@kellyjaysaid It was real until you acknowledged it wasn't, making the whole experience false.
My faith was real to me until I lost my belief in the Bible. The "whole experience" was one of very sharp and everyday life-affecting reality. That was my perception and my experience during those years.
@kellyjaysaid You just came to your senses and realized you were playing at being a Christian
and left the fakeness of it to acknowledge the truth between you and that faith.
I wasn't "playing at being a Christian". I was walking the walk.
@fmfsaid My faith was real to me until I lost my belief in the Bible. The "whole experience" was one of very sharp and everyday life-affecting reality. That was my perception and my experience during those years.
Real until you acknowledge it wasn't, both cannot be true at the same time, if it was
real than you left the reality of God in your life. If what you had was false than what
you had before was not the reality of God in your life.
@kellyjaysaid Real until you acknowledge it wasn't, both cannot be true at the same time, if it was
real than you left the reality of God in your life. If what you had was false than what
you had before was not the reality of God in your life.
It felt real to me then just like it feels real to you now.
@fmfsaid It was the same God, Jesus and the Bible that you talk about here. It felt as real to me as did my wife and my kids.
He may have been the one you were pretending to know, but you acknowledge you
faked it. So the reality of God is something you have never known. I will tell you
this the real One is better than life itself.