Why can't church goers admit that their faith is often the result of a faithful upbringing. There is no choice in this world, everything is cause and effect. For example, more criminals come from bad enighborhoods than good ones. Does God just isolate criminals to families in bad neighborhoods?
How can you believe in a God that condemns you to an eternity of hell and torture for not believing in him when it really isn't your decision at all?
2007-02-06 05:43:16 · 9 answers · asked by jandiun 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Educate yourself prior to spewing your judgemental bigotry. Alot of Christians like myself became a Christian in adulthood after following and researching many religions ... no religious upbringing at all.
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.
Ravi Zacharias, Christian
2007-02-06 05:49:26 · answer #1 · answered by me 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes I know that I would because my parents are a different faith than me. My husband was not a Christian when we met, but his parents were. His sister is still not a Christian. I think if you are searching for answers then you will find them. Even if you live in a Muslim country or the middle of the desert. I am blessed to live in the country that I do, where people can freely talk about religion, and God is so easy to find, but I think I could have found Him no matter where I lived. I hope that I would have been open hearted and open minded enough to know that I am too small to control the world and there is more here than what could have happened by chance or by the creation of man.
Criminals are more previlant in poor neighborhoods because there is more need there. Those who need more tend to feel the need to take it by any means nessesary more than those who have in abundance.
It is fully my decision to get up every day and follow Christ or to listen to the people around me and say we evolved. It is part of history and science in every public school and I went there at least 8 hours a day 9 1/2 months of the year for 13 years. And I came home to a house where the only time God was mentioned was a part of a curse. I chose to ignore my pride and have faith. To believe that if God was honest about some things then He was honest about all. To know that I had lived my life wrong and could change, but not only that, I have a father in heaven who loved me so much He will forgive me for all of it. Not just forgive, but forget it has ever happened. He will never bring it up in an arguement to drag me down. To Him, once I am forgiven, it never happened. To KNOW that is not human nature. We have to work at it. We have to study and focus on God. It isn't something that happens by chance.
2007-02-06 13:58:19 · answer #2 · answered by micheletmoore 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wasn't raised Christian. I got saved before my mother did. I came from a broken home. I worked as a waitress while going to college. I thought of Christians as the people I saw as stupid on TV. A co-worker witnessed to me. I still didn't believe. Three years later, I accepted Jesus as my savior.
Criminals have a choice too. To break the law or not. We all make choices in this life. We all come into this world with nothing and we leave with nothing.
God doesn't condemn us to an eternity of hell. We make the choice. I decided to accept the gift. Just as you have a choice too!
2007-02-06 14:00:43 · answer #3 · answered by sunny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The primise of your arguement is not true. Yes MANY Christians today are Christians due to the enviroment they were raised in.
Yet MANY of these home breed Christians also sought to obtain a faith of their own. They studied other religions and questioned if there is a god at all and then came back to Christianity.
Also there are millions of Christians living today who were not raised in a good enviroment or in a Christian home.
Therefore to be a Christian in millions of examples is in fact a decision.
2007-02-06 13:50:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am Catholic, and I think I would still be Catholic if I had different upbringing.
First of all, when I look at the world, I think that only ignorance could make a person believe that no higher power created it.
second, I don't know of one Catholic priest (or many Christian ministers) that would say someone is going to hell just because they are not Christian.
That is a VERY radical Christian theory. If you are a good person, you will go to heaven, no matter your faith.
2007-02-06 13:46:54 · answer #5 · answered by I STILL hate hippies 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
this is usually an interesting argument when it is done well, but we do make a decision. Are you saying that people who live in bad neighborhoods have no choice about being criminals?
2007-02-06 13:55:12 · answer #6 · answered by Love Shepherd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My father died an alcoholic.
His father, my grandfather was an alcoholic.
My uncles, my fathers brothers died alcoholics.
I chose not to drink. My decision through the Grace of Jesus Christ.
Praise be Jesus Christ now and forever.
2007-02-06 13:50:26 · answer #7 · answered by Lives7 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My Grandmother brought me to church a couple of times, other than that i was brought up quite Pagan.
2007-02-06 13:49:15 · answer #8 · answered by màrrach 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was raised Christain. With a different upbrining I may have stayed that way.
2007-02-06 13:48:50 · answer #9 · answered by MotherMayI? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋