What would you say if I told you that after I walked away from God (For 2-3 years) I joined in with many ex-Christians online and atheists, and non believers. That I found that their testimonies and reasons for leaving Christianity were very good reasons.
Here are the top reasons people leave Christianity
Number 1. Christians
Number 2. Biblical inconsistencies
Number 3. Hell theology
Number 4. Lack of miracles
Number 5. Gods character
Of course there are many other reasons people leave their beliefs, but lets stick to these 5.
In my entire history with Christianity and the church, I have never heard any plausible reasoning in defense of these problems Christianity faces today. Oh there are so called answers, but they fall totally flat under careful scrutiny.
So how does one give a reasoned and sound answer to these things that make people leave God.
Here are the top reasons people leave Christianity
Number 1. Christians
Number 2. Biblical inconsistencies
Number 3. Hell theology
Number 4. Lack of miracles
Number 5. Gods character
Of course there are many other reasons people leave their beliefs, but lets stick to these 5.
In my entire history with Christianity and the church, I have never heard any plausible reasoning in defense of these problems Christianity faces today. Oh there are so called answers, but they fall totally flat under careful scrutiny.
So how does one give a reasoned and sound answer to these things that make people leave God.
Misled people does not make the Creator less or more true. Because my neighbor is a liar do I then think we are alone in the universe?
Mat 7:21-23, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Master, Master,’ shall enter into the Kingdom of the heavens, but he who is doing the desire of My Father in the heavens. Many shall say to Me in that day, ‘Master, Master, have we not prophesied in Your Name, and cast out demons in Your Name, and done many mighty works in Your Name?’ And then I shall declare to them, ‘I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness!’”
Matt 7:13-14, "Enter in through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broadis the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who go that way. Because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way which leads to life, and few there are who find it."
Mat 7:15-20, “But beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are savage wolves. By their fruits you shall know them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles? So every good tree yields good fruit, but a rotten tree yields wicked fruit. A good tree is unable to yield wicked fruit, and a rotten tree to yield good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, by their fruits you shall know them.”
Psalms 116:9-13, “I shall walk before יהוה in the land of the living. I have believed, for I speak; I have been greatly afflicted. I said in my haste, “All men are liars. What shall I return to יהוה? All His bounties are upon me. I lift up the cup of deliverance, And call upon the Name of יהוה.”
Number 2. Biblical inconsistencies
Mistranslations, added verses and tradition have led many intellectual types to think the Word is unreliable. To him who seeks will find, if one really cares to know they will search deeper than a surface level to find if it is true or not. Those who dont really care will listen to false teachers and be led astray easily.
Number 3. Hell theology
Learning the meaning of the original language showsDante's Inferno and the like to be fiction.
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Malachi 4:1-6, "4:1, "“For look, the day shall come, burning like a furnace, and all the proud, and every wrongdoer shall be stubble. And the day that shall come shall burn them up,” said [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]of hosts, “which leaves to them neither root nor branch."4:2, "“But to you who fear My Name the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings. And you shall go out and leap for joy like calves from the stall."4:3, "“And you shall trample the wrongdoers, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I do this,” said [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]of hosts."4:4, "“Remember the Torah of Mosheh, My servant, which I commanded him in Ḥorĕḇ for all Yisra’yl – laws and right-rulings."4:5, "“See, I am sending you Ěliyah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]."4:6, "“And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with utter destruction.”[/FONT]
Number 4. Lack of miracles
Maybe some have seen them, maybe some have not seen them, maybe some have seen them and do the Stevie Wonder...
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Matthew 13:14-17, “And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is completely filled, which says, ‘Hearing you shall hear and by no means understand, and seeing you shall see and by no means perceive, for the heart of this people has become thickened, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart, and turn back, and I heal them. (Isa 6:9-10) “And blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear, for truly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous ones longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Hosea 12:10, “And I have spoken to the prophets, and have increased visions. And through the prophets I gave parables.”[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Amos 3:6-8, “If a trumpet is blown in a city, do the people not tremble? If there is calamity in a city, shall not [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]have done it? For the Master [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]does no matter unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. A lion has roared! Who is not afraid? The Master [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]has spoken! Who would not prophesy?”[/FONT]
Number 5. Gods character
Truth or tradition? Should a murderer be allowed to go freely? If there is a righteous Creator that offers eternal life is a few years of sin wotrh losing that? Does a loving Father correct His children or let them play in traffic? Is our m,odern culture so spoiled that any correction is seen as mean?
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Exodus 34:5-7, "Then YHWH descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the Name of YHWH. YHWH passed in front of him, and proclaimed: YHWH, YHWH Almighty, merciful and compassionate, longsuffering, and abounding in righteousness and truth. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression, and sin; but by no means leaving unpunished those who are guilty; Who visits the sin of the fathers upon the children and the children's children, to the third and fourth generation."[/FONT]
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