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Any specific issue for choosing to leave your faith?I chose to stop when I reached the age of reason.
When you recognized you're agnostic, did you continue to join community worship, or did you stop going? Why did you choose to either continue to attend church or stop attending church?
Any specific issue for choosing to leave your faith?I chose to stop when I reached the age of reason.
Yeah. I have difficulty believing in a God who claims to give me free will, yet demands I only worship him.Any specific issue for choosing to leave your faith?I chose to stop when I reached the age of reason.
"Right" about what, precisely? For example, most faiths teach love of others. Is that arrogance? What is wrong about loving others?What I can't figure out, though, is how anyone could be so arrogant as to believe that they're "right" and that they're the ones who've got it figured out...
Why do you consider it a demand? Isn't it more about setting priorities? What should be given first priority if not God?Yeah. I have difficulty believing in a God who claims to give me free will, yet demands I only worship him.
Would love to hear the story if ever you should be in the mood to share.I was agnostic right up until I was 15. An event happened in my life, and I've never looked back
to questioning if there is a God or not. God is good
Yup, if you truly believe in God, and God first, everything else will fall into place.Why do you consider it a demand? Isn't it more about setting priorities? What should be given first priority if not God?Yeah. I have difficulty believing in a God who claims to give me free will, yet demands I only worship him.
Yeah. I have difficulty believing in a God who claims to give me free will, yet demands I only worship him.Any specific issue for choosing to leave your faith?I chose to stop when I reached the age of reason.
Me too!!!! I don't go to His house to worship now. But when I did..and the last time I step foot in a church, He spoke to me directly. I will never forget it. Hence...God is good and I know He loves me.I was agnostic right up until I was 15. An event happened in my life, and I've never looked back
to questioning if there is a God or not. God is good
Clearly by your own stupid admission, he ain't making you do anything.Yeah. I have difficulty believing in a God who claims to give me free will, yet demands I only worship him.Any specific issue for choosing to leave your faith?I chose to stop when I reached the age of reason.
The first Commandment.Why do you consider it a demand?
He said "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment" (Matt 22:37-38).He demands no such thing.
Sadly, the preacher/pastors are as human as you and I. Not necessarily the extension of God. Sorry for you experience, GracieI stopped when the preacher said my dad was in hell and suffering for eternity for owning a bar. Nothing like judging someone for the business they owned. Daddy read the bible every night and was a devout Christian. But I soon realized that those that go to church usually are kind and meek and gentle and helpful only on Sundays. Monday thru Saturday it was more like "up yours. See ya on Sunday".
I also could not get over the fear I had when another preacher insisted I be baptised or I would be stung to death by scorpions..but never die. Just forever pain. I was about 10 years old, give or take.
Then I discovered native american ways and beliefs and THAT one called to me. They don't have a particular denomination. They mostly consider all Gods creations...God. As do I.
I had an entirely different experience. My grandfather was atheist, and when I asked about it the priest asked me, "Do you love your grandfather?" Yes, I did. He asked me if I thought I could love someone more than God did. I said, No. He told me, "As Catholics we really can't say whether someone is going to hell or someone is going to heaven. We teach the way Jesus taught, and leave the rest to our loving and merciful God. You have nothing to worry over."I stopped when the preacher said my dad was in hell and suffering for eternity for owning a bar. Nothing like judging someone for the business they owned. Daddy read the bible every night and was a devout Christian. But I soon realized that those that go to church usually are kind and meek and gentle and helpful only on Sundays. Monday thru Saturday it was more like "up yours. See ya on Sunday".
I also could not get over the fear I had when another preacher insisted I be baptised or I would be stung to death by scorpions..but never die. Just forever pain. I was about 10 years old, give or take.
Then I discovered native american ways and beliefs and THAT one called to me. They don't have a particular denomination. They mostly consider all Gods creations...God. As do I.
When you recognized you're agnostic, did you continue to join community worship, or did you stop going? Why did you choose to either continue to attend church or stop attending church?
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