growing up Christian Options

[eunie03]

I've lived a pretty dogmatic life. I haven't known much else. I started talking to a friend who's a philosophy major, and he up and tells me he thinks we just disappear after this. We have no soul, no spirit. We just live and die, and decompose. Like we never existed.

It's kind of pointless then. To live a Christian life.

I've been trying to get away from it since the end of high school. Christianity, I mean. But no matter how hard I try, it's so hard for me to believe that this is it. That there's no heaven or hell. Then I think about all the years I've wasted going to church and essentially just talking to the ceiling in my room.

It's just as easy for me to doubt it all.

Anyway, the point of my topic. If you've grown up in a church, you've probably noticed how much stronger the fire is in the newborn Christian. Growing up with it... it just makes everything mundane and routine. Have you ever denounced Christianity, just so you can have that newborn fire? Do you think it's a sin? To want to experience the world and gain some sort of insight before blindly following the faith?

[Anonymous82]

if u find a watch lying in the sand on a beach... the first thing you do is wonder who's watch it might've been right? and someone made that watch right? the sand didn't just make something as intricated, delicate, and perfect out from nothing. someone made it... just like us... someone created us... some people say we evolved from the simplest forms of life but then who created life in the first place... I don't think any condtion in this universe can create any form of life on its own... I think God is 100% real and therefore heaven and hell exists... I dont think heaven is really up in the clouds nor that hell is beneath the earth... those are just comparisons... heaven and hell is a spiritual realm in a place and form currently unknown to us... I'm just putting in my thoughts and I respect what everyone else thinks... ^__^