Seems more & more every day, we hear of people becoming Atheist, & if not Atheist, leaving the church & becoming unbelievers. You don’t have to be an Atheist to be an unbeliever. A person can still believe in God, but not believe in Christianity and/or follow the Bible anymore.
A friend & I were discussing some people yesterday that we know that warms a church bench. The reason I use that term is because one of them had two affairs with married men. The first time she had an affair with a married man while she was still married. The entire time these affairs were going on she was attending church, proclaiming to be a Christian, how God was blessing her life, blah, blah, blah. The second man even attended church with her while the affair was going on & he was still married. He left the church he attended with his wife to attend the one with his mistress. They made no secret of the affair, & her church had no problem with their attendance.
Another person we were discussing was a Pastor of a local church that just didn’t show up one Sunday. He left his wife & moved to Birmingham with a woman he had been seeing for over a year.
Is it any wonder people are leaving their churches & becoming unbelievers? All these things we see, the things we read in the paper of things going on in churches. Is it any wonder they are becoming Atheist?
Look at the forum troll. He screams his Christianity, brags about how he can’t become unsaved, & all the time sits in his seat of judgment of us all. He knows nothing of love/compassion, when the Bible pushes those two very things. What we see/hear doesn’t depict a Christian at all. But there’s people like him in churches everywhere. There’s other members of this forum that make no secret of the fact they attend church, but the way they talk on this forum doesn’t speak of the life of a Christian. At least not the Christian the Bible speaks of.
I understand very well why people are leaving their Christian life. It’s easy to become discouraged when all we see/hear is lies & negativity within the churches & from people we know personally.
I know people/have family that attend the church where the assistant Pastor was a pedophile. It’s as though it was no big deal. Just get rid of him, forget about it, & continue on. The Pastor knew what was going on for 2 weeks before doing anything. Maybe he wanted the pedophile to get two more pay checks?
There’s a story of Jesus cleansing the Temple in John 2:13-16. He was offended that the Priests & Rabbis had insulted God’s House. If He exist, I wonder why He’s not cleaning house of these churches that need cleaning? No wonder people are getting discouraged, leaving, & becoming unbelievers. It becomes hard to believe in something that doesn’t do what He claims in his book, that He can do. Take prayer for instance. When’s the last time you saw Jesus raise a person from the dead?
Sorry to go on & on. People seem to frown upon anyone that’s an Atheist, or leaves his/her church. But I just think in this day & time, it’s easy to lean that way. Why would anyone want to be part of something (church/Christianity) that seems to have more evil in it than goodness?