"I'm a Former Christian"

Many claim to have been Christians and now claim to have ceased practicing Christianity for whatever reason. Where this may be their experience, the truth is they were never true Christians. The Bible is clear that God chooses His people, sovereignly saves them, and keeps them through death and unto life with Him. These are fundamental truths to the Christian faith and cannot be changed by experience- we must properly interpret our experience based on truth.

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• gospel
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• saving
• faith
• former
• Christian
• atheism

[TheWatcherGrigori]

GAL 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

GAL 6:5 For every man shall bear his own burden.

Which one should i believe? :S

[bberchin]

Both, in proper context. I'm guessing you're crying "contradiction", but if you understood the teaching of this text you would understand there is no contradiction.

[rumble54daddyo]

OK. I was never a true christian. I believed and spouted the same tripe that YOU spout, but you -- you arrrogant little dink -- tell me that I didn't know what I knew. Or that I don't know what I know now.

Yep, you are a worm -- and unworthy. But not for the reasons you spew. Think I'll ever come BACK to worms like you? You dink? You insulting little worm?

I don't think that JesusGod LIKES your crapping on the Ninth Commandment. He's WATCHING you ....

[Gr8Teaist]

Condemnation is the x-tian way of belittling people or trying to keep them within the fold. I could justify anything and use the bible to do it. How about self-mutilation, killing my parents or kids, killing unbelievers, believing in talking donkeys, dragons, unicorns, women being in subjection to men, gang raping women, the list goes on-and-on. The God, who 'DOESN'T CHANGE" sure did change a great deal between the Torah and the New Testament. Seems quite fickle to me. BAH-HUM-BUG!

[TheSomnambulist06]

There is no such thing as a christ

[BiGMANJOE32]

I believe in predestination that God choses who he wants you are adopted in the family of God. God has mercy on whom he chooses

[Man4Goodwill]

I use to be christian but now I've grown up

[pbotas]

why continuing spreading lies?

stop the bullshit lies!!! we don't need to believe in hell or heaven or whatever. Live our life! Erase god from your mind, and you will meet true freedom

[ZacksEnder]

A 'TRUE' Christian can NEVER tell someone whether or not they are a 'TRUE' Christian because 'TRUE' Christians know that Christianity preaches of a PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. Even I know that and Im not a Christian. Jesus.

[JAWWDC]

As a side note, christ never said anything that is in the bible. It is a work of plagerism from older religions. There never really was a christ.

Atheists wrote the bible for political reasons. You just got brainwashed into believing it because that's the community you are in and perhaps grew up in. If you were in the middle east - you'd be a mulsim, if you were in India, you'd be a hindu, etc etc etc

[JAWWDC]

Sorry Dude, but some people are former christians. A christian is anyone that believes that jesus christ is the messiah and they whole-heartedly believe that they are going to heaven. If someone believes that - then no longer does....they are a former christian.

This is NOT people that were using a church as a club. This means people that truely believed in the bible - and then later decided it wasn't truthful.

What is funny is that you only belive in the 'bible' becuase it was given to you.

[TheEmpiricalTruth]

Wow. I must thank you for giving me a few more verses that prove to me that your book is full of it. The problem with this teaching is while you are telling your fellow christians that they must accept the book without question while hoping that people of other faiths will ignore theirs and come to yours. Incedentally your god has apparently created me specifically for damnation. I am SO glad that I don't have to believe this anymore. Have fun worshipping that tyrant.

[LoopQuantumGravity1]

Yes, there are former christians - people who accepted christ , believed the bible, got "saved" and some even spoke in "tongues" . You can find them here on YT. For example LovingDoubt. They later rejected the claims of Christianity.

BTW, quoting the bible proves nothing. Holy books are written to enforce dogma, to keep believers in line. Quoting the bible is about as convincing to me as quoting Harry Potter to prove the existence of Hogwarts.

[TR5T]

Why all the anger? If one thought they were a Christian and now finds it intolerable why be angry about it, go have fun, you've weighed up heaven and hell, found it to be silly....fine.

Why waste time being angry, you suppose yourself to be free so go be free and those who understand that they want to be a Christian just let them.