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<blockquote data-quote="golgotha61" data-source="post: 68406209" data-attributes="member: 288868"><p>I am curious as to what a "true follower of Christ" looks like in your estimation. Above you said that no one completely surrenders to Christ, so I wonder if one can be a "true follower of Christ" in your judgement and still not surrender completely to Him? The reasoning that you give of ex-Christians becoming atheists is simply the opposite of ex-atheists becoming Christians and the only thing that this process demonstrates is man's ability to chose freely what to believe and what not to believe. And the idea that one wakes up and then denies the reality of the Christian faith is not as simplistic as you portend it to be. In a few of these conversions lies an existential base which is ofter centered on suffering and the inability to reconcile suffering with a loving God. I have found few, if any, denials of God's existence and the rejection of the truthfulness of His Word based solely on scholarship. It seems that there is always some event involved that creates a bias that the skeptic is unable to set aside.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="golgotha61, post: 68406209, member: 288868"] I am curious as to what a "true follower of Christ" looks like in your estimation. Above you said that no one completely surrenders to Christ, so I wonder if one can be a "true follower of Christ" in your judgement and still not surrender completely to Him? The reasoning that you give of ex-Christians becoming atheists is simply the opposite of ex-atheists becoming Christians and the only thing that this process demonstrates is man's ability to chose freely what to believe and what not to believe. And the idea that one wakes up and then denies the reality of the Christian faith is not as simplistic as you portend it to be. In a few of these conversions lies an existential base which is ofter centered on suffering and the inability to reconcile suffering with a loving God. I have found few, if any, denials of God's existence and the rejection of the truthfulness of His Word based solely on scholarship. It seems that there is always some event involved that creates a bias that the skeptic is unable to set aside. [/QUOTE]
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