do you still have faith in the religion you were brought up in?

Question

and why

Answer 1

No.

I never did, really. I was brought up as a Jehovah's witness, and even at a young age I could see logical flaws in the theology, and was disturbed by the morality, or lack of it, inherent in the bible. Throughout my childhood and adolescence I went through the motions to keep my mother happy. Eventually, I could no longer suppress my disgust with the cult, and publicly disassociated myself.

Answer 2

No. I was raised in an extremely liberal church which paid lip service to the Bible but didn't really follow it.

They claimed to be Christian but as I got older and read the Bible for myself I could see that they were not.

I heard the real Gospel during high school when a guest speaker was brought in to speak at a youth retreat when the originally scheduled speaker could not get there due to a snow storm.

The original speaker was a seminary student from the same seminary where the senior pastor of our church was from.

The guest speaker was a graduate of Wheaton College, the same college where Billy Graham graduated from, the same school where he met his wife, Ruth.

The name of that guest speaker was Bill Gothard.

http://billgothard.com

Today I'm part of a Bible believing, non denominational church, although some would say an "inter-denominational" church.

Pastor Art

Answer 3

Dear Maraesa1000,

I still have faith in the God I learned about in the church I grew up in however I left the denomination I was brought up in.

I didn't so much reject the denomination I was brought up in as I wanted to draw nearer to my heavenly Father after I read the Bible from cover-to-cover.

I now attend a non-denominational Bible believing church.

How about you?

For His glory,
JOYfilled

Answer 4

I wasn't brought up in any faith, my parents never took us to church or anything. I became a Christian at the age of 28 when I met Jesus personally.

Answer 5

no. i was raised a christian but saw hrough the whole charade by the age of 11 or 12, and have been a true atheist since the age of 15. I only think of religion when I am on here. I like to see what peope are going through, especially as it finally dawns on them that they don't need god.

Answer 6

My faith is in God, Jesus, the Holy Ghost. By what the Bible says. My mom took us to church to a couple of years. A neighbor then took me to theirs. When I went to visit my godmother, while in collage. I was shocked that my mother had lied to us all about what religion we were.
I keep reading my Bible every day. God is the most important. Jesus did not come here to start a new religion; but to fix the Jewish one, Matthew 5:17-20.

Answer 7

I was educated and raised in the Roman Catholic Faith. Like many, I took it for granted and fell away from it. However God had other ideas and I came back and have remained in the Church with a firmer faith.
Dei Gratias

Answer 8

If you mean do I still attend the Salvation Army (my religion), then no I don't. I don't believe you have attend church every sunday to be a good Christian. As to their teachings then yes. Except not having sex before marriage and Gambling (I go to bingo every now and then).

Answer 9

Nope. I was raised in the Jehovah's Witness cult, which my parents still belong to. However, I have received "new light" (inside joke all ex-JWs will get) and have been a non-denominational born-again Christian for most of my adult life.

Answer 10

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."
-Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 1794