Some Atheists Say, "I Used to Be a Christian"

It's common to hear some atheists who say, "Well I used to be a Christian until I found out the truth." which one has to realize that Christianity is not just a religion, it's a personal relationship with God that grows deeper each day making the Christian only want to please God all the more.  Looking at some atheists, some of them supposedly attended Evangelical churches but they were not saved.  Just like being in a garage does not make you a car, being inside a church or a religious academic institution does not make you a practitioner of that religion.   Some of these atheists were also former members of Roman Catholicism or other pseudo-Christian denominations that claim to be Christian but teaches a doctrine contrary the Bible.

In the doctrine of eternal security according to historical Christianity, it's either you are saved or you are not saved.  Matthew 7:23 has Jesus saying to the unsaved saying, "Depart from me ye that worketh iniquity."  He said I never knew them because they were not saved to start with.  1 John 2:19 says that those who departed from the flock were not really believers.  If you are truly saved then you are bound to endure to the end even if you may have fallen away today but you cannot fall away completely.  False converts end up falling away consistently even to the point of leaving fellowship because while they were physically part of the fellowship, they were never truly part of the fellowship of believers.  The same goes for atheists who claim to be formerly Christians - no true Christian would ever truly renounce their faith, it's just impossible!

Many of them use the "brutality" of the Bible as an excuse for having converted to atheism rather than receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.  The big problem is that if atheism does not believe in moral absolutes then what is their ground to condemn the Bible's events or what's their ground to say God is cruel and unjust for that reason?  It's always been the excuse as found in Romans 1:21 says, "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened."


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