Name a doctrine that you used to believe in but dont anymore.

[Dunban]

The rapture.

7 day creationism, or any type of creationism that doesn't involve the earth being at least several hundred million years old.

The infalliblity or "inerrancy" of the bible.

The belief that the Eucharist is just a symbol and not actually Christ's blood and flesh.

The Tribulation as being a future event and a literal 1000 year millenium coming.

The denial of Purgatory for souls.

The belief that the Catholic church is evil and the pope being the antichrist.

Tithing is for followers of Jesus.

Following OT laws are for followers of Jesus.

I'm up in the air about original sin, eternal torture and what the exact nature or fate of people are once they expire on earth.

 

[MamaZ]

That you have to be good enough for God to love you. You have to work to gain salvation. And that God was a man.

 

[PersephonesTear]

I used to believe in Young Earth Creationism.

Then I started attending high school at a Baptist private school. While there, they worked hard to indoctrinate us with the supposed "evidence" for YECism. They even had expert "Creation scientists" come as special guest speakers for chapels and the like.

It became abundantly clear to me, very quickly, that Young Earth Creationism was a load of hogwash with NO scientific evidence. And that, in fact, every piece of evidence with which we were presented was fabricated, and that those who promoted it were being incredibly dishonest in their quest to shove an unscientific doctrine down our throats while clumsily attempting to pass it off as an "intelligent" argument.

So I researched evolution on my own, learned about what it really meant, and found that there is no contradiction at all in believing in such while also believing the Genesis account. Truth comes from God, where ever it is found. So if animals evolved, that is God's truth.

 

[daydreamergurl15]

When I was a Baptist, I wanted to be saved and they had me read the "Sinner's Prayer". Consequently, I said that prayer almost every time I want to the church because they didn't teach me about whAt it meant to repent. When I started worshiping with the church at my current congregation and reading my bible and realized the importance of baptism for remissions of sin and salvation, I rejected the thought that man has more authority over Scripture.

 

[bornofGod888]

Some of the comments on this thread scare me. Yes, they sound like renunciations of the truth...

 

[daydreamergurl15]

Some of the comments on this thread scare me. Yes, they sound like renunciations of the truth...

Reading them I see what you mean. Down right scary.

 

[bricklayer]

Enlightenment comes always with repentance. I am hard pressed to think of a doctrine that has not changed over the last thirty four years. All of the changes do have one general theme;I understand God to be much more and we to be much less than I was left to believe.

 

[KTskater]

Oneness-in reference to denying the Trinity, as taught in many apostolic Pentecostal churches.
Speaking in tongues- I'm not a cessationist. I just believe that when it happens, most churches that practice it do not follow Paul's explicit instructions on the gift.

 

[bbbbbbb]

Reading them I see what you mean. Down right scary.

I agree entirely.

 

[Albion]

"Holy Tradition"

Works Righteousness

(tie)

 

[bornofGod888]

That "General Theology" (GT) actually had anything to do with the same...

 

[ananda]

Equal inspiration of all books in the Protestant canon.
Dispensationalism.
Rapture.
"Legalism".
Faith-only.
&c.

 

[dogs4thewin]

pre-trib rapture ( not COMPLETELY certain but leaning towards post-trib and once saved always saved.

 

[bbyrd009]

The doctrine of Original Sin (as opposed to the Law of sin and death), which divides us from the rest of Christianity, How to Recognize the Fallacy of Death Centric Western Christian Models, and is what is killing us here, I think.

The doctrines of Uni- or Trini-, which seek to define God, but just actually divide us.

 

[bbyrd009]

...and, most of the doctrines already rejected here; "Rapture," (Ezekiel 13:18-20), etc.

 

[Pteriax]

Some of the comments on this thread scare me. Yes, they sound like renunciations of the truth...

I was just thinking that

 

[Joykins]

I do not believe premilleninal dispensationalism. that heaven is a place our spirits (if redeemed) may go when we die, and Biblical inerrancy to be heretical, but I no longer have any belief in them.

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

I do not believe premilleninal dispensationalism. that heaven is a place our spirits (if redeemed) may go when we die, and Biblical inerrancy to be heretical, but I no longer have any belief in them.

Good for you!
I view that doctrine as the "spider web" doctrine.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the doctrine of Zionist Dispensationalism but were afraid to ask...and for good reason!

Dispensationalism

Evaluating Premillennialism: Part II – Christ’s Return and the Rapture by Cornelis P. Venema


No evaluation of Dispensational Premillennialism may ignore its teaching of a two-phased return of Christ, the first phase of which is commonly known as the rapture. This feature is its most widely known aspect. Popularized by such best-selling books as Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet Earth, the film The Return, and bumper stickers warning [...]

The teaching of a pre-tribulational rapture as understood within the framework of Dispensationalism is not founded upon the teaching of any biblical passage. Nor is it a teaching that can withstand careful scrutiny, particularly when measured against the general teaching of the Scriptures regarding the return of Christ at the end of the age. The Bible teaches neither that believers will be exempted from present or future tribulation at the end of the present age, nor that the rapture will be the event described by Dispensationalism. The one passage that speaks of the event commonly known as the rapture scarcely supports the view that enjoys such popularity among dispensationalists.

Blondie - Rapture - YouTube



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[Gnarwhal]

Many, if not most, of these lists are pleasantly surprising. Glad to see folks have shucked some of those inane beliefs (like the rapture, symbolic baptism/Eucharist).

 

[AmericanChristian91]

Young Earth Creationism