2006-10-08 10:56:27 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
please share your anti testimony
2006-10-08 10:56:58 · update #1
this question is for ex christians, are you christians that stupid to post when this question was meant for those that deconverted, and sandy im a heathen, you know the ones you burned at the stake?
2006-10-08 11:44:10 · update #2
Pretty much. I have to say, there is a lot less guilt over human nature and happiness now. Less pressure to do things because some invisible person in the sky is waiting to punish me or deem me unworthy. Sleeping in on Sundays is nice too. And I think I have a healthier world view, now that I don't think everything is about humans. Trees and animals are much more worthy than humans to inherit the earth. Any omniscient God would have seen that. In otherwords, less guilt, less pride, more pleasure and no fear for my soul. It's doing just fine, thanks much.
2006-10-08 11:14:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am an ex-atheist. I am liberated in Christ.
To know this, it would help to know what liberation is. If one is "liberated" into a life of self-will, then one feels at liberty to do as one wishes and fulfill the self's temporal whims and fancies...which leads to death, as in, eternal separation from God.
To be liberated by seeking God's will and carrying it out once found is to find one's purpose for existing and to joyfully fulfill it, without being ultimately dragged down into the meaninglessness that is responding to the temporal whims and fancies of the self. Sometimes these temporal whims and fancies appear to be of benefit to "the greater good," but it is hard to chronically convince oneself--if one is honest--that there is no good when there is no God in one's heart, and that really what one is doing is operating out of pride and seeking to call oneself noble or civic-minded or what have you.
God's enemy offers what looks to be liberation. Stick with it long enough--the transient susceptibility to self, that is--and you'll find out that you have been deceived.
I hope that you return to God.
2006-10-08 11:03:18 · answer #2 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Has the quality of answers declined as people leap to be the first to answer a question.
2006-10-08 10:57:38 · answer #3 · answered by Mere Mortal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because the idea of having to deal with religious bs helped a lot.
2006-10-08 11:02:02 · answer #4 · answered by analystdevil 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
"Knowing this, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts..."
(2 Peter 3:3)
Thanks pal, for proving the Bible p[rophecies to be true>
2006-10-08 11:01:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes. I felt like I was choking in that place. But that's about it.
2006-10-08 11:04:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well I certainly have back a lot of time I was wasting on all that futility and nonsense, and I have to say my life has improved in every arena.
2006-10-08 10:59:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋