Christians, Do you think the Christians that converted to Atheists feel better or worse?

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Answer 1

That totaly depends on how you define a Christian! If someone was "pacticing Christianity" and then decided to become an atheist, that means that they most likely never were true Christians in the first place, which probably would have made them miserable as they failed miserably in their pursuit of holiness, which would have led to their decision to become atheists. However, according to Scripture, a true Christian is not one who decides to follow Christ, but is one who has been born again from above by the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit. In that case, if someone was a true Christian and they decided to no longer follow or believe in God, they would undergo the discipline of God who disciplines all whom He loves, and they would indeed be miserable until they repented and returned to the faith.

Answer 2

Atheism isn't a club or a religion you know. We don't all get together and tell unhappy stories about how our lives have no meaning. There aren't meeting every second Tuesday at the room behind Mickey's all night solarium (BROB)

Those who don't believe or question the existence of god are people who prefer reason and strive for understanding rather than blind faith.

These are the people who gave you computers, TV, cars, and pretty much everything else that makes your life so damn easy.

The whole point of humanity isto strive to better ourselves. What ideas do we hold that are the same as 2000 years ago. The mentally ill are witches? Women are lesser than men? Homosexuals should be burned at the stake? The sun revolves around the earth? Travelling at over 25 mph will cause death?

If you want to believe, then fine, I applaud you and envy that you have something that fulfils you so well. I have my health, my wife and my child, all love and are loved, I have my mind and I am happy. You seem to be angry, god isn't really a big fan of that

Answer 3

If someone calling themselves a Christian actually chose to believe that God did not exist, I would question if that person ever came into the saving knowledge of Jesus.

What most people don't understand is that Christianity is not supposed to be a religion, but a relationship with the living God. That means you actually have contact with with Him through prayer and in your daily life. It's not just a mental consent to a higher being. If a 'Christian' hasn't actually experienced God, they more than likely have not been truly saved.

Why do you think so many Christians are hateful? They don't know the God they are trying to serve.

Choosing to turn your back on God, whether or not you know Him, wouldn't be a wonderful feeling.

Answer 4

They will feel great, really awesome. They will have the time of their lives. Sin is fun, it's the best. Even the bible says sin is great, they will think it was the best decision of their lives. BUT, if they were wrong, when they die and find out that it isn't over and they stand before a wrathful God demanding payment for them ignoring him and doing what they wanted, the decision will not seem so great. In fact they would do anything to take it back. But then it will be too late and payment is due. Jesus died to pay that debt and they rejected it so they have no excuse. The shame of it is God still grieves to send them to Hell, even though the chance was there and they laughed and did what they wanted, He still grieves. But make no mistake justice will be served.
So will they be happy. Yes, very happy, for a time. A very short time and if they were wrong they will be unhappy for a VERY long time. It is ultimately your choice , please make the right one.
Justice will be served. May God bless you all.

Answer 5

I couldn't give you any accurate statistics on that but in his book The Case For Faith, Lee Strobel interviews Charles Templeton who used to work with Billy Graham as an evangelist before becoming an Atheist because he couldn't reconcile a good God with all of the suffering in this world.

In the interview it's really sad because he's an old man now and in part of what he says he talks about missing Jesus so much as he used to know Him. It's obvious he longs for his old relationship with God through Christ.

Answer 6

I thought about this yesterday. My world would be chaotic. I think that they would feel great loss. God is a God of order. There are so many patterns in the world, it is innate for us to try to have order. It is like swimming upstream. I would definately say worse in the long term. In the short term instant gratification because they can do what they want somewhat minus the consequences in they are not in Gods mercy. If the Lord has mercy on them they might suffer the consequences sooner and come to their knees. It happens to the best of us.

Answer 7

As an atheist I feel relieved to know the truth, however I was never quite ignorant enough to buy into religion so I don't really qualify to be an example for this question. I imagine that most people who become atheists but were once religious were raised religious but were never fully indoctrinated. I applaud these people, as it sometimes takes courage to stand up to imposing parents that may take this choice as rebellion or following Satan. I am glad that my parents accepted my choice and never attempted to indoctrinate me previously.

Answer 8

It is absolutly impossable for one of The Christian Faith to "convert" to any thing else. That is absolute.... there have been many, and still aremany, who profess to be 'christian" but are not. for many different reasons. These ones can go from "religion" to another, or totaly renounce any thing they wish... They were never "christian" to begin with.

no one is a christian just because he was born in a certain family, culture, or nation, No one is a christian because they got sprinkled or baptized as an infant. No man ritual or doctrin or dogma or act or work can make anyone a christian. no one can just "decide" to be one and say they are....ONLY God decides who is of the Christian Faith. And once you are of the Christian Faith you fully belong to God and you are His for ever.... and YOU WILL NEVER, by free will choise, choose to leave God... NEVER.

Answer 9

Well if they converted to atheism they would no longer be christian.
But truth is much of religion in christianity leaves a lot of empty holes because church leaders do not teach the truth of the Bible.
Hell fire is one of the biggest turn offs and yet a false teaching and an apostasy. God's biggest attribute is love. Churches turn him to a God of cruelty. It is one of the most tragic aspects of christendom that they claim God as cruel. That is why Jehovah Witnesses appeal so much to me they praise God in Truth of what he is of love, justice, mercy and power and not mismalign him as a uncaring, revenging torturer.

Answer 10

"When I became convinced that the Universe is natural that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts, and bars, and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf, or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world, not even in infinite space. I was free.
free to think, to express my thoughts
free to live to my own ideal
free to live for myself and those I loved
free to use all my faculties, all my senses
free to spread imagination's wings
free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope
free to judge and determine for myself
free to reject all ignorant and cruel creeds, all the "inspired" books that savages have produced, and all the barbarous legends of the past
free from popes and priests
free from all the "called" and "set apart"
free from sanctified mistakes and holy lies
free from the fear of eternal pain
free from the winged monsters of night
free from devils, ghosts, and gods
For the first time I was free. There were no prohibited places in all the realms of my thought, no air, no space, where fancy could not spread her painted wings
no chains for my limbs
no lashes for my back
no fires for my flesh
no master's frown or threat
no following another's steps
no need to bow, or cringe, or crawl, or utter lying words.

I was free. I stood erect and fearlessly, joyously, faced all worlds. And then my heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain for the freedom of labor and thought

to those who fell on the fierce fields of war
to those who died in dungeons bound with chains
to those who proudly mounted scaffold's stairs
to those whose bones were crushed, whose flesh was scarred and torn
to those by fire consumed
to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men.
And I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still." ~ Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899), "Why Am I An Agnostic?", 1896