2006-07-12 07:36:53 · 10 answers · asked by Mr. Mojo Risin 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Life made me change
how can I believe in some higher power
that every one says loves me but killed my family
Yeah I really want to praise God
2006-07-12 07:51:20 · answer #1 · answered by ☆BadNews☆® 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can not take the word of some people that lived some 2000 years ago. And to think that these men didn't make up some of the stuff is wrong. What really made me change was the fact that Moses was told how to build the Arc of the Covent in detail by god but the arc is nothing more than a copassitor that the egypton royalty already new how to build and what was moses before he lead his people out of Egypt? Royalty in Egypt.
2006-07-12 14:59:29 · answer #2 · answered by football freak 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believed as a child. For the same reasons that I no longer believe in the Tooth Fairy or Santa Clause: through knowledge, I grew out of it.
Also, if you read the bible from the standpoint of when it might have been written, it makes sense that they made it up. There are also stupid items in there like God creating people, then when they don't act as he wants, he drowns them... It is ludicrous that a being could create the universe in 6 days and then have to resort to drowning his people. If my dog pees on the carpet, I don't toss him into the pool with no way to get out. Sorry, but God in the bible does not seem very god-like. Another funny example is in the part about Eden. Lucifer is charged with offering the fruit of knowledge and Adam and Eve are punished for eating it. Hmmm, so god wants mindless pets and Lucifer wants to help us gain knowledge. Sounds like Lucifer is a kind teacher and God is a childish lunatic.
I'd rather live a great life and not worry about something as silly as an afterlife.
2006-07-12 15:02:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I was baptized Catholic and went to Catholic schools all the way through college. For a few years in there, I visited Lutheran, Baptist churches, Kingdom Halls and non-denominational churches. I even studied religions of the world in college, but some of the things I saw in my everyday life just did not make sense regardless of how many Bible verses I applied to rationalize them away. I began to really look at the things I was taught and question them. It just didn't add up. One never really realizes how much their surroundings are contrived and controlled until you step out that environment. I took some consolation in the fact that even when I was a believer (or actually a follower of what I was told to believe) I never cast judgment on other people or tried to convert people who did not agree with my religion. Interestingly, my willingness to embrace all people is one of the reasons mt Catholic family and church rejected me.
2006-07-14 03:59:30 · answer #4 · answered by jd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, someone asked something on here about how it is possible for other religions to do things in the name of their God and come out fine and that got me thinking so I started researching every religion and Christianity and I began to notice contradictions in the bible and noticing that the only way that all of the stories in the bible were true was by the power of God but that was it. I needed more, then I looked into the story of Jesus and I noticed that Mary's virginity was never tested when she got married as was custom, and in the end when he was on the cross he asked God why he had forsaken him and that only seemed like he had finally realized that he wasn't who he said he was. So finally I had asked for a sign,3 in fact, and nothing happened. God should have shown himself to me if he was real. If he is then he failed me, but I truly feel that he is a figment of our imaginations
2006-07-12 14:47:08 · answer #5 · answered by 20mommy05 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am of the Christian Faith. And I can tell you with absolute certainty that there is no such thing as an EX Christian... It is not possable for one of The True Christian Faith to "convert" to any thing else. Those of The Faith who Truly know The Faith are in The Faith for eternity....
If one claims to be ex... they never were of The Faith to begin with.
no one is born into The Faith. No one is compeled into The Faith. no one is of TheFaith because of the country they are in. No rite or act or work or decree of any man can make one of The Faith.
If one "thinks" they are of The Faith they are not.
Once Saved always Saved. And one who is truly Saved by The Blood of Jesus The Christ Knows they are Saved.
No one who Knows The Truth of their Salvation will ever,nor could they any way, give it up...period
2006-07-12 14:49:08 · answer #6 · answered by IdahoMike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I stopped being a Christian because I finally admitted that:
1. I don't like Jesus
2. I could never truly yield to my husband (except for the fun of it)
3. Practicing witchcraft sounded like a GOOD idea to me
4. I would rather go to hell than go to church
5. I can't bring myself to worship a God who has temper tantrums
6. Dr. Seuss taught me better morals than the "Holy" Bible did
7. I'm too rational to be a successful Christian
2006-07-13 04:15:17 · answer #7 · answered by Tea 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ex ?
No they tried to brainwash me when I was a kid but by the time I was 10 I knew there was something wrong with the book.
And here is all anybody who isn't scared to think would need today in order to see the ignorance involved http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/
2006-07-12 14:51:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am. When I found out that many of the OT Bible stories actually originated for the ancient Sumerian and Babylonian mythologies. They have been dumbed down, changed from multiply gods to one and thousands of years later found their way into the bible.
2006-07-12 14:46:38 · answer #9 · answered by cj 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a former Atheist.
2006-07-12 14:39:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋