Why did you turn Christian and for what reasons?
2007-07-21 12:07:02 · 8 answers · asked by catbacker 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I was an agnostic and several years ago I was just like most Atheists on this board, probably worse when it comes to mockery of Christianity (quoting Nietzsche, asking dumb questions to fundies etc).
I can't answer the question in its entirety. But It involved reading the bible with an open mind (not according to a church doctrine). It also involved a lot of personal revelation.
This statement is a major guide to why I believe in God.
"But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love."
I found this statement very insightfull.
"It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on."
Their is much truth in the bible. I don't read it like the fundamentalists. It is full of parables about the world and human nature. It speaks of a truth about people and society that is rarely spoken about or understood.
To my belief arguing over fossils is just plain silly. Whats really important is how we relate to those around us, the peace in our lives. I believe peace, goodness and nobility come from service to love. Love is the spirit of selfless generosity, compassion and self sacrafice. God is love.
2007-07-21 12:17:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Long story short, I kept an open mind. Because of that, I kept reading and looking for answers. I read anything I could get my hands on. I didn't find the answers I was looking for in science, so I looked elsewhere. After thirteen years of NOT being a Christian (preceded by eight years of being a skeptic)(and during that thirteen years I was an atheist, then agnostic, then Wiccan, then agnostic again, then an agnostic theist who missed Wicca but was studying Buddhism, lol), and studying, I became a Christian nine months ago.
Yes, that's the short story. I could get into specifics if needed or wanted.
2007-07-21 12:25:24 · answer #2 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've known a few that did it. I have to say that in those cases they were atheists for the "wrong reasons". By this I just mean that rather than looking at the evidence and arguments side by side and reaching a conclusion based on reason, they were simply angry about something such as a death in the family, genocide in the Sudan, life generally sucking, whatever. So, they were really just "atheists" to be spiteful or rebellious to their god. When life got better, or they just got a little oder, they "found jesus again".
Me, that's not going to happen short of god appearing before me in a huge sombrero. Even then I'd just accept his existence, not his religion.
2007-07-21 12:22:37 · answer #3 · answered by Chance20_m 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not an Atheist but, the realm of possibilities are endless.
2007-07-21 12:13:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a encounter with the Holy Ghost, it wasn't suppose to happen, it wasn't suppose to exist, but it happened.
2007-07-21 12:11:35 · answer #5 · answered by LaptopJesus 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Few atheists ever again accept the crap, fairy tales and folk lore stuff, sky daddy stuff, adam and eve stuff, sorry.... Education and enlightenment, bring about common sense.
2007-07-21 12:10:46 · answer #6 · answered by April 6 · 4⤊ 4⤋
Don't expect too many responses to this question.
2007-07-21 12:10:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I diddn't.
2007-07-21 12:09:58 · answer #8 · answered by Tanjo22 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋