3 reasons for Christians to start questionng their faith

[John V]

I don't want or desire anyone to suffer eternal punishment, but that's how I interpret the Bible.

You perhaps don't have any active desire to see it happen to people, but perhaps you also aren't very bothered by the idea that your god inflicts it on people.

You don't want or desire it. I find it repulsive and I won't accept a dogma which insists that a god who does something like this on purpose is a good god.

So, you're the person who is more likely to interpret it (in the rare case you actually read it) according to your desires.

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I have Christian friends, who live their lives with very little regard for the Bible and it's decrees.

As a result, they are happy, filled with a sense of liberty, and aren't constantly struggling with social and personal dilemmas.

I'm happy, filled with a sense of liberty, and not constantly struggling with social and personal dilemmas. Paul writes about the liberty we have in Christ ya know.

To answer your question, I wasn't that type of Christian. I always felt that I should be fully in it or fully out.

That doesn't answer my question. You made claims about yourself, then speak of friends in answer. Give some specific things you do now that you thought you couldn't as a Christian. This shouldn't be so hard, unless you're just making stuff up.