how I came to believe is 50% good and 50% not too good, perhaps intellectually wrong, but it's something I am grateful for. Many of you won't understand what I just wrote.
I always believed there had to be a creator-call it a god, or life-giver or a gnome- whatever.
1) So the 50% good part (in my view) is that I began reading into Christianity for a full 4 years joining discussions and just understanding it and letting it all soak in. But for those 4 years I had abandoned by birth religion and was basically a person with no religion. I left my old religion and became atheist. But that lasted for about 1 week. I found myself disagreeing with myself on the subject of atheism and the non-existence of god. I started learning about Christianity. I made up my mind 4 years later and settled on Orthodox Christianity and I realized the change inside of me. I'm still not baptized though, so officially I'm still a man with no religion.
2) The 50% bad part is something I won't go too much into detail to explain. This 50% pertains to WHY I looked into Christianity in the first place, and you wouldn't want to know the reason. I don't know if I'm too happy with it myself. Sooo . . .
But what I do know is that because of that bad reason led me to the good part. I read into Christianity and it changed me for the better. For one, I started looking at people I don't agree with as just people with their own POV's and not as annoying idiots who disagreed with everything I said.
Now that I've decided I'm Christian, I'm working on the bad part too and soon I feel I will overcome my feelings about it. I'm trying.
Maybe this didn't answer the question. I kinda just needed to let it out.
I'm sorry for reviving a dead thread, if that's a bad thing.
My version of how I came to believe is 50% good and 50% not too good, perhaps intellectually wrong, but it's something I am grateful for. Many of you won't understand what I just wrote.
I always believed there had to be a creator-call it a god, or life-giver or a gnome- whatever.
1) So the 50% good part (in my view) is that I began reading into Christianity for a full 4 years joining discussions and just understanding it and letting it all soak in. But for those 4 years I had abandoned by birth religion and was basically a person with no religion. I left my old religion and became atheist. But that lasted for about 1 week. I found myself disagreeing with myself on the subject of atheism and the non-existence of god. I started learning about Christianity. I made up my mind 4 years later and settled on Orthodox Christianity and I realized the change inside of me. I'm still not baptized though, so officially I'm still a man with no religion.
2) The 50% bad part is something I won't go too much into detail to explain. This 50% pertains to WHY I looked into Christianity in the first place, and you wouldn't want to know the reason. I don't know if I'm too happy with it myself. Sooo . . .
But what I do know is that because of that bad reason led me to the good part. I read into Christianity and it changed me for the better. For one, I started looking at people I don't agree with as just people with their own POV's and not as annoying idiots who disagreed with everything I said.
Now that I've decided I'm Christian, I'm working on the bad part too and soon I feel I will overcome my feelings about it. I'm trying.
Maybe this didn't answer the question. I kinda just needed to let it out.
I'm sorry for reviving a dead thread, if that's a bad thing.