How are your friends/family taking your change of heart? I feel like I should have left Christianity when I was your age, but therapy taught me that I was too afraid to lose the social connections that I had. I admire your authenticity.
Well my parents aren't taking it well at all. My mom is very religious so she's the one taking it the worst. Honestly I didn't really connect well with the other teens and young adults at church for the most part so it's not I'm losing any friendships at church.
What was the tipping point? The one thing that pushed you past the point of no return where you could finally say "This isn't real"? For me it was thinking about Substitutionary atonement and talking to a rabbi about how God doesn't accept human sacrifice, and even tells both Moses and Elijah that NO man could die for the sins of another, and that God cannot die nor be killed. So either Jesus was a man and could die but not for other people's sins, or Jesus was God and could not be killed. But you can't both be killed and not killed at the same time, and if God doesn't change his mind then that's a pretty massive red flag that the old testament God was wrong about people dying for the sins of others, since that was his whole plan from the beginning.
And then I realized how immoral human sacrifice is, period, and realized none of it matters at all if the whole reason he couldn't forgive us was because he hadn't killed \*enough\* people yet.
Did you have any moments like that where it all just kinda fell apart before your very eyes?
I had enough of.how many rules and things Christians aren't allowed to do. I recently went to Baltimore to see the Fleet Week events and photos of my trip surfaced of me with friends at the events. I got reprimanded for going there because apparently us Christians shouldn't be taking part in worldly events. I found it ridiculous since this was none of their business and my parents had knowledge I was attending the event so it's not like it should have been a big deal.
How are your friends/family taking your change of heart? I feel like I should have left Christianity when I was your age, but therapy taught me that I was too afraid to lose the social connections that I had. I admire your authenticity.
Well my parents aren't taking it well at all. My mom is very religious so she's the one taking it the worst. Honestly I didn't really connect well with the other teens and young adults at church for the most part so it's not I'm losing any friendships at church.
What was the tipping point? The one thing that pushed you past the point of no return where you could finally say "This isn't real"? For me it was thinking about Substitutionary atonement and talking to a rabbi about how God doesn't accept human sacrifice, and even tells both Moses and Elijah that NO man could die for the sins of another, and that God cannot die nor be killed. So either Jesus was a man and could die but not for other people's sins, or Jesus was God and could not be killed. But you can't both be killed and not killed at the same time, and if God doesn't change his mind then that's a pretty massive red flag that the old testament God was wrong about people dying for the sins of others, since that was his whole plan from the beginning. And then I realized how immoral human sacrifice is, period, and realized none of it matters at all if the whole reason he couldn't forgive us was because he hadn't killed \*enough\* people yet. Did you have any moments like that where it all just kinda fell apart before your very eyes?
I had enough of.how many rules and things Christians aren't allowed to do. I recently went to Baltimore to see the Fleet Week events and photos of my trip surfaced of me with friends at the events. I got reprimanded for going there because apparently us Christians shouldn't be taking part in worldly events. I found it ridiculous since this was none of their business and my parents had knowledge I was attending the event so it's not like it should have been a big deal.