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How do christians view apostasy
December 12, 2014 at 4:11 am
I asked this question on another forum but there were not too many responses from christians so I thought I would repeat it here. I've referred to christians but only because that seems to be the majority of the theist population on this forum.
We have occassional stories of people leaving their religion and a particularly heartfelt account earlier today.
I was wondering whether reading these tales of indoctrination at an early age and then escape later in life if any christian members here relate to any of it? Do you ignore these people? What would you do if your child, who you had brought up strictly christian eventually rejected your god?
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RE: How do christians view apostasy
December 12, 2014 at 9:20 am
My first thought was "None of my children are stupid enough to fall into that". But it was just a thought.
There is a difference between having a knowledge of God and knowing God.
To reject a kid because he falls into a trap is not only dumb, it is against Christian or Jewish principles.
Yes, I know of some of the experiences you guys have had in this regard to yourselves.
The dealer of that experience was wrong, probably resentful and in a failure of faith (in the context of whatever faith they have).
We overcome by faith and patience.
And patience is faith in action.
I apply that to my kids, grandkids and you guys.
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RE: How do christians view apostasy
December 12, 2014 at 10:02 am
Awww... give us a hug, prof.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: How do christians view apostasy
December 12, 2014 at 10:04 am
No thanks. I rather dislike him viewing us as in need of his saving or having fallen into a trap from which his "patience and faith" can rescue us.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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RE: How do christians view apostasy
December 12, 2014 at 10:18 am
I gotta do God in the hell hole?
