What caused your unbelief? Did you always feel this way? Did a Christian turn you away from God?

Question

You know, Jesus will never leave or forsake you. He is waiting for you with open arms. Don't deny him.

Answer 1

Try to remember, God does not want everybody. He said so. He disincluded people on purpose according to the Bible. He spoke in ways so that they would not understand. He caused people to walk away from him on purpose. He told us why he spoke in parables. His Apostle Paul wrote an entire chapter on it ( Romans 9). He forsook entire peoples throughout the Old Testament. He eliminated entire cultures from the face of the Earth. He promised an eternity without Him. He made divisions between those who would be His people and those who would not be His people.

The typical line that God loves everyone is simply not true. When you look into John 3:16, 'Kosmos' the word translated as 'world' does not mean 'Everyone in the World'. According to Strong's Concordance it meant many things, but specifically the use of the word 'world' means 'of believer's only'. So those who will be believers are those referred to in John 3:16 and 17.

So please, check it out for yourself and don't lean on your own understanding. Traditional use of John 3:16 is not in line with the rest of the Bible. So therefore tradition is once again, making void the world of God. Check it out, and lean on the Holy Spirit to guide you to truth. It is against man's nature to go God's way. God makes it possible for us to go His way. He does not do that for just anyone - only those who He wants get that.

Answer 2

1. My unbelief was caused by not agreeing with so many things I was being taught in Church. And seeing firsthand how hypocritical the "Christians" (in my life) were.
2. Since that time, yes, I always felt that way. With the exception, that, as I got older, I realized there were more "good" Christians.
3. I guess you could say that. But not entirely. Mostly it was myself, questioning things, and searching for what made sense for ME.
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Answer 3

I wouldn't call it "unbelief" for me, as I am still spiritual. But the more I studied different religions, a majority of it being various Christian sects, the more I realized that most religions attempted to define God/s. That's when I accepted the view that if God does exist, he would be beyond our comprehension. The idea of religion seemed too confining to me. So while I don't accept God the way different religions define him, I find myself unable to deny the possibility of his existence.

As Gandhi once said, "God has no religion"

Answer 4

Mean Christians, hypocrites, racists, sexists, anti-gay and TV Evangelists, religious criminals, etc, etc. turned me away from Christian churches. Jesus might have been okay but look what Christians do in his name?

I prefer the Goddess and the Old Religion. After all, Christianity chose our high holidays to put Christmas and Easter on as they knew they could not draw enough support from the new christians who still revered the Goddess.
Do some research on Yule and Winter Solstice.

Answer 5

I'd never heard of God until mum sent me to Sunday School when I was four. Luckily, even at that age, I was smart enough to realise that religion was based on a myth.

I can still remember looking into the teacher's eyes as she told us yet another miracle story. She probably though I was paying rapt attention, but I was just trying to figure out if she really believed this rubbish - or did adults just tell lies to kids as a matter of course.

Answer 6

The profound lack of evidence to support the existence of your god (or any god) made me turn away from christianity (and other religions too).

I don't deny anyone. However, I will not accept anything on faith alone. Show me the evidence.

Answer 7

You give Christians far too much credit. The incoherent ravings of an individualwill not affect my lifeview. No, what "turned" me away was the realization that the predominant Christian concept of "God" makes no sense.

Answer 8

Not a specific one. Just Christians as a sort of general gestalt. Jesus, to my mind, would never want to associate with some of the people who worship in his name.

Beyond that, it's just a case of applying a bit of common sense to world around me, and also to the teachings of religion. One comes up woefully lacking.

Answer 9

In easy of the scriptures you quoted, how do you clarify the myth of the prodigal son in Luke financial disaster 15? As for the grafting in of the Gentiles, that has to do with the Gentiles who have self belief and stick to Jesus Christ becoming to be accompanied into the kin of God of which God chosen the Jewish human beings. for this reason, Gentiles might desire to no longer be Jewish except they are grafted into the basis that's Jesus Christ (a Jew). yet another observe for the grafting in is adoption.

Answer 10

"You know, Jesus will never leave or forsake you. He is waiting for you with open arms. Don't deny him."

Well, he's dead, so I'm pretty sure he's not going to forsake me. But it makes that "waiting with open arms" thing very unattractive.

Doesn't honesty mean anything to you people? Don't you care at all about the truth?