Changed my Faith Icon to Agnostic:Explanation

[ProScribe]

I've decided that I was Agnostic about Jesus. Many different people on the Internet have expressed different views and resulted in a wide variety of possible conclusions. I still have a traditional Christian background and studied the religion of Christianity for about 12 years (private study) before deciding that becoming Agnostic was the best conclusion.

I also became interested Buddhism and liked some of the stuff I read. I also became interested in Pyschology and Psychiatry as means of treatment for various kinds of mental illnesses, but I'm not attending Medical School or anything like that.

So, I have resources and libraries at my disposal to learn and study about pretty much anything outside of a school curriculum.

I'm pretty much my own boss and get to decide what I want to study.

 

[SithDoughnut]

Good luck with your studies.

 

[awitch]

I've decided that I was Agnostic about Jesus.

Will you be open about the change to your friends and family? Do you expect to be alienated from any of them?

 

[ProScribe]

Will you be open about the change to your friends and family?

Yes.

Do you expect to be alienated from any of them?

No.

 

[ProScribe]

Perhaps, Jesus could give me a revelation later in life.

 

[Zoness]

Good luck

 

[SharonL]

Jesus only calls us for so long, then He turns us over to a reprobate mind to save our souls. Don't push Him beyond your deliverance - eternity is a long, long, long time.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Welcome to the Dark Side.

We have cookies.

(Old Joke.)

Good luck.

 

[bling]

Perhaps, Jesus could give me a revelation later in life.

What would change in your life?

What do you really want Christ to “do” for you besides just make his presence known?

Why do you want to know He exists?

Would knowing just before you died make you happy or mad he did not let you know earlier?

 

[ProScribe]

What would change in your life?

I'm not exactly sure.

What do you really want Christ to “do” for you besides just make his presence known?

I don't know yet.

Why do you want to know He exists?

Some logical inferences can be made about the existence of Jesus.

Would knowing just before you died make you happy or mad he did not let you know earlier?

Knowing what exactly? . .

 

[fschmidt]

Hi ProScribe, I am not Christian but I still attend church weekly. There is much more to religion than just belief. Religion provides morality and addresses psychological needs. I bet that if you did a study, you would find an inverse correlation between psychiatric disease and religious attendance. So don't let your skepticism turn you away from religion. Instead, you can just view religion from a different perspective, as I do.

 

[morningstar2651]

Welcome to the Dark Side.

We have cookies.

(Old Joke.)

Good luck.

Are you really surprised we lied about the cookies?

 

[AskTheFamily]

It's good that you are honest to yourself.

 

[mindfulness]

I've decided that I was Agnostic about Jesus. Many different people on the Internet have expressed different views and resulted in a wide variety of possible conclusions. I still have a traditional Christian background and studied the religion of Christianity for about 12 years (private study) before deciding that becoming Agnostic was the best conclusion.

I also became interested Buddhism and liked some of the stuff I read. I also became interested in Pyschology and Psychiatry as means of treatment for various kinds of mental illnesses, but I'm not attending Medical School or anything like that.

So, I have resources and libraries at my disposal to learn and study about pretty much anything outside of a school curriculum.

I'm pretty much my own boss and get to decide what I want to study.

I'm very interested in psych and in Buddhism too. I'm not an agnostic (yet) but I can understand why someone would want to be. Religion is a virus that destroys people's minds.

 

[fschmidt]

Religion is a virus that destroys people's minds.

That's a strange thing for a Calvinist to say.

 

[mindfulness]

That's a strange thing for a Calvinist to say.

I know. I'm not big on their doctrines to be honest with you.

I haven't found an icon which accurately depicts my faith yet.

 

[Vainslain]

You can't be agnostic all the time. There's no neutrality in the matters of faith and beliefs. Given that you are honestly searching for truths out there then God will have grace in providing you answers. But if you think agnosticism is a valid position to take much like atheism then it can give you internal problems. Because by itself is also a belief system that can be subjected to own standard

 

[Minty]

Good luck, Proscribe... I wish you luck

 

[ProScribe]

Religion is a virus that destroys people's minds.

(Just because you can get away with it on the Internet doesn't mean you should say that)

 

[xDenax]

I know. I'm not big on their doctrines to be honest with you.

I haven't found an icon which accurately depicts my faith yet.

I'm thinking you could find something more suitable than what you are using now.