Non-Christians if you were once Christian, how were you treated when you left the church?
Christians please don't say a true Christian would never leave, either answer the question as asked or skip it. Please.
2007-06-20 10:30:46 · 8 answers · asked by Aria 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
actually they were quite rude to me when i asked questions regarding the validity of the bible.
i grew up in a christian school, for 12 years. in about my 9th year, during bible class i had a couple questions. i pretty much got outcast for asking them. i got a lot of really nasty looks, even from the teacher =\
2007-06-20 10:34:28 · answer #1 · answered by Chippy v1.0.0.3b 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I left the church, but it was to be united in spirit with every believer in a higher universal spiritual church.
They did not like it much, but they still talk to me and love me the same. I was always critical in my mind about certain things. The same I was with the catholics, etc.
But a man has to take food of wisdom wherever there is some to be found, and then keep on the way of total divination, winning or not.
I learn everyday, ...even from animals. They don't kill each other unless it is for food. Of course now days even some animals are crazy, with so much contamination on the ground and atomic tests in the sea.
2007-06-20 18:05:00 · answer #2 · answered by Davinci22 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I kind of cheated when I left the church; I went away to college, showed up at Christmas for a couple years, and I don't think anyone really noticed outside of my family. But I went to a mainline church in a city; there's very little of that Christian nosiness in the church I grew up in.
2007-06-20 17:35:11 · answer #3 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a sense of loss that one of us is no longer with us. a lot of introspection and wondering what was it that caused the change and were we a part of it.( I have been through this a few times) See if they are still willing to be friends or at least friendly with us(Some people prefer to make a complete break)
2007-06-20 17:38:53 · answer #4 · answered by David F 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was pretty much ostrasized by family and friends. But I found new friends who are also like my family now. So, no harm, no foul. That's the way I like to look at it.
2007-06-20 17:37:14 · answer #5 · answered by Sr. Mary Holywater 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing that I could do. I would feel sadness for this person and I would just pray for them.
2007-06-20 17:50:55 · answer #6 · answered by biggestjesusfan, † Cat P.W. † 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It happens. I don't think that I would get angry, I would more than likely pray more with and for that person.
2007-06-20 17:33:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1John 2:19 "They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us."
2007-06-20 18:26:30 · answer #8 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋