2007-11-19 05:46:05 · 20 answers · asked by Warren Ferguson 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am a Christian, but I did a five year stint as agnostic then atheist before becoming theist again.
What led to those years was the discovery that the Bible contains contradictions and errors and that the only reason we thought it was infallible was that the early church apparently thought so. Evangelicals rely solely on scripture, so once that's gone I had no basis for keeping that faith even though I had experienced God.
2007-11-19 05:52:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Several things.
First would have happened a long time ago when I moved to a new town. No church would accept me because I showed up without my entire family. They constantly told me that I could stay for the day, but don't come again unless I have my family in tow.
Second would be the attitudes of other christians I have met. They are not people who I want to be associated with and if I had to live by their practices and rules, I wanted no part of it. Add that to the cruel way I was treated because I wasn't welcome in a local church...no thank you.
Third, I finally found someone to talk to and though they are atheist, did not try to pressure me. Accepted me for the person I am, and gave me some very good, logical reasons whey they did not believe in a god of any sort and especially did not like the story of the christian god.
Fourth was my own doing.
I started to use the internet and other resources to look for answers that had been festering inside of me for years. By the time I concluded my research, I believed that any god is really just story.
I like some of the stories and I don't like some of the stories, but now I know them to be just that.
That is what lead me out of the dark and into the light.
2007-11-19 05:57:35 · answer #2 · answered by Star 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I saw the "Light" as they say. And I guess if you want to call it "backsliding" to a religion that was around long before Christianity. I have never felt more spiritual than I do today!
2007-11-19 05:55:54 · answer #3 · answered by MotherB 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all you start off with a false premise. It isn't backsliding in the least but a higher level of awareness. If you have honestly read the bible in its entirety you would or should realize that the whole thing is an incongruous piece of literature. In one verse it states that God is all loving and merciful in another verse God is wiping mankind out with floods and plagues.
2007-11-19 06:01:30 · answer #4 · answered by TSIRHC 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, Im not a former Christian but I am a former Muslim. For me it was whenever I started to make the connection between religion and cult. As I got older I questioned Islam, and probed into its scriptures........ To sum it up it was just illogical.
2007-11-19 05:53:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Finally I got overwhelmed with the spelling and grammar problems endemic to the Christian faith. Some could not distinguish the homonyms led and lead, for example. In linguistic disgust at co-religionists who were literalistically textually-based and yet near functionally illiterate, I fled to a nonscriptural but orthographically enlightened religion.
2007-11-19 05:52:27 · answer #6 · answered by snowbaal 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Instead of the words "backsliding or apostasy", I'd select and replace with "eyeopening or understanding".
Get the picture?
2007-11-19 05:51:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
As I have mentioned before, there is no such thing as a "former Christian". If you were adopted into the family, you will always be in the family. The adopting was done by God and it is kept by God's power. Persons have no power to "save themselves" or to undo the contract which was signed when a person accepted Jesus' payment for their sin debt.
Praise God my salvation does not depend on me.
All of this said, it is entirely possible that a person never fully submits to Jesus as Lord, God and Savior. If this is the case, they never were in the family. However, all are welcome! Ask me if you wish to know more.
2007-11-19 06:21:10 · answer #8 · answered by δοῦλος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Backsliding? That's a dumb comment.
Probably the whole thing about it not making any sense. Why would an all knowing creator need to sacrifice his son who is himself to forgive himself?
2007-11-19 06:04:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The lack of any actual gods.
There is just too much evidence that all the gods that people believe exist are just old superstitions. If you look into human nature, you see a strong tendency to make up and strongly believe in superstitions, myths, and urban legends. Religion shows all of the hallmarks of be just superstition.
And there is really no evidence of any actual gods existing.
Sorry, but reality just seems to make much more sense without the god belief. Religion really has nothing to offer.
2007-11-19 05:50:09 · answer #10 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋