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Category Archives: doubt
I don’t believe in God, but I still hate him anyways
(I initially did not want to write this post, because it felt it too emotional and selfish on my behalf. But after thinking about it several days, I thought it was still too emotional and selfish, but at the same … Continue reading
Posted in atheist, christian faith, church, confusion, death, doubt, doubt faith, emotions, evil, faith, fallacious, god, inspiration, life, love, Philosophy for Life
Tagged Atheist, begging the question, belief, biblical Christianity, christian, christian doubt, Christian faith, christian reasoning, Christian theology, Church, death, faith, free will, friendship, God, inspiration, logic of life, mindset, unbelief, Unfaith
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Stories of Faith & De-Conversion
A Similar (Touching) Story on an Atheist Minister leading the faithful: “Reading the Bible is what led me not to believe in God,” he said. I came across this article awhile back. It’s an old one, but one worth repeating. It really … Continue reading
Posted in apologetics, atheist, bible, Common Sense, contradiction, deceived, doubt, doubt faith, freedom, god, unbelief, word of god
Tagged atheism, Atheist, bible, BitterSweet, christian doubt, Christianity, CNN, doubt, faith, read your bible, unbelief
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My One Year Journey
It has been a year since I have come out to my wife and pastor, that I am no longer a christian. Really it has been an up and down emotional journey. I have to admit in the beginning of … Continue reading
Posted in atheist, christian, doubt, doubt faith, emotions, god, life, Musings for Life, religion, Where was God?
Tagged Afterlife, Atheist, BitterSweet, christian, christian doubt, Christianity, de-conversion, doubt, God, life, Musings, Unfaith
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Faith Will Fail: My letter to a Church Elder
So a while back one of the elders delivered a message at the church. And this was just a few weeks after I deconverted. In his message he talked about faith, doubt, belief, and unbelief. And in his message he … Continue reading
Posted in apologist, atheism, atheist, atheist vs christian, best apologist, christian faith, christian fraud, debate, doubt, doubt faith, emotions, faith, freethinker, jp moreland, religion, skeptic, skepticism
Tagged atheism, Atheist, belief, BitterSweet, christian doubt, Christian faith, christian reasoning, Christianity, Church, community, doubt, faith, jp moreland, reasonable belief, reasonable faith, skeptic, skepticism, unbelief
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Being in a Mixed marriage Christian-Atheist, the issues that come up, and overcoming the issues of dogma
One of the common struggles of a newly de-converted believer is his/her relationship with their believing spouse. So I asked Limey from the Confessions of a Y.E.C. Blog to give a little of his background, experiences, and advise for one … Continue reading
Posted in atheist, atheist vs christian, christian, church, creation, creationism, debate, doubt, doubt faith, emotions, evolution vs. creation, freedom, guest post, history, life, love, marriage, reason, religion, religion vs. science, skeptic, skepticism, The Thinking Atheist, unbelief
Tagged Atheist, belief, christian, christian doubt, Christian faith, Christianity, Church, creation, Creationism, de-conversion, freethought, life, logic of life, Marriage, mindset, reasoning, religion, Religion and Spirituality, skeptic, truth, unbelief
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No Sweet just Bitter
Since I’ve become a non-Christian, I have not attended any skeptic or atheist group meetups in my area. I have wanted and mentioned to my wife about visiting a UU church, but my wife has been firmly against that idea. Knowing that; … Continue reading
Worshipping a Hidden God
The Hiddenness of God!!! “God being thus hidden, any religion that does not say God is hidden is not true, and any religion that does not explain why [God is hidden] does not instruct.” –Blaise Pascal How can one worship an invisible … Continue reading
Posted in atheist vs christian, doubt, god, jesus, jesus the christ, jesus the messiah, life, Pascal, philosophy, ravi zacharias, religion, theology
Tagged Pascal, philosophy, Ravi Zacharias, religion
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Christian Doubt
How can we overcome the dark thoughts and feelings threatening to overwhelm our trust? This is a three part series on dealing with doubt (part 1, part 2, part 3). This is a post I found on the site CHRISTIAN DOUBT, but … Continue reading
Posted in biblical difficulties, christian faith, doubt, doubt faith, faith, god
Tagged christian doubt, Christian faith, doubt, faith, Mike Licona, William Lane Craig
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Why are the Gospels written in THIRD Person?
Contradiction #6 Well this is not much of a scriptural contradiction; it’s more of a logical contradiction. When going through the Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, I noticed that they are all written in third person. That was interesting, … Continue reading
Doubt vs Faith
I thought this would be the best expression of how I feel at times. This pictures really hits it. Faith sometimes, even though I have it sometimes seems so backwards, and upside downs.It does not always make sense to me. But … Continue reading