I realize it could be argued that everyone is technically an atheist at birth, but I mean a person who has reached an age of adult reasoning while being an atheist and then converted from atheism to Christianity. I'm not referring to a newborn baby before it is indoctrinated.
2007-09-11 12:54:56 · 21 answers · asked by Fish Stick Jesus 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Honestly, if I had some miraculous NDE or saw a miracle or the like, I would consider believing in God just in case. But these things always leave no evidence behind, which is a little suspicious and would lead me to believe that it was all in my head.
2007-09-11 13:00:33 · answer #1 · answered by robert 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The only Atheist I know who converted to Christianity is the Actress Jane Fonda.
There also was a High Priest in the Satanic Church that became a Born Again Christian in the 1980s. That person became a Evangelist, because he knew what he was saved from. Sometimes God will save a person that everyone else thought was unsaveable. This shows that all things are possible with God.
2007-09-11 13:02:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Has it ever happened? It happens all the time and it happens both ways. There are tons of books by Christians who were atheist in adulthood, even those who were atheist and have Ph.D's in philosophy, history, science, etc. And the same is true the other way, that there were Christians who became atheist when they became an adult.
We are not born atheist. I can't believe the ignorance when people say that. I am not saying that we are born Christians either. We are born neutral in regards to such matters because we do not have the cognitive ability to have a conclusion on such matters. And both atheism and theism are cognitive beliefs.
2007-09-11 13:00:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it has happened, and it DOES happen. There are people on here who were raised in atheist homes (or shall we say, to use YOUR term, indoctrinated with no religion) who became Christians later on in life.
I have a friend whose parents are STILL atheists. He is the only Christian, apart from his wife, in his entire immediate family. He was an atheist until he was thirty.
I have another friend whose parents WERE atheists (his mother has since become a Christian, at the YOUNG age of fifty-seven), and he became a Christian at the age of thirty-three.
My husband is a non-religious theist. His mother is what I call an apathetic atheist. My husband didn't start believing in God until about a few months ago (he had been an atheist his entire life, though he did attend church for a few months as a teenager). He turns twenty-nine next week.
My dad was raised by an alcoholic and atheist mother, and his father was agnostic (he died when my dad was thirteen). My dad's brother died as a result of alcoholism almost twenty years ago. He was an atheist. My dad's sister died of a stroke twelve years ago. She was heavily into the occult. My dad became a Christian when he was in his late thirties, right around the time that my mom recommitted to Christ.
I have a friend who was born in India to a Hindu family (his family is STILL Hindu), and raised in Afghanistan. He became a Christian about four years ago. He's in his forties/early fifties.
Do you need more examples?
Edit: Oh, and I became a Christian for the first time in my life ten months ago, when I was twenty-five. I had been a skeptic for almost my whole life, since I was five. I was that kid in Sunday school asking how Noah fit all the different animals onto the ark, and what he fed them. Yeah, they didn't like me.
2007-09-11 13:19:42 · answer #4 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I know of a couple. I am not one of those, however... I did go through an Agnostic phase where I tired of religion in general and just ignored the whole thing. I was "Christian" for a few years (I'm sure many Christians would say that's impossible... but that only shows me they don't know me)... but overall I was and am Pagan. But a good friend of mine from high school was a hardcore Atheist and later converted to Christianity ( one of whom refuses to have anything to do with Non-Christians ). So, yes, it does happen... I think it totally depends on the individual and their experiences and how they perceive them. Life is, after all, relative to the experiences the individual has and how it pertains to their life. We can't claim relativism and then turn around and say something is Absolute.
2007-09-11 13:03:01 · answer #5 · answered by River 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i improve right into a skeptic my finished life until eventually a sprint under a year in the past. even nevertheless a pair years purely before that, I had began to have faith, I nonetheless had somewhat some unresolved questions. What ultimately did it for me? Jesus. He confident me so thoroughly. It wasn't the books I study (nevertheless there have been many), it wasn't the HOURS upon HOURS I spent in contemplation, and it wasn't even the miracles I observed. It improve into Jesus. He gave me adequate info so as that I understood that God exists, and He loves us. and that's exactly what I were searching for all my life, whether i did no longer are conscious of it. I wasn't fairly an "atheist" my finished life (purely area of it), yet i improve into very a lot a skeptic.
2016-10-04 09:58:00 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This does happen and I've seen it, just like I've seen former Christians who had a very bad experience with their faith, usually through a fundamentalist minister or such and have come to believe there is no God. So it happens both ways.
The son of celebrated athiest, the late Madelyn Murray O'Hair actuallt became a minister and stil is, though he was raised an athiest.
2007-09-11 13:04:00 · answer #7 · answered by winfielder74 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I've been an atheist for more than 20 years, and I'm on the edge of a religious conversion, though not Christianity. It does happen.
2007-09-11 12:59:24 · answer #8 · answered by Wanderer 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure if I qualified as an atheist or agnostic - probably the latter. Still, I became Christian at age 25, which I think does qualify as an age of reason.
2007-09-11 12:58:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure it must have happened - an atheist suddenly becoming frightened at the thought of death and its finality.
I would suggest though that many more theists become atheist than vice versa.
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I sure atheist >> Xian happens more frequently in USA cos the Kultcha is all Xian and if you're not one you don't get on.
A USian atheist would have to be as courageous as a Xian Iraqi.
2007-09-11 13:28:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋