Barriers to belief

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And you are dodging my question again. Yes or No?

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I will go put on a limb here and say...

Fetch is a onced saved always saved baptist

You are or were at one point a Jewish sect kind of guy

Fmf was a moderate christian who ran into the old testament

Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
So then we agree your faith was not 'real' or 'genuine'.

My faith was most certainly genuine in the sense that it was sincere and very real to me at the time. But, as you know, I do not now hold the claims that Christians make about Jesus and about a 'revealed god' to be true. And, as you also know, I accept you at your word when you say that, currently, your faith is sincere and very real to you; indeed, I can empathize fully.

Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
Of course ex-Christians like yourself exist. They are people who used to call themselves Christians but no longer do because they realized that their faith was not real.

You are still not getting it/pretending not to get it. My faith was real, let me assure you. It was the things I had faith in that I stopped believing to be real.

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What is your backgound?

I was raised Lutheran but a moderate type which I abandoned when it got too moderate. Been a generic conservative Christian type not fitting in perfectly with any denomination ever since.

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Conservative means I believe the Bible is a work of God through men. In other words literally true.

Originally posted by Eladar
Fmf was a moderate christian who ran into the old testament

I never used to worry too much about the Old Testament. It was what it was. I wasn't a Young Earth Creationist either.