2006-08-15 04:51:56 · 22 answers · asked by 自由思想家 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Which God does a new born baby believe in? If none, that by defintion makes him an atheist, until he is programmed with some belief
2006-08-15 04:58:55 · update #1
your not born atheist when you get older and understand what you want to be and thats what you are but your parents cant just say atheist and be done with it it is not their place in no manner to choose.
2006-08-15 04:56:24 · answer #1 · answered by Lauren D 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First of all there is no way you can "repent" of Christianity. If you want to be an atheist than you were never "born again" in the first place. Anyone who truly believes in the Word of God could never, ever turn completely away from God. The person could walk away from God for awhile but they will always come back because God will never stop calling them. Second, you aren't born anything - atheist or otherwise. Children don't have beliefs until they're old enough to understand what beliefs are. According to the Bible until you reach the age of accountability, should you die, you will go to Heaven.
If you want to be an atheist, that's your choice. But no way were you ever a true born again Christian if you really want that.
Of course, 98% of people don't even understand what Christianity really is.
2006-08-15 12:01:43 · answer #2 · answered by twice1203 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a mistaken attitude about new borns. They belong to God until the age of reason, which in some comes as early as 5 or 6 years and some may take up to 12 years. Until that time, their sins are forgiven. They are NOT atheists.
2006-08-15 12:46:43 · answer #3 · answered by stullerrl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you are first born you have no undestanding of Christianity, or of Atheism. Its something you are taught to believe and a choice. Everything you do in life is a choice GOD gave evevy man a freewill and you can make the choice to stop believing in GOD but you cannot repent on believing in GOD because repenting is asking for forgivness for something so it would be like you asking GOD to forgive you for believign in him you would be contradicting yourself. I hope you are a believer.
PEACE
2006-08-15 12:02:50 · answer #4 · answered by David H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you become atheist again, then you weren't a Christian in the first place. Something special happens when one gives their life to Christ. You may still struggle with some bad habits and mess up sometimes, but you are still a new creature and those old things have and continue to pass away.
2006-08-15 11:58:29 · answer #5 · answered by TexasBoy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you can forsake God...but it be a little like climbing back into a sewer.
It be like smashing your head against a brick wall just because it felt so good when you stopped..it doesn't make sense
It be like being pulled out of the water by a life guard when your drowning..then insist on jumping in the deep end with heavy weights chained to you..
but yes it's possible to do this..but why?
2006-08-15 11:59:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People aren't born anything - when it comes to issues of theology people are born as a tabula rasa (blank slate - as John Locke explained) and it is societies' institutions that corrupt them (as Jean-Jacques Rousseau concluded). However, ultimately it is society that with its laws prevent man to digress into living by the laws of nature - kill or be killed (Thomas Hobbes).
I guess the really question is can atheists - like other theists - realize the hypocracy of their own institutions. Some how I don't think they are met to.
2006-08-15 12:11:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you are born you are not an atheist, you don't even care! YOu only care about eating and sleeping!
and yes someone can repent christianity and become atheist.
I am not an atheist, I am God's loyal opposition
(Buddhism Owns, )
2006-08-15 11:57:23 · answer #8 · answered by Snow surfer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure its accurate to say that new borns are capable of believing one way or the other. They may have the seeds of some belief or persepctive in them, like instincts that later develop.
2006-08-15 11:56:47 · answer #9 · answered by Rjmail 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you believe it's best for you, and by the way my brother-in-law studied theology and yes you can repent Christianity and become an atheist again because when you change religions it's like rebirth
2006-08-15 12:01:19 · answer #10 · answered by cindy k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything is possible where people are concerned. We can do what we like except for things that are clearly physically impossible. We can repent, recant, backslide, sideslide, frontslide, return, regret, etc. etc. It's a free world.
2006-08-15 11:57:53 · answer #11 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋