If so, what made you change your mind?
I was raised in a church didn't believe a word of it then when I actually studied the bible for myself it was almost completely different from what my church was telling me so I then decided to become a christian.
2007-09-20 12:57:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes. I was not raised with any church or religion experience at all and was an atheist for 4 or 5 years.
What caused me to come to Christ was a very long process of discovering that my life was not turning out as I had supposed it would and it amounted to lots of things happening that non-believers would call coincidences but were all related to demonstrating that God exists. The thing that put me over the top was when I joined a church and still was not sure about Christ, but then went to a class given by the Pastor on the beliefs of the church and had an opportunity to learn about God's plan and the historical Christ. It was all sewed up when he said either Christ was who he claimed to be or he was the most vile, cruel and misguided person in the world because he made the outlandish claim to be the Son of God.
2007-09-20 13:09:04 · answer #1 · answered by William D 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am, and I will never go back.
I was raised without any religious influence. I didn't even know what a Jew or christian, or anything was (sadly) until I was like 14. After learning about a god, I thought that was just ridiculous. There was absolutely no way there could be a benevolent, omnipotent god.
Later, I began to have some spiritual type occurrences happen in my life which led me to Wicca. It seemed like there was more to the story than what Wicca had to offer. I started studying all the larger religions, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hindu...and eventually came to Christianity. I am very happy with it.
2007-09-20 13:07:35 · answer #2 · answered by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was in my mid-twenties when it dawned on me that God existed. I did not become a Christian for another 2-3 years. My father claimed to be an atheist. My mother was an Episcopalian and took me to church between the ages of about 5-12, but not on a weekly basis. I don't remember learning anything about Jesus during that time.
2007-09-20 13:04:51 · answer #3 · answered by Cee T 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am neither. I have found that you do not need religion to believe in God or Jesus. The church spends our life times, when we are, young to old, trying to convince us that we need it to have Christ in out lives. This is why so many religions spew this garbage that their religion is the only religion. I do not find the God I believe in supporting such hogwash. My church I attended as a young lad, believed only our pastor could work through God. Our pastor told me that my experiences I thought I had with God was all in my head and he was the only one who (like I said) worked through God. Who does he think he is???? My point? It is my humble opinion/contention that many angry atheist are not really atheist but in fact very angry ex-church types who are mad at their religion and yes, God. This is why they are passionate just like us religious types when they state they are atheist just in the opaset direction.
To prove my point, take a week or two and then ask this question here at Yahoo answers: "If you are an atheist, then what do you believe in"? A true atheist believes in nothing, nada, no tooth fiery, absolutely nothing, as it is properly defined in Webster’s Dictionary. Yet you will not believe the number of people that will write the answer to your question stating that they believe in something. Be it Witchcraft, Buda, Mother Nature or what ever. Why? Because we all want to believe in something and that is because it is in our nature and past roots to believe. And that my friend is where you are at right now.
2007-09-20 18:06:57 · answer #4 · answered by Shellback 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was raised in a Catholic home, and didn't really believe any of it. I then was very deep in the metaphysical and new age beliefs, until the Lord Jesus Christ knocked, and I answered. I had never really picked up a Bible in my life, which seems to be the case with most Catholics it appears. Now, I cannot get enough of His Word. It feeds my soul.
2007-09-20 13:03:45 · answer #5 · answered by lovinghelpertojoe 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What the church says only supplements the horrors of the bible itself, not to mention its irrelevance despite everyone's millenia long insistence upon it. I don't care for any of it, at all, and I never have.
2007-09-20 13:04:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It happens but is vastly rarer than the other direction. I almost never hear anyone ever saying they chose Christianity by reading the bible. Pretty much anyone who reads the bible usually gets away from Christianity.
2007-09-20 13:03:22 · answer #7 · answered by meissen97 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
All Christians are ex-atheists. Babies don't believe in gods.
2007-09-20 13:04:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was Christian and I am now atheist...b/c I realized all the bs they were telling me
2007-09-20 16:08:51 · answer #9 · answered by ♥Jara-Lee♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the two atheism and a watered down extra liberal version of Islam that could make middle easterner extremist muslims squirm. through the way i comprehend an ex-muslim agnostic in my opinion so as that they are deconverting as properly. @Cool Fundamentalist - The Lion of the East have you ever not been staring on the information for tha previous oooh say one hundred thousand years!!! the middle east is predominantly muslim and intensely very very violent. @A Prisoner in this international quit victimizing your self, thats so 10 years in the past. No ones oppressing you, recover from it. you're purely enjoying the sympathy card to get extra converts. human beings like those 2 menioned above are people who supply the undesirable photograph to islam, its not basically terrorists. its them >___<
2016-10-19 06:21:06 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋