36 Events In My Life
When my faith and prior belief was challenged
DOCTRINE
When I realized not all Christians believed in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
DOCTRINE
When I realized there was doctrinal confusion amongst Christians in the second, third, and fourth century such as Gnosticism, church authority, Arianism, the Trinity, etc.
HISTORY
When I learned the separation of the Orthodox Church from the Roman Catholic Church had occurred in 1054 AD (the Great Schism)
HISTORY
When I learned about the enlightenment
DOCTRINE
When I realized the rapture is not Biblical
SCIENCE
When I learned about science and scientific theory by watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos
HISTORY
When I learned about all the confusion and mess that happened during the Protestant Reformation
DOCTRINE
When I learned that the Protestant foundational belief Sola Scriptura is circular and not Biblical
REASONING
When I learned about philosophy
HISTORY
When I learned about the Jewish Holocaust
DOCTRINE
When I learned about Mormonism
DOCTRINE
When I learned about Jehovah’s Witnesses
DOCTRINE
When I learned about Christian Science
DOCTRINE
When I learned about Scientology and saw how it affected a friend
HISTORY
When I learned about Evangelicals embracing American conservatism and politics and how it has affected my friends
HISTORY
When I learned about the history of Catholicism
REASONING
When I learned about logical deduction
HISTORY
When I learned about communism and fascism and the pain and suffering they have caused to humanity
SCIENCE
When I realized modern medicine and vaccinations have saved more human lives than prayers
REASONING
When I learned about Christians suffering and prayers not answered
HISTORY
When I learned about war and especially Hiroshima and Nagasaki (I have been to both cities and visited their peace museums)
SCIENCE
When I was reminded of science by watching Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
REASONING
When I realized agnostics and atheists don’t rape, kill, pillage and hurt others even though they do not fear any eternal punishment
REASONING
When I realized the God of all three Abrahamic religions appears to be a creation of man
REASONING
When I realized that the God that is found in the Bible appears to be narcissistic by his demands to be praised and worshiped
DOCTRINE
When I learned the God described by the Torah (and Old Testament) murders babies, women, men, animals and orders the annihilation of an entire race!
DOCTRINE
When I learned that in the Old Testament, New Testament, and Quran women are subjugated to men
DOCTRINE
When I learned that in the Old Testament, New Testament, and Quran slavery is not condemned
REASONING
When I learned that in the Old Testament, New Testament, and Quran this God expresses human anger and emotions and seems to be sometimes under the control of them and even his mind may sometimes change
REASONING
When I considered logic and the problem of why a perfect and loving God has allowed evil and imperfection to exist in our reality (Yes, I have considered the question of free choice)
REASONING
When I considered why God supposedly answers some prayers and not others when both people praying are in the same predicament (Eighth Air Force crew making 25 bombing missions without dying and the German toddler on the ground having his limbs blown off and his flesh burnt off because of their last mission)
DOCTRINE
When I learned not all Christians even agree on the Canon of the Bible
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon#Canons_of_various_Christian_traditions
DOCTRINE
When I learned the Bible does not mention the dinosaurs
SCIENCE
When I learned that there have been 5 cataclysmic earth events and that about 98.5% of all life forms that ever have lived on earth have been annihilated
SCIENCE
When I learned there is no good archeological evidence of a worldwide flood
SCIENCE
When I learned there is no good archeological evidence of the Exodus
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