have you ever believed the truth? have you ever tasted the heavenly gift and then decided to fall away or have you never believed the truth. dont get offended by me saying truth cause i know alot of you have read the bible and know that's how it is said. please no rude anwers, just wanna know if you believed and fell away or if you never believed.
2007-09-18 04:48:20 · 24 answers · asked by warrior*in*the*making 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
(evolved) theres nothing pervy bout the "heavenly gift" its cleansing, energizing, peaceful, joyous, its everything the world dont have !
2007-09-18 06:42:19 · update #1
It isn't truth.
I grew up christian, 3 times a week.
edit - know what it really is? Condemnation, judgment, ostracized and outcast by "the group" until the burden is so great, you nearly explode with guilt. Then, by laying yourself open before "the group" and telling all your perceived flaws, that weight of guilt caused by "the group" is lifted. And people confuse that for tasting the heavenly gift. When, in reality, there was nothing wrong with them in the first place.
2007-09-18 04:53:11 · answer #1 · answered by Armless Joe, Bipedal Foe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible and other 'holy scriptures' are mere assertion, presenting no convincing evidence to support their wild and irrational claims - but plenty of threats to those who suspect the real truth, namely that it's all nonsense.
No one can prove gods and devils don't exist, either, but it comes down to probabilities. The 'improbability' of evolution pales to nothing when compared to the likelihood that a being exists capable of creating an entire universe - all without needing to be created by some other even more super-duper being, which must have needed its own super-ultra-duper creator, and so on ad infinitum and nauseam.
Get out more and smell the flowers: they really do exist and demand nothing in the way of worship or dogma.
2007-09-18 12:04:08 · answer #2 · answered by hznfrst 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I currently believe the truth, and the truth is that there is no magical father figure floating around in the sky and watching everything we do like he's Santa.
But to answer the question as you meant to ask it, I was raised christian. Even as I child I had a tough time believing in the outlandish claims of the religion. By the time I reached my teens I abandoned it. I learned to think for my self. I learned to make my own desisions. Religion is for those to weak to think for them selves.
2007-09-20 02:36:30 · answer #3 · answered by b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your religion and the bible are not "the truth".
Yes, my family was catholic and I was raised as one till I turned 15: baptized, 1st communion, etc...... Luckily I read and got to know better than the BS they had tried to instill in me. So I was a believer once, but learned enough things to get rid of all those lies and am a happy atheist now.
2007-09-18 12:09:52 · answer #4 · answered by Lprod 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is a book of superstition, myth, bigotry, contradiction, innacuracy and many many lies.
If you really want to find the truth at least make an effort to read an evidence-based book on the subject. There are loads of them.
However, I won't list them because it is obvious that you are unable to explore and question for yourself having been spoon-fed the Bible all your life.
2007-09-18 12:05:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to believe. Then I started reading and learning and growing and I came to understand that what I was experiencing was a product of my mind. How cool was that?!! I had a brain that was capable of producing feelings of peace, love, contentment and safety that I could obtain /just by talking to myself/! I meditated lots, and continued to learn, and began to really study the bible as well as several other religious texts. I came to realize that they were all very similar to the books of ancient myths I read when I should have been paying attention in school. By the time I was 12 or so I think I could safely say that I didn't believe in god anymore. All I'd read and learned led me to conclude that there just wasn't any real evidence, and by that point I'd figured out that 'having faith' really meant 'telling yourself something over and over until you believe its true'. My parents were none too pleased with my newfound knowledge, but the only argument they could offer for it was "you live in our house, you believe in our god", which wasn't very convincing. By the time I was 18 and moved out of their house, I'd been to far too many church services, youth groups, bible studies and had plenty of opportunity to see with clear eyes what really goes on.
2007-09-18 12:04:53 · answer #6 · answered by nobody important 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It never made sense to me, ever. I can't remember a time when I ever believed in a sky fairy.
I did have a distrinct idea of what the 'heavenly gift' was, though, and its involvement with Mary's pregnancy. :-)
2007-09-18 11:57:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tried to believe once. Found no evidence. Doctrines were dogmatic. Questions were never answered. The only thing I found was a heirarchy of individuals espousing belief in order to promote and secure their own power positions.
2007-09-18 11:54:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believed. I was indoctrined from a young age (before I even remember) to go to church, to read the bible, to believe in god. The more I learned, the more I started to doubt and I finally allowed myself to say out loud "this is a load of BS". So did I ever *really* believe? Yes. Then I grew out of it.
2007-09-18 11:53:50 · answer #9 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't call the bible truth. Reading it led me to this conclusion. I was a believer before thoroughly examining it objectively.
2007-09-18 11:53:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋