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I just wondered if anyone would own up to being in a position they themselves had formerly regarded as impossible, and what they think of those who still claim it is? Thanks to all in advance.
2007-05-28 09:29:05 · 6 answers · asked by Bad Liberal 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You know, when I was a christian, that kept being preached at me and I never could accept it. I couldn't figure out how we weren't supposed to judge someone, and if our only evidence was the fruit they bore (spiritual fruit), then how could this person who had been so faithful and so loving and kind and did everything that the rest of us did, NOT have been a christian?
2007-05-28 09:36:00 · answer #1 · answered by Kallan 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am not a person who has fallen away but I would say that someone who did was let down by the people around them.
I would feel that I had failed a person that I was in close fellowship with who fell away. I would seek them out to see if I had failed to love them in some way that caused them to turn against my Lord.
Most of the people I have know of who fell away were scandalized in some way by other Christians, or their unkind teachings, not by God.
2007-05-28 16:47:33 · answer #2 · answered by Makemeaspark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am currently struggling with my faith..I am finding it harder to accept some of the teachings that do not coincide with the behaviors of fellow "Christians"....hipocritical....a bit on both ends I think a lot of my experience and observation come from blind faith..believing just because it has been ingrained generation after generation..If they don't have the motivation to evaluate differences..who am i to say they don't actually believe they are Real Christians...just modeling after their teachers
2007-05-28 16:44:22 · answer #3 · answered by quest4knowledge 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I can't own up to something I never said... I was questioning Christianity at too young an age to accuse others of faithlessness.
2007-05-28 17:43:46 · answer #4 · answered by KC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, when I was a Christian I considered Ex-Christians, as just that...Ex-Christians. I believed they had committed apostasy.
2007-05-28 16:39:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
hmmm... no not really i don't consider i never was... or at least i thought i was but i didn't really fully know everything about christianity...
2007-05-28 16:35:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋