2007-02-13 09:55:24 · 8 answers · asked by Asilos Magdalena 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because Christianity has nothing to do with Jesus or God anymore. Just look at what they have done for the past 2000 years and what they are still doing and tell me if God would have anything to do with any organized religion. The path to God is written in the New Testament I think by John. He said in words we can understand that only true and accurate knowledge of God (his word, the bible) was the path to eternal life. He asks us three things basically. Prayer. Accurate knowledge. Keeping his commandments. Which christian now a days does this?
2007-02-21 06:55:39 · answer #1 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
During my formative years, I attended a liberal Protestant church; as I grew older, my Sunday School teachers (particularly one who was a scientist and worked for NASA in Cleveland) encouraged us to think for ourselves, to question our beliefs. I can recall even earlier sitting in Sunday School and wondering, since there was no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny, if there really was a God, either. After I graduated from high school and drifted away from the church of my childhood, my spiritual questioning ran the New Age gamut from Mysticism to Qabalism (and everything in between); the result was that the best I could do so far as adopting a theological philosophy was to embrace agnosticism, admitting to myself that, in fact, I do not know whether or not God exists (though I tend to think more as a non-theist); thus I can not commit to any organized religion or system of worship when to do so would be hypocritical of me. Additionally, I became quite disillusioned with the Christian Church and its Right Wing political agenda which seems intent upon destroying our secular Constitution. In truth, I doubt that I was ever fundamentally a "Christian" as a follower of Jesus, having accepted the concept of Christ as the Savior, or regarding the Bible as infallible and literal.
2007-02-16 15:21:59 · answer #2 · answered by Lynci 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I realized i wasn't so much lied to as misled. The church didn't mention the fact they changed the sabboth to a pagan day at Constintine's request. Nor that they were started not by Christ or his half brother John (a disciple), but by Paul/Saul who never knew Christ (except in a vision) and that the Nazarenes didn't like Paul's ideas. Also that the church never mentioned it's wrong to pray to the dead (saints), that no one man is closer to God than another (no such thing as "God's emmisary on earth), that only God can forgive sin (not priest at confession), and lets not forget all the judgment that the church leads us to do--even of other churches. That whole thing is a perverion of what God would want....
2007-02-19 14:02:39 · answer #3 · answered by D4gotten1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian although have not always practiced christianity since I first came to believe things that have gotten in my way were things and pleasures of this world alcohol, drugs, woman wanting to do my own thing thank God that his grace is sufficient for me and that I am now serving the Lord.
2007-02-21 16:40:56 · answer #4 · answered by Nate_777 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry this is opposite answer to your question but I thought I'd put it down as I'm making a point about the question of belief and some of the answers....
I was raised an atheist, not told about god and not allowed to attend church. I had never heard of jesus till i was 15. My mother taught me to think for myself throughout my life, she believed christians did not think for themselves and were not intelligent in their thinking.
I became very good at thinking for myself and I became a christian as an adult much to her horror. I am a strong christian. and the thinking for myself part comes in that I don't let the church or people tell me what to think. I'ts between me and god.
2007-02-21 08:21:23 · answer #5 · answered by Sarah H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because I was finally able to separate "God" from "religion." I realized that "religion" is man's effort to codify the laws of God, and that once man gets into the picture, his own greed and lust for power take over, and the "rituals" he creates are not designed to please God so much as they are to reinforce the dogma of a particular religion for mans ultimate benefit (power, money, fame, etc). From there is was a short trip to realizing that, for me, the concept of God simply didn't fit the evidence around me.
I was raised Catholic, then went through Protestantism and Methodism before becoming agnostic.
2007-02-20 01:36:15 · answer #6 · answered by innovator 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scholars agree that the name "Christian" was given to the followers of Christ. So, why leave?
2007-02-13 18:43:26 · answer #7 · answered by House Speaker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because christanity is a man-made tradition, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ.
2007-02-20 15:53:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋