for those who are not "Christians" anymore? why aren't you?

Question

What happened?
Do you think perhaps you were talked into it and were never "born again?" Born again is when the heart is fertile and prepared to receive Christ and meets with the seed of God's word, producing a child of God (born again experience) that is so different from being talked into it intellectually. A heart crying out for a saviour that meets with the truth of Gods word produced a born again Christian. If you have not had this experience should you pray for that and not give up?

I think if you were "talked into" being a Christian you can be "talked out of it" fairly easily. A true experience with Christ himself cannot be denied.

Do you ever long for that personal experience?

these answer make me sad, I will pray for you.

Answer 1

I was christian for 20 + years. I loved god, Jesus so much. I desired truth from Jesus more than anything in my life. I prayed and read for those 20 + years. when ever I heard the name of Jesus i was drawn to the source quite willingly (like a moth to a flame). Sin hurt me also. Repentance was always important to me. In my mind, if God sent me to Hell for all eternity for some reason I didn't know about, I would have still loved Him in Hell. After much investigation,prayer, desire to be an honest and effective witness for Jesus, seeking and above all a basic observation of the world around me, I have come to see that an All loving, powerfull and wise God is inconsistent with christian doctrine. I have also come to see that humans constantly strive to find such truth as I did myself. And so I have concluded that all theologies stem from the same place in a human.
Now i am Atheist

Answer 2

I was raised Catholic, had my communion and confirmation, went to CCD and Church on Sundays. I also attended mass with friends who were Presbyterians, Baptists and Lutherans. Then I spent 2 years with born again Christians. That was an experience!

I don't consider myself Christian anymore because I can not (in good conscience) adhere to everything in the New Testament.

I believe Jesus was a real person and I also believe he REALLY did some amazing things. But I can't call myself a Christian because in my heart, I don't know if I can believe:

In heaven and hell.
All non-Christians go to hell.
The "end times" and the second coming.
And others...

I believe the New Testament is a great book. EVERYONE should take the time to read it. But I can't take it literally.

Answer 3

Because I would rather go to hell with the people I love than to go to heaven and be with a god that created that hell in the first place. In other words, I find your god to be evil and not worthy of my worship. I will not bow down.

And no, I wasn't talked into being a Christian, I feverishly believed it and did at one time serve your lord. Experienced the whole "born again" thing. And I wasn't "talked out of it" either, its something I came to my own conclusion when I was studying the bible. I realized that if it all were true I could not in good conscience serve a god that would send people to hell.

Answer 4

I was "born again" and baptized twice.

Jerry Falwell in the early 70's was when I first realized that some Christians were morons.

As the years went by I continued to see the hate and bigotry that is at the core of Christianity.

The final straw was an Assembly of God church. I saw those hate filled fanatics rolling on the floor speaking in gibberish while the pastor preached bigotry from the pulpit.

I also saw those nut jobs outside of Terry Schivo's hospice and it infuriated me that they denied this woman the right to die peacefully. Her husband did the right thing.


I started reading about spiritualism and the gnostic gospels for a few years before I actually embraced them as truth.

Answer 5

I don't know why I'm even answering a question so full of nonsensical mysticism that the chances of me reaching you in any way is practically nil.

None of those things happen to anyone, ever. If someone desperately afraid, with a dependent personality, and intellectually retarded from years of irrational statements heard from his family and media, hears that kind of thing over and over again, he just might start convincing himself he did feel something like that one time in an instance of self-abasement and that now he has a connection to a parental figure who has absolved him from all responsibility in life. Wouldn't that feel great! Except it's brainwashing leading to self-delusion and nothing more.

You could imagine yourself feeling all sorts of weird things and it doesn't mean anything. What if you interpreted a heart attack as Jesus entering your heart and taking you to heaven. So you don't seek medical treatment, you just wait for Jesus to finish and assume the pain is necessary to cross over to the kingdom of heaven. We don't need real doctors anymore because Jesus is the cause of all the little and big pains we have, which are a step toward heaven. You want to believe that?

Answer 6

Because when I went to church every one was a total hypocrite. The were going to church to feel better about them self's for what they had done to others the week before. When I would go to work the owner was a born again Christian on Sundays and raped his customers the rest of the week. I quit because of that. Every business transaction I have had with a religious person Has been a bad experience.

Answer 7

The Christian church is a farce, more bent on telling others what to do than leading by example. I realized that if Jesus had lived, we know almost nothing about him based on the contradicting gospels and the gaps in his story. We have no idea IF he wanted all this fuss at all, and if he did wish to be worshiped, I sure cannot imagine a simple carpenter from a poor family getting off on all that pomp -- a waste of money that could be doing good.

Never had an "experience" and strongly suspect those who have are deluding themselves.

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Answer 8

Many years of reseach in ancient history and religion brought me to the conclusion that it`s all a glorious hoax. A con to control and to get rich quick.
I have read the ancient manuscripts and they don`t uphold the bible. I have seen the grave of Jesus and he was 84 when he died.
With all the evidence I have seen I would be a total fool to beleive in Jesus being god or that the christians even follow what Jesus actually preached.
Beside the fact that Jesus never even mentioned non jews..!!

Answer 9

i do no longer comprehend that lots with reference to the inquisitions - different than it exchange into total evil. (as a Christian it makes me disillusioned to comprehend that persons might desire to be so deceived with reference to the obtrusive teachings of their very own faith, and for this reason all the greater careful) i think of the element is that any one may be brainwashed into doing some thing that's referred to as a contravention of their faith - notably in a society the place no one might desire to study and write, the place the persons have been ravenous, and the place each thing exchange into owned by utilizing the the Aristocracy. maximum 'crusaders' have been peasants, and there exchange into even a newborn's campaign. it extremely is to no longer say that they weren't trouble-free believers, yet those 'directing' the action have been normally manipulating skill brokers - many from the ruling instructions whose land exchange into no longer in a position to help the super numbers of peasants residing there. people are complicated and those with great skill normally very much corrupted. comparable ingredient is taking place at present in Islam. Lenin used the comparable concepts to learn administration of Russia - tell the persons with reference to the equality of all, and then turn them against one yet another (so as that they weren't equivalent after all) comparable ingredient has occurred in lots of places in historic previous - no longer in basic terms Christians. efficient human beings will continually take income of the deprived and manage them to end their targets.

Answer 10

I was born again. I had a personal experience with the release from my error.

Now I know that it, just like every 'born again' experience, was nothing more than a neurological misfiring. In essence, I hallucinated, same as you (if you claim to have had this experience).

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Pray all you like, it won't change the fact you and I had an emotional hallucination based on our beliefs.

The only difference is that I recognize it for what it is, and you, like a schizophrenic, have accepted your hallucinations as the truth.