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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? |
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I've been in church since I could walk...And I still have that fire. Sometimes, it's greater or less than other times...It goes up and down, but there's still a fire. You have to do stuff to fuel that fire though. Missions, church camp, witnessing...Stuff like that...It revives you. It makes you strong. Your fire for God will never die...Not if you truly believe and stuff...But yeah...
You can always talk to me about it. And yes, I believe denouncing God is a sin. Peter denied Jesus three times, but then he came back to the Lord, and the Lord accepted him. There IS a Heaven...and a Hell. You don't want to go to the second one. God bless and I'm here if you need me. |
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*xcaitlinx* |
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