athiest to christian, christian to athiest?

Question

so i would like to know if any of you out there have been an athiest and are now christian and if so what changed your mind. and if any of you were a christian and are now an athiest, and what changed your mind. or really any out there of any belief system and changed to another and why.

Answer 1

I was atheist, then agnostic, then Wicca, then christian, then agnostic, then atheist, and now a christian. It's been a long journey, and I couldn't go into how I came to be here without writing a novel , but God called me to him, and revealed himself to me...Blessings to you.

Answer 2

Religious belief is not an indication of intelligence. God calls us but only some answer the call. I believe it has more to do with your rearing. If you come from a family full of God's love, where miracles are prevalent, you have an easier time accepting the truth. If you come up in a Godless home, where cynicism and disbelief are common, then it would stand to reason that atheism would result without outside interference. These are not absolutes. I believe that everyone who examines the facts without bias knows that this is a designed universe. But they don't know what to do with that info. If they really continued on the path to truth it would result in self becoming less important and the deity assuming that role. It would also require moral alignment which is uncomfortable. This is why we can read horoscopes and tarot cards with no social backlash; they require no moral change.

Answer 3

I was raised fundamentalist, which turned me off to Christianity completely. I thought if that was what it meant to be Christian, all the fear and bigotry, it wasn’t for me.

Doubt began to take over by the time I was a teen and I soon became an agnostic.

Only within the past year did God pull me back to him and for the first time in my life I understood what it meant to have a loving relationship with God’s Spirit. This has brought true peace to my life.

Answer 4

Yup . . . I was an atheist and now am a Christian.

It was all because of logic. I was in a materials science class as an engineering student. We were discussing crystal lattices of cooling metals when it struck me how well-ordered the universe was. EVERYTHING obeys laws, from the smallest particles to the largest celestial bodies.

Then I asked myself: who is the lawgiver? Who created the universe and all it's laws? That affirmed my belief in God, the creator.

I embraced Christianity when I saw how beautiful the philosophy was (i.e. "do unto others what you would have others do unto you" "turn the other cheek" etc.) If only we could all live to such high expectations.

I don't hate atheists (after all, I used to be one.) They have my pity. To become worm food after a short and meaningless existence . . . what a waste.

Answer 5

what about christian to another religion. I was a christian but then I found it in myself that God did not limit this universe to what His disciples believed about the universe. If Gods mind is infinite then there are infinite possibility's to every thing we know. If you want to understand any thing you must question your faith. no matter where it leads you there is some truth there.

Answer 6

Got religion forced down my sunday mornings until age 8. Then actually listened to all of us saying the Nicene Creed, and realized what a pile of crap it all was.... so went from neutral, to educated at age 8. Rest of my life has just nthat there ain't no one up there, and ain't that a good thing!!!!!!!!!!! after reading what a monster Yehweh of the Old Testament really was/is.
As one of the profs I took a class from had on his office door wrote: "god, protect us from those who believe in you....."

Nice one prof Kuch, nice.

Answer 7

catholic to atheist.
my decision was made over many factors:
1. my grand parents were expelled from the catholic church when they could not provide an "adequate" donation. (6 children kinda made that hard)
2. the contradictions in the bible
3. the shear evil incentives in the bible as well as the overwhelming intolerance.
4. i see no reason to dull the wonder and beauty of the universe with an all powerful all knowing magical invisible man in the sky
5. and many many more

Answer 8

I was a Christian, now an atheist.

Primary two reasons: study of neuroscience and multiple complete readings of the Bible with multiple Bible Study college courses.

Answer 9

I'm used to call myself agnostic, but it would annoy me when people would think that I am an atheist, so now I call myself an agnostic theist.
So, no.

Look at that thumbs down! I gave my best answer. Is that tolerance?

Answer 10

I would have called myself a Christian at age twelve. After that, no.