Has anyone ever switched religions? I am just curious.
I was Christian and then when I lost my faith(mostly in myself) I decided to find another religion because at that time I saw god only as a surpreme ruler--ready to point his finger at you--I did not find him loving. I was ready for something new in my life--something more exited that entitles you to more freedom.
Thus I turned Wiccan. I was one of those Wiccans who 'were Christian at the same time'. I still claimed to be Christian mostly because I feared hell. I later found it was impossible to juggle two religions,so I gave up Christianity('it's only holding me back anyways with its commandments and regulations',I thought.) And perhaps hell wasn't even real at all...
Then something happened to me. I realised how I loved to debate and study philosophy. I had a thirst for knowledge. I think that I had studied religions and their methods at that time more than ever! I came across my old abandonned bible shuved into one of my boxes filled with dusty old books. I blew off the dust,you could say. I flipped through and read some old testament scriptures.
"There shall not be found among you anyone who... uses divination or is a soothsayer or an augur or a sorcerer, | or a charmer, or a medium or a wizard or a necromancer."--Deuteronomy 18:10-11
"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." --Exodus 22:18
'Oh that's great',I sarcastically thought. I pictured a crazy old prophet pointing his finger at me! I guess I found it kind of amusing.
I quit Wicca because I found it's Pagan gods to be almost created in somebody's mind to me at least. So I guess you could have called me an Atheist.
Sooner or later I guess I pretty much had the OT installed in my mind. Then as I moved up to NT--I saw the biblical method began to switch. I began to see God in Jesus--and Jesus was love. At that time I had sunken so low in my life and craved love. God wasn't just the all mighty punisher to me anymore. He seemed like a father figure. I began to develope love for him and his son.
So I converted.
Has anyone else ever switched their religion or lost their faith?