Atheists becoming Christians?

Question

Is there anyone out there who was an Atheist but then decided to become a Christian? Tell me your experience and why you changed.

Answer 1

Read C. S. Lewis', 'Mere Christianity'. He was converted from atheism. He's a well known educated writer, not only because of this book , but many others, that will give you much to think about not only God but metaphor and mysticism.

Close your eyes and what do you see, nothing ? But what do you see it with ? Did I create my own soul ?

Thinkers, listen, tell me what do you know of that is not inside the soul ? Take a pitcher full of water and set it down on the water - Now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.

The sacred place is not remote; No special roads lead to it. If one proceeds where a guide has pointed, He will find only a slippery moss-covered bridge.

There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that no beginning of beginning. There is something . There is nothing. There is something before the beginning of something and nothing, and something before that. Suddenly there is something and nothing. But between something and nothing , I still really don't know which is something and which is nothing. Now, I've just said something, but I don't really know whether I've said anything or not
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Ten thousand questions are one question. If you cut through the one question, then the ten thousand questions disappear.

..." If you want to tell me that the stars are not words, then stop calling them stars"

Words are just like a man carrying a lamp to look for his property, by which he can say: "This is my property"
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Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the
unknowable. But there it sits neverless, calmly licking it's chops.

Answer 2

I KNOW ALOT OF EX ATHEIST
I WISH I WAS ABLE TO GET ONE HERE TO
TALK TO YOU

BUT THEY NORMALLY FIND TRUTHS IN THE WORD
BY GOING TO A PLACE WHERE ONLY TRUTH IS SPOKEN

Many were atheist because they were brought up in
buildings made by hands of man and didn't tell truth so confusion arose and they decided there couldnt be a God
with all these disparities.

Ex atheists are the best Christians because they go all out
when the finally see the truth
and they don't come to persicute you for not believing
they have patience and love
Atheists are looking for the one truth and when they fall
into it they ride the ball well, thank the LORD

Answer 3

Does being a half and half count? What I mean is sometimes I'm Methodist Christain-thank goodness Methodists are not as strict as some, and sometimes I'm athiest. Sometimes I combine the two. Anyway it depends on what mood I'm in at the time. Ever since I was a child I've never been into God/Jesus the whole Bible stories. I just considered them stories like reading fairy tales which have always appealed to me more. I did pass the joining church ceremoney at 13 but to be blunt I didn't do anything when in the lectures even though the Paster kept telling me to read the Jesus parts and give a review on them. I never did those ether. So I consider myself a half and half.

Answer 4

I'va always been a Catholic, but I'll give you an example of an atheist that became a Catholic.

His name is Giovanni Papini.
Born in Florence as the son of a modest furniture retailer (and former member of Giuseppe Garibaldi's Redshirts) from Borgo degli Albizi, Papini was baptized secretly to avoid the aggressive atheism of his father, and he lived a rustic, lonesome, and precociously introspective childhood. From that time onwards he felt a strong aversion to all beliefs, to all churches, as well as to any form of servitude (which he saw as connected to religion); he also became enchanted with the impossible idea of writing an encyclopedia wherein all cultures would be summarized.

Trained as a schoolteacher, he taught for a few years after 1899, then became a librarian. The literary life attracted Papini, who founded the magazine Il Leonardo, together with Giuseppe Prezzolini, in 1903, then joined Enrico Corradini's group as co-editor of Il Regno. He started publishing short-stories and essays: in 1903, Il tragico quotidiano ("The Tragic Everyday"), in 1907 Il pilota cieco ("The Blind Pilot") and Il crepuscolo dei filosofi ("The Twilight of the Philosophers"). The latter constituted a polemic with established and diverse intellectual figures, such as Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Friedrich Nietzsche - Papini proclaimed to the death of philosophers and the demolition of thinking itself. He briefly flirted with Futurism and other violent and liberating forms of Modernism (Papini is the character in several poems of the period written by Mina Loy).

After leaving Il Leonardo in 1907, Giovanni Papini founded Anima together with Giovanni Amendola. His Parole e sangue ("Words and Blood") essay of the period showed his unequivocal atheism, summoned in his advice:

Humans: become atheists each and all!... God will nevertheless welcome you with all [H]is heart!
Furthermore, Papini sought to create scandal by speculating that Jesus and John the Apostle had a homosexual relationship.

He broke off with Prezzolini, co-editor of Anima, and the paper ceased to appear. Papini founded Lacerba, published between 1913 and 1915 (right before Italy's entry into World War I). In 1912, he published his best-known work, the autobiography Un uomo finito (tr.: "The Failure").

His 1915 collection of prose poetry Cento pagine di poesia, followed by Buffonate and Maschilità, and the 1916 Stroncature - Papini faced Giovanni Boccaccio, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, but also contemporaries such as Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile, and less prominent disciples of Gabriele D'Annunzio.

He published verse in 1917, grouped under the title Opera prima. In 1921, Papini announced his newly-found Roman Catholicism, publishing the international bestseller essay Storia di Cristo ("Life of Christ").


After further verse works, he published the satire Gog (1931) and the essay Dante vivo (tr. "If Dante Were Alive"; 1933).

Largely discredited at the end of World War II, he was defended by the Catholic political right. His work concentrated on different subjects, including a biography of Michelangelo, while he continued to publish dark and tragic essays. He collaborated with Corriere della Sera, contributing articles that were published as a volume after his death"

As you can see this person who was a deep at heart atheist most of his life, somehow, at the end of his life, he found the
truth when he decided to become a believer.

Curious98.

Answer 5

Not me, but there are a few billion Christians and all of them were born as atheists. Most changed their minds as a result of religious indoctrination during childhood.

Answer 6

Dear Friend,

Many athiests find that as they investigate the Bible that they awaken something inside themselves, a desire for truth.

God Bless

Answer 7

Some people who have atheism running in their families who have never thought seriously about religion become religious.

It happens occasionally.

Answer 8

My best guy friend Mason was an Atheist and now he is a hardcore straight-edge Christian. I'm not entirely sure what changed his mind but I know he's a lot happier now.

Answer 9

I was once a dumb athiest. What changed my mind was the power of Jesus. I didnt beleive before, but after going to jail for narcotics and burglary, it was Jesus who saved me. I will admit that I did enjoy the gay sex while inprisoned, but I have been cured of that illness by the love of Jesus as well!! God's power to transform us from sinners into eternal souls is amazing!!!



VLR

Answer 10

I became a christian because I finally accepted god as the great power, good or not, he is god and he will destroy us all if we don't bend our knee and worship. Under penalty of death I swore an oath to worship him for eternity and he bestowed me with eternal life. Now I smite the evils that infest this land.