EarthScienceguy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 12:30 pm
This is not what you said you believed because of:
• testimonial evidence of the Bible
• my personal religious experience
• the universe seemed wonderous, intricate, complicated
• spoked in Heavenly languages when they spoked in tongues
Sir these:
"testimonial evidence of the Bible; my personal religious experience; the universe seemed wonderous; intricate; complicated; fellow Church members spoked in tongues;" were the reasons for believing in God(Yahweh-Jesus).
One cannot be a Christian and not believe also he is a sinner and needs to repent. That is a key doctrine point.
EarthScienceguy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 12:30 pm
I understand the type of Church you were in. There seems to be a lot of people from that type of Church on this forum that say they do not believe in the Bible anymore.
I was in a normal Christian Church sir. Where believers and followers of Christ gather to have communion with their God. Where they sing, pray and listen to Bible being preached.
EarthScienceguy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 12:30 pm
Why did you believe you were a sinner?
Because I was a Christian and read the Bible.
It is a claim found in the Bible.
EarthScienceguy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 12:30 pm
Narrow is the road that leads to life and few will find it. It is narrow because it is a hard road to travel. Most of the time God puts trials in your life, not prosperity.
Yes I believed that claim too.
It was often preached in the Church too.
EarthScienceguy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 12:30 pm
When you become a Christian you can rest assured that trouble is coming your way. You may ask why would anyone become a Christian? The answer is the same for all Christians the weight of sin is heavier than anything in this world. That is the cost you are counting. Is the weight of the sin that must be carried heavier than any trouble in this world.
Evidently, for you, the answer was no. The weight of sin was not heavier than the weight of this world.
I did not believed anymore because I like to “sin” sir.
I simply expanded my knowledge of the world, learned logic and philosophy, science, historicity of the bible.
I simply became unconvinced. I did not choose this.
I went from YEC to OEC. Then from OEC to rejecting the Old Testament mostly. And then I gave up on the New Testament and Christianity after my knowledge concerning the gospels and aspects of our reality increased.
In the process as I was developing a skeptical, scientific way of thinking, a logical way of looking at things I gave up other beliefs too(ghosts, Strigois, the Greys, conspiracies and so one).