Why did you start/stop believing in God? (please read for details)?

Question

For believers turned non believers and non believers turned believers. Was there a specific event in your life or a serious of events that led you to change your views?

Answer 1

There was no big event, it was just a gradual realisation that the whole thing was just another fairy tale.

Answer 2

This is a great question. I never stopped really believing in God, it's just that my perception of God changed so much that I could no longer call myself Christian because my view of the divine no longer met the guidelines. I honestly think the turning point was when my aunt kept dragging my sister and I to church with her and sent us to vacation bible school. I began hearing the bible stories, I started asking questions, and the adults danced around the questions, never really answering them. I finally gave up on Christianity because it didn't make sense and because I found a path that DID make more sense to me. Now, even as an adult - I still have unanswered questions. The one person who ever came closest to answering my questions in a way that it made any sense was a Catholic priest. But when it came right down to it I realized he was actually very gnostic and hermetic and the path I was on then and am on now, is also a bit more on the gnostic/hermetic side. It really does make the most sense to me. So it's not my belief in God that's lacking (and even though I have many gods, it might interest everyone to know that I see them all as part of one whole) - it's that I can't swallow the Christian perception/interpretation of God, nor some of the dogma and doctrine.

Answer 3

When I was about 9-10(I was a Christian then), and realized that people actually believed in the Adam and Eve story, Noah's ark, The Bible, I sat in realization that these people didn't think of these as just a story, and that's when I realized I never really was a 'True Christian'.

Of course, then I thought about the idea of gawd, and guess what? I found, yet again, that I never really thought about religion, and when I did, I realized I didn't really believe in anything.

The only reason why I have such distaste for the Catholic religion is having it been shoved down my throat since I was little, I am SICK of hearing about it.

I did go through a phase of believing in gods/goddesses and reincarnation, but I outgrew that in a few months. :/

There you have it.

Answer 4

Before, I was a believer but didn't understand. When Christ came to me one afternoon, I sat and pondered the visit, and at length forbid Him to stay, and settled in to my usual "dog eat dog" version of life and the world. Little did I know that I had been chosen to see light while on earth. It was I who was not ready at that time. Many months passed and again the true idea of God came, and this time I touched it and understood. I would hope that all would experience this in this age, because so many questions are answered at once.

Answer 5

I was raised by a Baptist Father who taught us Pentecostal ways then married a Catholic. I read the King James, Book of Mormon, the Catholic bible, which I forget the name of and every other bible I could get my hands on. I researched tons of religions, each religion says they are the way, the only way, even though they all believe differently. So, I gave up and stopped reading and listening for years.

Then one day I picked up my King James bible and began reading again. What I realized was due to all religions pushing and pulling, my faith was bruised. In Revelation it speaks of false religion as being the harlot who rides the wild beast, which is governments of the world. So what happened for me is, I realized I do believe in and respect God and his word the bible, believe in his son Jesus Christ, but I have nothing to do with organized religion.

Answer 6

Many confused reasons.
People make changes because of friends, of spouses, of tyrants, of money, of fear, of disappointment, of reputation, of hope, of ignorance, of pride...
The only good reason is a catch of light from the Promised Messenger of the One True God: the Jewish Simon turned to Christ, the Hindu Ananda turned to Buddha, and most recently in religious history the Muslim poetessTahirih turned to the Bab...Their changing didn't break their intimate relations with the old religions, but only showed an eternal loyalty to the interrupted flow of God's grace in His Progressive Revelation.

Answer 7

Because I first met God and His Son Jesus and felt His Holy Spirit as a young child and when older returned to the source of peace, joy, happiness and the mender of broken wings! He removed bitterness from a really bad life circumstance and changed my mind, changed my mouth, changed my feet, changed my heart! I thank God I was brought up in a Bible believing church and Christian home so I wouldn't listen to the devil when he tried to destroy my life putting evil thoughts in my head and telling me that nobody loved me and my life had no value. God's message is the opposite and it's just as real in the realm of good, pure, loving and holy as satan's gloom and doom is real.

Answer 8

I do not know the answer to this question i still struggle do come to terms in NOT believing in God, i think the reason i don't believe any more is because there is to many questions that can not be answered about God and his way...

Answer 9

Conviction of my sinfulness by God's Holy Spirit. Once I'd read and studied books -and other evidence- about the different beliefs about origins, including evolution, I knew without a doubt that the Bible and its contents were far more supported by all the evidence than anything else. This isn't a blind faith. God says,"Come let us reason together". One only needs to study all available evidence with an honest, open and receptive mind to realize the truth of the Bible

Answer 10

When I was a child I was told that Santa, the tooth fairy and god existed. I stopped believing in god and Santa and the tooth fairy when I grew up and got an education. I could then think for myself.