Hi everyone

[Southern Stoic]

Hi there. I have a history of being a believer within one Christian denomination or another and I finished as an Orthodox Christian. Now (to make a long story short) after a period of strong agnosticism and nihilism I acknowledge the existence of God. I also still have an interest (perhaps obsession) in Christianity. I have some objections to the Faith that I would like to toss around the forum and get some feed back on. An introduction shouldn't be too terribly long, so I suppose I'll end this here. See you around the forum!

 

[Cormack]

Welcome to the board, mate Looking forward to those objections!

 

[justtrance]

Welcome! I look forward to seeing you around.

 

[TheGoodLight]

Howdy howdy, welcome back (been there, done there)! Going off of username, was Stoicism one of the places you turned to? (I've done a fair share of research on it myself. Quite the pantheistic bunch, those ancients were.)

 

[Maria Billingsley]

Hi there. I have a history of being a believer within one Christian denomination or another and I finished as an Orthodox Christian. Now (to make a long story short) after a period of strong agnosticism and nihilism I acknowledge the existence of God. I also still have an interest (perhaps obsession) in Christianity. I have some objections to the Faith that I would like to toss around the forum and get some feed back on. An introduction shouldn't be too terribly long, so I suppose I'll end this here. See you around the forum!

Great! Welcome!

 

[Tigger45]

Glad you decided to join us!

 

[Southern Stoic]

Howdy howdy, welcome back (been there, done there)! Going off of username, was Stoicism one of the places you turned to? (I've done a fair share of research on it myself. Quite the pantheistic bunch, those ancients were.)

For my questions about the existence of God I turned to present-day philosophers to see if there were any arguments for God's existence that weren't absolutely worthless. Because I was studying in a rare state (that is, with pure objectivity) I came away stunned and satisfied with the arguments. I suppose in this case I would be classified as a classical theist, although it really didn't change my life that much.
I turned to Stoicism for moral reasons and to adjust my thinking to help me live a little bit more sane. I've been studying it longer than I've been practicing it. Most of the time I think its safe to say that Epictetus would be so disappointed in my behavior
I still struggle with nihilism, but now its a burden and a struggle, not a belief.

After I studied about the existence of God, I read a few pretty big books on Jesus and historical arguments for his resurrection, but I just couldn't get "there." They were compelling arguments, I had no objections, but I still couldn't get there. Maybe it's because I couldn't study it with pure objectivity as I did while studying philosophical arguments for God's existence. Anyway, eventually I did think of some objections about that that I'll bring up in the forums.

 

[coffee4u]

G'day and welcome. You will want to make questions in a different area from Intros. Partly because more people will notice but generally because the moderators prefer it.
Maybe post in Exploring Christianity Exploring Christianity

 

[sunshineforJesus]

Hi and welcome to C F.

 

[Deade]

Hello SStoic.
Welcome to CF.

I hope you'll enjoy your stay here.