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How would an atheist-materialist become a Christian?
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<blockquote data-quote="Petros2015" data-source="post: 71384199" data-attributes="member: 388403"><p>I don't think that science and faith need to be incompatible, I would suggest reading The Science of God by Gerald Schroeder. It was beautiful and opened my eyes in a new way to creation stories and how they fit into a universe that involves things like relativity. This book opened the door to a walk back from a new perspective. There are some lectures on youtube that he gives which you can find, though the book is much more comprehensive.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>History is very important to me. "Everything happens for a reason" and those reasons are in the past. I eventually followed the trail back to the Eastern Orthodox. There are a wealth of traditions and writings that I believe were meant to go hand in hand with the Scriptures. A favorite book is "The Orthodox Way" by Kallistos Ware, but you can go all the way back to things like Athanasius, On The Incarnation, circa 350AD or even further. There's a whole world of thought and interpretation available.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.copticchurch.net/topics/theology/incarnation_st_athanasius.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.copticchurch.net/topics/theology/incarnation_st_athanasius.pdf</a></p><p></p><p>The bible is the lynchpin though, the cornerstone, if you will.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes and it is very personal, but I would be cautious of it in a vacuum</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>lol that's a tough one. I think you just have to experience it for a while <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The other big influence in my life was Leo Tolstoy's What I Believe. This was profound and again, opened the door for me to come back to God. I really think with your marxist / atheist background this book will have a big influence upon you as it did for me. It was his own personal journey and experience/revelation of the Christian faith. I do not agree with everything that he said and he wrote it partially in reaction to the ills that he saw of the Orthodox Church (which, years later, I joined). One of the things that Tolstoy seemed to feel was that 'we could do it alone of our own unaided strength', and I don't think that was ever meant to be. But I do believe that God wanted me to have both sides of the coin, the pure tradition, and the raw revelation, and I'm the better for it. Definitely check this book out. You can listen to the audio book (as I have, many times) on Librivox</p><p></p><p>"Everybody thinks of changing the world, nobody thinks about changing themselves" ~Tolstoy</p><p></p><p><a href="https://librivox.org/what-i-believe-by-leo-tolstoy/" target="_blank">LibriVox</a></p><p></p><p>But also visit the book the Orthodox Way, so you too have both sides of the coin.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This might not be applicable to me, I was raised Pentecostal but walked away from it and the 12 Steps of Recovery opened the door to me to consider God in a new light, which I did. It was a 3 year journey later that took me back to where I am today.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/smf-121_en.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/smf-121_en.pdf</a></p><p></p><p>It was a long time before I became a Christian again, I started from scratch, threw everything out and sought God rawly. But the 12 Steps struck me as a sort of a 'zen Christianity'. This is, I thought, what it was always supposed to be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Petros2015, post: 71384199, member: 388403"] I don't think that science and faith need to be incompatible, I would suggest reading The Science of God by Gerald Schroeder. It was beautiful and opened my eyes in a new way to creation stories and how they fit into a universe that involves things like relativity. This book opened the door to a walk back from a new perspective. There are some lectures on youtube that he gives which you can find, though the book is much more comprehensive. History is very important to me. "Everything happens for a reason" and those reasons are in the past. I eventually followed the trail back to the Eastern Orthodox. There are a wealth of traditions and writings that I believe were meant to go hand in hand with the Scriptures. A favorite book is "The Orthodox Way" by Kallistos Ware, but you can go all the way back to things like Athanasius, On The Incarnation, circa 350AD or even further. There's a whole world of thought and interpretation available. [URL]http://www.copticchurch.net/topics/theology/incarnation_st_athanasius.pdf[/URL] The bible is the lynchpin though, the cornerstone, if you will. Yes and it is very personal, but I would be cautious of it in a vacuum lol that's a tough one. I think you just have to experience it for a while :) The other big influence in my life was Leo Tolstoy's What I Believe. This was profound and again, opened the door for me to come back to God. I really think with your marxist / atheist background this book will have a big influence upon you as it did for me. It was his own personal journey and experience/revelation of the Christian faith. I do not agree with everything that he said and he wrote it partially in reaction to the ills that he saw of the Orthodox Church (which, years later, I joined). One of the things that Tolstoy seemed to feel was that 'we could do it alone of our own unaided strength', and I don't think that was ever meant to be. But I do believe that God wanted me to have both sides of the coin, the pure tradition, and the raw revelation, and I'm the better for it. Definitely check this book out. You can listen to the audio book (as I have, many times) on Librivox "Everybody thinks of changing the world, nobody thinks about changing themselves" ~Tolstoy [URL='https://librivox.org/what-i-believe-by-leo-tolstoy/']LibriVox[/URL] But also visit the book the Orthodox Way, so you too have both sides of the coin. This might not be applicable to me, I was raised Pentecostal but walked away from it and the 12 Steps of Recovery opened the door to me to consider God in a new light, which I did. It was a 3 year journey later that took me back to where I am today. [URL]http://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/smf-121_en.pdf[/URL] It was a long time before I became a Christian again, I started from scratch, threw everything out and sought God rawly. But the 12 Steps struck me as a sort of a 'zen Christianity'. This is, I thought, what it was always supposed to be. [/QUOTE]
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