Have you 'switched' from one religion to another?

Maybe not what you are looking for, but I had never changed away from what churches want to call "Christianity" (which is actually poorly veiled Judaism mixed with Christian doctrine). I have, however, in my search for God, changed from one denomination to another, which can also be a fairly radical change, depending.

In my teens, I attended mainly Southern baptist churches, living in Florida. But I went to them because of various girls that I was interested in. Nevertheless, I held on to my faith, even though I did not understand it.

During most of my adult life, I partied and lived pretty wildly, not living my faith, although I still believed in God, and what Christ did on the cross for me.

About five years ago, I began seeking the Lord again. There were many things that I did not understand, and I wanted to. The things in the Bible seemed incredible to me, and I wanted to find the truth. My sister, whom I had always thought to be walking closely with God, had been attending a Pentecostal church for ten years, and I decided to start going there. Quite a difference between the quiet, almost sleepy services in the Southern baptist church, and the .......well, out of respect, I will say, the somewhat more active services in the Pentecostal church.

I tried for three years to accept the things that the charismatics claimed as truth, but did not get anywhere. Most of these people claim that you just do not have enough faith, if you never get "filled" with the "Holy Ghost". That is bullshit. I did not know it at the time, but they are lost in a previous dispensation, where signs, miracles, and wonders really happened. These were mainly the things that I had always questioned since the beginnings of my faith, and I was quickly losing that, because I simply refused to force myself to "speak in tongues", among other things, including the laying on of hands for healing. Just as I was about to give up, and turn away from faith, God allowed me to see the truth. I had never really studied my Bible, and tried to truly understand, with a rational mind, the things written in it. I always let whatever pastor I was listening to, do my studies for me, hardly opening my Bible, unless I was in church.

I was finally led into rightly dividing the word of truth, which is to say that I learned about the apostle Paul, and all of the things that the risen Christ revealed to him.These things are another completely different gospel than that which was taught by John the Baptist, the Lord Jesus, and the 12 apostles. The things that the risen Lord revealed to Paul were never before known by any men (Eph. 3:1-11), and are the revelation of the mystery of Christ. We learn about the cross of Christ, and how it changed so many things. Paul preached Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery (Rom. 16:25), and THIS, not the gospel taught to Israel, is the gospel of your salvation today. Today, we are to follow the risen Jesus Christ's heavenly ministry through Paul, NOT the Lord Jesus' earthly ministry to Israel.

Once I understood the differences between the two gospels, and what the PURPOSE was for the signs, miracles, and wonders that accompanied the earthly ministry of Christ (they were strictly for unbelieving Israel, that they would KNOW that Jesus was the Christ), and applied this knowledge to my studies of the Bible, things began making sense for the very first time, and I found a gospel for today that FITS, and does not deny common sense. It was there all along, I needed only to see it.

Right division is the KEY to understanding the Bible, for without it, there is only confusion and contradiction. Paul gives us this one extremely important verse: "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Tim. 2:15

Failure to rightly divide the word drives more people away from God than any other single cause.

Today, due to the fact that only 1% of churches do rightly divide, and preach Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery, I do not attend any church. I live in the Panama City, Florida area, and out of nearly 300 churches, NONE of them rightly divide! I now study with a pastor named Curt Crist, out of North Carolina, and I do it online. He knows the truth, and preaches the unadulterated grace of God, according to the revelation of the mystery.

http://www.welcometograce.com/

I was raised Pentecostal Christian, then I started to read all religions because Christianity didn't make any since to me. I was believed in Buddhism for a very long time. I think that its a philosophy and not a religion. Do I believe that Buddha is a god, NO. I just like what he said, I find it very positive. I'm atheist because I do not believe in a god, I believe that if we didn't have organized religion we would be far more advanced as a population. I am very happy with my choices, I find facts and logic comforting.

Not from ONE religion to ANOTHER, really, but:

- Started out as an implicit atheist kid, like we all do.

- Quickly got indoctrinated into theism by my well-intentioned mom.

- Eventually converted to Christianity and was pretty hardcore for a while.

- Started doubting, which led to my eventual deconversion.

- Went through lots of different phases, ranging from some generic theism, to deism, to complete 50/50 agnosticism, to "Wow, wtf is happening to me?!" to periodically oscillating back and forth between belief and disbelief.

- And now I'm back to being an atheist once more, but this time it is due to me actually having thought things over, not just as a default position.

So basically: I got indoctrinated into theism due to my credulous child brain and other people having a major influence on me. I converted to Christianity for emotional reasons. And I ended up gradually deconverting because I started asking questions and thinking critically. I didn't know at that point that I would. But now that I'm here, it seems like it was indeed pretty inevitable.

Allowed to become christian as a child and became Jewish as an adult.

I found I do not believe the dogma of Christianity and the Jewish religion has no dogma and i believe it is the correct religion for me.

in case you think of faith is like Ice cream then anybody you desire is high quality, positioned the call of distinctive religions on a dart board and %. the 1st faith that gets hit by using a dart for all I care, it somewhat is none of my buisness what you like. in case you do no longer purely like the 1st one you %. take that one off the board and throw your dart back. on the different hand in case you have faith that faith is like insulin and purely one will treatment your ills then you ought to examine apologetics (rationalization for the religion) and %. the single that somewhat fits with certainty. I even have spent years analyzing apologetics and as much as now as i'm worried the Jesus of the Bible remedies my ills. BTW quoting scripture to those who have not got faith that the Bible is the word of God, is mindless and makes us seem stupid. Quoteing verses purely works with people who already settle for the Bible as actual. you should locate different common procedures to witness to non-christians.

I just left religion.

why?

God made many miracles to ancient people yet he won't make a miracle and show it to me to prove his existence, I wanna see a dead bird cut into many parts come back to life like what Abraham saw.

many stories are unrealistic and it contradict science and history, like global flood.

I have been a Christian all my life. And, yes i am happy with my decision to stay a Christian. Cause God did a powerful miracle in my life.

I was born with a hole in my heart. I had several surgeries to replace the valve in my past. But my recent surgery in August of 09 was completely different the my past surgeries.

I was in the hospital for about week, and i went home on the weekend. But all of a sudden when monday came i turn completely to the worst of conditions. I was constantly spitting up like i wanted to throw up but nothing was coming out only spit. I was laying on the couch while my mom was calling the doctor to see what we should. While i was on the couch i was looking at the roof, and i actually saw out-linings of two angels on the roof. The doctors told my mom that i should come back to the hospital. And While my mom was getting ready to go to the hospital i told her that i actually two angels, and she said "I guess we're doing the right thing". When we got to the hospital, we found out why i was constantly spitting up, the doctor told us that there was fluid around my heart. So, he put drain on me to drain the fluid out, at first it was draining constantly. This doctors were waiting for it to go down from 100ccs to 50ccs. This time i got a room with internet connection. So, my mo brought my laptop in the next day. While i was on the internet one day. I decided to send a prayer request to a christian television. And the moment i sent the prayer reques the drain had stopped draining i was completely healed God had healed my there no more fluid around my heart. So, i was able to go home that weekend. A couple of months we went my doctor. My mom asked him "How could it just to like that?" The doctor said "There's no explanation". We knew what that meant, it was God. God had healed me. That was the first miracle i have ever had. God does exist, God his real. He healed me.

I had a Christian nurse during my second stay. I told her the story, about the angel. She said that i was lucky cause decided to go to the hospital that. She said that if i had waited for the next day to go to the hospital that i wouldn't have made it. Meaning i would have died. the next day.

The angels were telling me that i needed to go. I was the only one that could see the angels. They came to my house only for me. God did a powerful miracle for me he healed me, he removed all the fluid from around my heart.

Yes, from vain religion: law to pure religion: grace,

since the law was harmful, His grace is harmless.

born into a christian family, raised christian, was never comfortable with the gaps in the logic. said i was christian til about 24 years old then became (officially) atheist.

I was an atheist and now a hard born christian