Christians, are we born as Atheists?

Question

Also at what age did you start knowing and believing in God?

Answer 1

Everyone is born not knowing of a God - so therefore, all are Atheists. It is only as you grow you learn of religion.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I was in church and Sunday school every Sunday learning about God from the time I was able to understand words. I was in the 4 and 5 yr old class when I accepted God into my heart. The teachers didn't force anyone into it. It was our choice, but I felt it. I still remember that classroom clearly.
I think babies are just born innocent. Any child that dies as an infant will go to Heaven. I believe God knows everyones heart and knows at what time each specific person can truly make a choice and accept him. (age wise--everyone is different in the way they mature) Those who are not mature enough to make the decsion and die God takes to Heaven. Those who have matured enough to make it and choose not to, then I think God judges what happens with them.

Answer 4

I'm not a Christian but I think we are all born agnostic. We may have a sense that there is maybe some kind of ultimate Higher Power but are fuzzy on the specifics and not very sure of our belief either. I don't think babies are born atheist because they haven't considered the question yet and are intellectually incapable of resolving the issue. At least that is what my observations of young children lead me to understand.

Answer 5

Romans chapt.3, verse 10-..there is none who is righteous, no, not one. There is none who understands; and none who seeks after God..
I believe in predestination and I believe that God has an elect. I don't believe that people seek God on their own, as the scripture says above. I believe that it's God who calls a person, and it's God who saves people. There is scripture to back it up also (hence the one I just provided).
I became a believer at 27 years old. I'm now 32. I can remember the day (June 6, 2003). I remember by way of testimony, and recall the situations that lead me to Christ. I didn't wake up one day, and decide to become a Christ follower. Circumstances that could only be God induced led me to salvation, of which to God alone be the glory (soli Deo gloria).
I hope that I was of some help for you, and I wish the best for you and your quest. God bless!

Answer 6

I'm an atheist, and I don't' think we are born as atheists. I think it is entirely natural for infants to perceive their parents as god-like beings. Therefore children are particularly prone to accepting what they are taught about the "real God". They have no critical thinking skills, no alternative views to weigh and contrast, and it makes sense to their intuitive view that there are god-like beings.

We are born agnostic. We reach an atheistic view from what we learn in life. The fortunate ones are those whose parents where atheists, and never indoctrinated their children in the first place.
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p.s. I was raised Mormon, and didn't start questioning it until I was 12. It took quite a few more years to completely convince myself that it was wrong.

Answer 7

I think that its impossible to be born with the close intimate knowledge of God. However, its normal to have curiousity/doubts about our origin - but I can't imagine a three year old receiving god and having a life long relationship, it requires understanding; and thought processes aren't truely developed until late teen years.
It is easy to deceive oneself if you have been brought up in a certain religion - brought to church every sunday since you were born. You hear alot of people saying
"I accepted Jesus when I was three years old." this actually happened to me, because my father was a pastor at our local church - i think such pressure when your young just encourages back sliding. I only truely received Christ when I was about 12 or 13.

Answer 8

No. The way I see it, the belief in a higher power is innate. I bet if you took a child and isolated him/her in a room without any connection with people, they will begin to wonder where they came from and where the people that brought them came from and where that chain eventually ends, all on their own. it just takes us a while to organize that belief into a specific religion and categorize it into our minds as "Christianity" or any other organized religion for that matter. So, in my opinion, we're BORN believing in God and a higher power, and then life takes its toll and either reconfirms that belief and like I said, categorizes it, or it denies that belief completely and consciously chooses to not follow it, still categorizing that innate belief but into the category of what people would refer to as Atheism. Either way, it's there. The belief is ALWAYS there...where you choose to "know" it or not is up to the individual being. God bless!!!

Answer 9

I don't think that we are "born" atheists. This is a complex, philosophical position, and most children are just not interested in long cogitory expositions.

I do think that children inherently see new things, and wonder who made them. I have yet to see a child say, "Wow...how many permutations and chance mutations happened to make that?"

Answer 10

No we are born as God's child and are Gentiles (anyone who is not a Jew) I was saved when I was 8 years old