Recent content by Fletch1992

Thanks singapito, my family are all Church of England but never got me christened so I grew up with minimal religious knowledge as none of them goes to church or believes. Leaves me to start questioning.

Hey. Can any previous agnostics share a bit of their experience in finding God and becoming Christian? I'm new and was just wondering about those who found faith later in life. Look forward to reading your replies and hopefully one day I'll have a story to share too.

Hey, I Find myself almost in exactly the same boat. I went to Mass for the first time in my life last Saturday with a good friend of mine and I was nervous too, but I found everyone really friendly and didn't feel judged at all- I'm going back again this coming weekend and can't wait to learn...

Thank you, will check it out :-)

Hey everyone, I'm new here and my aim is basically to find out more about Christianity and meet new people cos I've been on the fence about religion all my life and I want to get off it so to speak, and make my mind up. My knowledge is going to be negligible compared to a lot of you guys so...

What's wrong with bringing a different context into a thread? I admitted in my first post I hadn't read the entire thread, I'm new and just finding my way round.

I don't think I've missed the point, I've just given my opinion, I don't think free will exists based on what I said earlier, if we take free will as doing what you want or doing what you're told.

But is the choice to do as you're told free will? Studies into obedience have shown that there are many processes, such as the agentic state where people assign all responsibility for their actions onto another, i'd argue they didn't do that on purpose.

Ok, so a total newbie wading in here who is going to 100% honest and say that she didn't read every post in this thread due to tiredness from Uni work, I'd have to argue that free will doesn't exist for three reasons: 1. We are nearly all brought up to respect authority and doing as we are told...