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April 23, 2018 at 7:16 pm
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.
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April 23, 2018 at 7:19 pm
(April 23, 2018 at 7:16 pm)G Alan Wrote: 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.
Could you do us a flavor and start an intro thread for yourself? We don't know you.
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April 23, 2018 at 7:20 pm
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You're gonna find a bunch of former believers here. Welcome aboard.
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April 23, 2018 at 7:20 pm
I've never believed in Jesus so I can't help you. But there are many here who did so I'll let them speak.
Welcome by the way, hope you stick around and that this isn't a hit and run thread.
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April 23, 2018 at 7:23 pm
I was a Christian until I was about 23. Long story short, I started reading the Bible and realized I didn’t believe anything in there.
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April 23, 2018 at 7:51 pm
I believed until about 15-16 and I just couldn't wrap my head around magic being real, I'm too much of a logical thinker. I gave up religion for what made more sense and what had proof.
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April 23, 2018 at 7:58 pm
I had indoctrination (I could say all the right words at the right times) but I don't think anyone would ever call it faith or belief, certainly not me. Left at age 13.
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April 23, 2018 at 7:59 pm
I was 11 when I realized the church was full of a bunch of con artists masquerading as "holy."
In the ensuing years it occurred to me that the story they were peddling made no sense either.
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April 23, 2018 at 8:04 pm
For someone possibly questioning the whole enterprise, I'd suggest entertaining the idea Apostle Paul was the First Heretic, and try a 'pure Jesus, no Paul' faith approach. You can still use your Bible, just ignore the Paul retconning and hijacking of a new religion he barely had a grasp of. He wound up ignoring quite a bit of Jesusism, and then changing quite a bit of what he had been exposed to.
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RE: Question
April 23, 2018 at 8:11 pm
So, this is a good question., I went to a YMCA church with a babysitter family until I was in my tweens. A bit after that, I found the Unitarian Universalist church and stuck with it for 13 years. At that point, my politics shifted and I knew I didn't beleve in god, so why go to church?
I remain an atheist.
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