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My Story: The Questions Which Didn’t Have The Right Answer

Mar 302006

flowers This is a ‘work-in-progress’; it is my attempt to share some of the experiences and thought processes which have taken me away from being a committed, Bible-believing Christian. I became a Christian in 1984. I began to have serious doubts around 2001 which eventually led me to withdraw from my involvement in church and Bible studies in 2005.

I have wanted to write about this for a while but wasn’t sure where to start – until I had the idea of expressing the thoughts and experiences as a series of questions. This makes sense to me, since one way of summarizing ‘the change in me’ is to say, “I’ve moved from having a collection of ‘Christian’ answers with which I was (mostly) satisfied, to having a collection of questions to which I’m not convinced the ‘Christian’ answers are the most plausible, or best, or most correct.”

Is the Bible the Word of God?

My change in faith No Responses »

Mar 302006

Mountains in France This was originally written as Question 10 of My Story: The Questions Which Didn’t Have The Right Answer. Since it’s long, I’ll add subheadings to break it up.

First, some background to explain how I came to believe the Bible was the Word of God, how I maintained that belief and all it meant to me in a personal as well as an intellectual sense.

The Doctrine of Hell

My change in faith, Writing before 2004 No Responses »

Nov 232001

Fall colors (red) “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Purpose: I wrote this to raise the questions: Who did Jesus believe was going to hell and does that match who Christians today say will go to hell?

I think it would be fair to say the doctrine of hell is the most troubling doctrine in Christianity. And by that I mean, the teaching that some people, after death, will be consciously tormented, forever.