Why did you accept/reject Christianity?

Post by **otseng** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:23 am

Why did you accept Christianity or why did you reject it? If you are of another belief system, why did you accept that?

This thread is only to gather individual answers and not to solicit any debate on what others have posted.

agondonter · Post by **agondonter** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:05 pm

Why did you accept Christianity or why did you reject it?

I rejected Christianity because many of the things it attributes to God are simply incongruent with my beliefs and understandings of him. More specifically those would be things like God being angry, vengeful or requiring an innocent blood sacrifice (whether animal or human) to divert the fictitious divine wrath.

If you are of another belief system, why did you accept that?

I don't espouse any particular denominational affiliation as I believe religion is a personal relationship with God and as such is different for each individual person. That being said, I credit the Urantia Book for much of my understanding of God and his creations but I accept truth wherever I find it, whether that is in the UB, the Christian Bible, the Quran or similar type books or in other sources.

Jester · Post by **Jester** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 1:53 am

McCulloch wrote:To all: this is a General Chat forum not a debate forum.

Point taken- all apologies for that.

klatu · Post by **klatu** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:58 am

I rejected historical Christianity, otherwise called 'tradition' because I cannot accept theology as a valid human intellectual endeavour. Thus as all monotheism is theological, all is human and cannot by definition be of God. And it may very well have taken humanity further from instead of closer to that very reality?

achilles12604 · Post by **achilles12604** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:34 am

I accept Christianity for several different reasons.

1) Experiences in my own life that I am unable to attribute to anything other than a "God".

2) The teachings of the gospels which each and every time I read them just seem to be so filled with truth.

3) The facts that I have uncovered which lead me to think that for me at least, it requires more faith to hold to all the doubts that are presented without explaination than for me to hold my faith which fills in the questions raised by opponents.

I think these are the main three.

klatu · Post by **klatu** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:32 am

Don't get me wrong. I am not against the idea or potential of God. And there are many inexplicable phenomena to consider. Humanity exists within whatever limitations of knowledge exist at any particular time. But the history of religion has been an almost pertetual disagreement over 'meaning' and nothing exists in human cultural development, at least in my own mind, that dignifies the moral conception of God as understood in scriptures.

Confused · Post by **Confused** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:49 am

Many people in todays worlds are set up in a complex web of circumstances that define their life long before hearing of christianity. Once we hear about it, it isn't simple to enact a change to start to live a life of christ without hurting those we love. Then we read the bible, note the contradictions, realize that our whole lives have been lived in sin based on what is written and refuse to accept that one ultimate being can put us here without a guidemap and expect us to find our way to him, while paying for our sins over and over again. We start to see that we could be hurting those we love for a simple story. We feel as if something else controls everything and that makes us nothing more than puppets. Get where I a going with this?

methylatedghosts · Post by **methylatedghosts** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:09 pm

I never liked christianity as a kid. I went to two catholic schools. The teachings and rules seemed so inconsistent, and I felt so claustrophobic. I knew I had to get out, and so, ever since then, I have felt alot more free

achilles12604 · Post by **achilles12604** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 11:10 pm

methylatedghosts wrote:I never liked christianity as a kid. I went to two catholic schools. The teachings and rules seemed so inconsistent, and I felt so claustrophobic. I knew I had to get out, and so, ever since then, I have felt alot more free

And you have been too.

methylatedghosts · Post by **methylatedghosts** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:53 am

achilles12604 wrote:And you have been too.

Sorry, it's kinda late here - 1:00am. What are you trying to say

Okieshowedem · Post by **Okieshowedem** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:34 pm

Having spent 47 years as a Bible Believing "Born Again"" Baptist my religion could not hold up to the examining of the Scriptures, and what I was taught by this well known Christian religion.

First and foremost the Sabbath.

If your preacher can't count to seven, odds are he is not leading you to the Kingdom that all the Hebrew prophets and apostles of the Hebrew Messiah taught.

If the 10 Commandments are Commandments and not suggestions you may want to find someone that can tell you what the forth Commandment says.

Search for yourself, see who changed the Sabbath and why.

If the religion you follow claims authority to change the Scriptures you may want to see what the Scriptures say about those who change them, and those who follow the ones that do the changing, Read Revelations 22:18-19.

This is the same warning found in Deuteronomy 4:2.

The sad thing is that the protestants are as guilty as the Catholics for excepting this lie.

As a Baptist I was taught that we as Baptist were not protestant.

We could trace our teaching back to Yahchanan the Immerser or as they call him John the Baptist.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then my friend it is a duck!

Okieshowedem

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