I was a Christian for many years and even a preacher. I loved and studied the bible many, many years and it was my study of the bible that gave proof to me that there is no absolute truth and truth is relative to the individual. ( Okay people do not email me, I get tired of people trying to debate me on this. I am answering the question as it is asked from my experience)
I became pagan, Wicca is my path now. I chose it because it is a peaceful earth based religion and I love the rede and try my best to abide by it . I am free to call on different aspects of diety or different gods and goddesses whatever one chooses to believe.
As a pagan I understand that each person has their own path to walk and each person has their own truth. To the Christian Jesus is their saviour and is truth for them but each religion, each spiritual path leads to diety and the individual must decide.
I went through many revelations in my spiritual life. Each phase helped me to become what I am today and each phase helps me to understand others. I was a Missionary Baptist first, so I understand them, then I became a Southern Baptist, so I understand them, then I became an Assembly of God so again I understand these people then I became Oneness Jesus Only Pentecostal, so I understand these folks, then I became a Jehovah's Witness, so I understand them, then I became an athiest, then for the next 25 years I was a member of the churches of Christ and a preacher and studied the bible from the perspective that it says what it maeans and means what is says and was steadfast those 25 years, then I became pagan, Wicca is my path now. so my spiritual experience helps me to understand all walks of life.
Again people do not email me saying I am still a Christian and just confused right now, or that I have givin up on God but he has not given up on me, or that I followed a religion and needed to have a personal relationship with Christ. Although you may mean well all the above is judgemental and condemning. I have heard them all, Remember I am just answering the question from my experience. I have been a Christian debater, personal evangelist, soul winner and have studied the bible with hundreds of people and have personally got into the water and personally baptised dozens of people. I have stood in the pulpit and preached sermons to hundreds of people.I have stayed up late at night praying with hurting people, I have conselled married couples so I have experience in all phases of Christianity and all phases of being a minister.
I chose my path now, so I ask that it is respected and I will respect your decision to be a Christian. For 25 years I debated issues like Baptism, Faith only, Once saved always saved, Modern miracles, modern day revelations, faith healings, does God accept all Christian churches, the sinners prayer, and so on and so forth. Today I respect all spiritual paths.
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2007-06-22 02:52:45
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answered by Anonymous
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Ariel, yes, you did a respectful question, but you HAVE been answered honestly and completely by the Christians who have replied here.
Is the only acceptable answer to you that one that suggests that God is so small and powerless that He can be so easily dismissed by alleged human "proof" or "evidence?" Knowing the fallibility of human logic, how could that ever be?
If you were given undeniable proof that God DOES exist (which can be done, btw,) would you so easily give up your own beliefs?
2007-06-22 06:05:13
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answered by Kellenor 2
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I would stay neutral. Because even if God turned out to be a hoax as you are asking..the things that I was brought up and taught would always be within me. I've been taught some great lessons in my life! I'd just keep truckin along and be me!
2007-06-22 01:41:41
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answered by SDC 5
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through fact on an analogous time as multiple all and sundry is fascinated in reading those religions, Christianity is the main dominant interior the U. S., and subsequently the single that gets the main interest. it rather is one element to benefit a faith for inner maximum expertise and yet another to attempt and understand a faith whose adherents have the means to effect my existence. I ask and answer multiple questions with regard to Christianity through fact i grow to be raised Christian, gave it up, and stay in a usually Christian u . s .. It outcomes me consequently i'm greater nervous approximately it than say Hinduism, which has little to no effect on me.
2016-10-02 22:50:51
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answered by ? 4
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If God didn't create us with a need for something outside ourselves, we wouldn't need Him. But we have that need and it is just the right size for Him. All other things fail to fit for long. You always come away feeling unsatisfied. Take the muslims for instance, they are following an empty feeling of anger and hate. How can that sustain them.
If there were no God we would not be here, and even if we were there would be no need.
2007-06-22 01:48:10
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answered by messiahspaladin 2
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There can be no "undeniable proof" of such an assertion, but what will you do on that day when YOU have undeniable proof of the reverse? THAT question should be the focus of the consternation in which you must surely live your life.
2007-06-22 01:41:16
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answered by Anonymous
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If one worships the one, true God, and that god could somehow be absolutely proven to be a hoax, then there would be no other, and hence no need for any religion at all.
2007-06-22 03:03:49
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answered by Anonymous
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That would be impossible, since "my God" is the One and the Only and yes, He is real and no one can disprove His existence. I'm speaking of the God of the Old Testament Israelites and God Incarnate (Jesus Christ) and since His bodily death, the God of true Catholicism (not the modern stuff)--all the same God.
Of course, people believe in many false gods, so those can be proven as hoaxes.
2007-06-22 01:35:48
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answered by mrearly2 4
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I was given that proof about Jesus, and I turned to paganism :)
People worshipped long before the middle-eastern Abrahamic god came along.. there were many gods, there was nature... it's beautiful and I love my path.
2007-06-22 01:31:00
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answered by Kallan 7
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I can't really answer that question. See, I never really looked for my God. He came looking for me.
2007-06-22 02:11:52
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answered by Maria C 2
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