I heard this on YA yesterday and thought it was pretty catchy. (First posting of this Q got deleted for some reason?)
2006-11-15 08:04:14 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Someone who believed in God and then stopped believing in God never REALLY believed in God?
That's a strange concept. It's like saying... someone who has red hair and then dyes their hair blonde never REALLY had red hair to begin with.
Erm....
Yeah. They did.
2006-11-15 08:21:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I saw that a while back on YA. (Probably the same person who said it yesterday.) Just another attempt to portray Christianity as superior over other beliefs. Not all Christians profess that sentiment, but the ones who say "ex-Christians never were Christians" can't accept that a "true Christian" would ever leave the fold.
2006-11-15 08:10:17 · answer #2 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hey! I went to church for quite a few years. I was young, and believed all that was preached. Was I a Christian ? I believed what all the others believed, I think that made me a Christian. When I began to question things like the trinity and virgin births I dropped all of my religious beliefs as just so much superstition.
So I can't go along with your idea, sorry.
2006-11-15 08:15:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Classic. Even better is when someone still *is* a christian, according to themselves, but some other christian doesn't like something the first one did, so the first one is not a "real" christian. Right. It's all simply so they can claim that christians can do no wrong, and no one ever leaves christianity cause it's so great. It's such a transparent self-serving lie that I can't believe anyone really swallows it.
2006-11-15 08:15:45 · answer #4 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-11-24 21:17:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's 100% true. To be a Christian means you are a child of God...most people who "THINK" they were Christians were people who went to a church for a time, probably got offended by some hypocrite or other that they saw and decided to give up on RELIGION....but they NEVER believed to begin with. You can't get "Born Again" and then get Unborn......not scriptural!
Get informed!
2006-11-15 08:10:32 · answer #6 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes I love it. As a former Christian and now a current Buddhist, I have to say when I was a Christian I went all out and was 'saved'. I take my religions seriously. I have been told this one before.
2006-11-15 08:08:35 · answer #7 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I can only assume that the author never questioned ex-Christians before writing it.
2006-11-15 08:16:36 · answer #8 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Once saved, always saved. So how if ur alwayz saved, can u be an ex-christian...? u cant undo being saved, so therefore, if ur an ex-christian, u must have never been saved in the first place. because u cant "x" out being saved.
2006-11-15 08:10:04 · answer #9 · answered by Canadian Princess 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I say this is not true. Because some of the most devout Christians have left it.
2006-11-15 08:18:56 · answer #10 · answered by Umm Ali 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Does not mean a thing. Backsliding has happened forever....they may or may not have been true Christians.
2006-11-15 08:08:53 · answer #11 · answered by chico2149 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋