What’s a key ‘Christian’ idea or concept that you fiercely believed before, but don’t believe today?
What changed your mind?
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That the OT was just background information. Bible study and learning what exegesis was and how to use the tools to achieve it changed my mind.
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Trinity. It is worshipping the wrong god.
We worship the Father in the name of the Son.
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father given to the Son. Not a 3rd God.
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I thought it was ‘Christian’ to believe ‘autonomous free will’ was the very reason I came to faith in Jesus; that the Gospel was about persuading others to choose Him in the very same way that I thought I did; that all they needed was to conjure up faith in Him out of their own desire to be with God.
Then I learned that no one seeks after God; that faith itself is a gift from God, and there was nothing in me that desired the things of God…. all of it was a gift! I was dead to anything spiritual, and it was God who made faith alive in me. It’s all His work, and not mine.
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Originally thought communion was symbolic….oh boy ??
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That Jesus was knocking at the door of my heart and I had a choice to open the door or not.
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That if I didn’t ask forgiveness for EVERY sin then they wouldn’t be forgiven
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That I had to beg for his love.
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Like… Everything. Okay not really but soooooo much. Ha. Five years ago me thinks today me is a total heretic!
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Timing of rapture, I guess.
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The circular structure of the arguments for the bible the contextual errors specifically evangelicals using Romans 1. The insistence of continued biblical application to today even though that would not apply to any other text of the era
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The pretrib rapture
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once saved, always saved
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patriarchy—though it is biblical in that it is recorded in the bible as how families lived (male headship, female submission) recent greek and hebrew translations show that egalitarianism or mutuality is god’s will for christians. it stops abuse and everyone is responsible for their own walk with the Lord and seeking his face/will.
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Once apon a time, I believed the earth was millions of years old… and then I read Genisis and the gospels and realised Jesus refered to Genisis as factual history.
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Rapture
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Grew up believing the KJV was the only version of the Bible. #facepalm
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If you don’t believe today .. that mean you don’t believe in the beginning
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Used to believe in not being cremated but now I believe it’s irrelevant.
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I changed my mind about tithing. I still believe in it however, just not the way I learned it.
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I used to believe in sola scripture. Do not anymore.
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That God doesn’t hate.
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I’ve not been so romantic about churchianity. A.d no, that’s not a misspelling.
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I used to be quite the fundamentalist: biblical inerrancy, Young Earth Creationism, the works.
Then I studied science, studied theology, and discovered historic, sacramental Christianity.
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We chose God, when really He chose *us*. I have much more of a deep love for Jesus now.
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Okay this is going to sound stupid, but when I was a child I believed the Trinity was Jesus, God the father, and the Holy spirit was the grandfather
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The pre-trib rapture. Reading the actual Bible.
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Predestination. It was really something I struggled with. Simply because it was horribly explained to me originally.
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Eternally, never ending conscious torment for the lost in hell. I’ve changed to an an annihilationist view after much back and forth.
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I once believed that salvation came the moment someone believed using Acts 16:31…. Just like everyone else.
But what I realized is that the verse only states salvation would come to pass. It doesn’t say when.
What changed my mind was the fact that the verse itself isn’t the promise of God. The promise of God wasn’t delivered until verse 32….. What changed my mind was the truth.
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Hyper Preterism and pre mill.
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Awesome question! I have a few answers, but probably the one that was most significant for my faith was ‘sola scriptura’. Reading early church history, looking at reasons for the infallibility of scripture, and considering the Gospel accounts of the establishment of the church revealed some logical problems in that doctrine that I couldn’t resolve. I came to realize that “only Scripture” was biblically and theologically unsound.
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That contraception is ok within marriage
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That roman catholic was the true church.
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Public prayer meetings. Changed reading Jesus words to go into your closet and close the door
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That God only preserved his word in the original autograph’s and only in Hebrew and Greek 2000 years ago, and that no one can be 100% sure that certain passages of God’s word have come down to us with complete accuracy. Praise God! I found out that God is powerful enough and was generous enough to have preserve his word with 100% accuracy even up until today in the worlds dominant language even though it is a translation and has made it accessible to all Christians regardless of whether or not they have any understanding of Greek or Hebrew and that I can trust it fully and completely right down to the very punctuation.
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PreTrib Rapture
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I formally believed in the pre-tribulation rapture, but the Bible does not support that false teaching.
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Trinity:reading the Bible changed my mind. I was taught Jesus is God by church but reading the Bible I found they are separate entities.
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I would not say that I “fiercely” believed it, but I did accept the teaching that as Christians we could eat most anything that was considered food. But I came to find out that the Scriptures define food as those things which are listed as being clean and fit for human consumption in the Torah.
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I love this thread and question.
My first big deviation from my sphere of boxed theological presention was in reading scriptures about the rapture. And realizing that Revelation 16:15-16 explicitly states it is before God’s wrath is poured out at Armageddon. (And this fits and clarifies every portion on the subject). That opened the door to other studies which changed my eating habits and walked me down the Emmaus Road listening in on Jesus’ conversation hinted at in Luke 24. I learned to love God’s law rather than to see it as an unreachable burden by praying Psalm 119 with David.
My faith today has deeper roots and a firmer foundation as it is laid on the law and prophets as Paul taught and aligned with the Cornerstone which is Christ and living closer to the WAY as faith was lived out in Acrs.
Now I’m hungry to integrate with more believers and fellowship based on scripture rather than denominational and theological constructs. It is exciting to see true believers moving closer to scripture. We are growing in grace, and that is our purpose, to awake in His likeness when we see Him as He is.
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I believed that I had to pray the rosary as part of my Christian life. But I had a lot of questioning about it because I used to read the Bible and noticed that Jesus taught the disciples when praying to say: “our Father who is in heaven…” and the Lord led me to a church where I found the answers to my questions. Can’t thank Him enough
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Eternal torment. Why I don’t believe it’s lasts forever specificly for mankind was doing a through Bible study on it.
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There’s actually a few things that I was taught to believe, but can’t find in the bible and am now skeptical on (yeah, I’ll catch slack for this). NOWHERE in the bible does it say the disciples were actually water baptized. Only speculation of what would seem to be plain and simple common sense, which is a legitimate argument, but not documented anywhere. Also, many believe (not me) that if you’re truly saved, you won’t even have an inclination to walk away from God OR you’ll be strong enough spiritually to fight it off in Jesus name. While there is a tremendous amount of truth to the later part, the former part that no one will even be inclined to walk away is absolutely false. There are former believers who’ve walked away from God and even reject His very existence resulting from their own emotional response to a significant loss (i.e. family member who died from cancer, etc.). Why would a truly loving God to allow a believer to be killed by a drunk driver? Why would a truly loving God allow children to die of cancer or to be violated by an adult? Why doesn’t God intervene in……..? And the list goes on. In the process of trying to find answers to these questions, some believers actually develop doubt and/or skepticism and even become cynical towards the very gospel that prompted them to embrace God in the first place. It DOES happen and anyone who rejects that simply refuses to acknowledge what actually happens a lot.
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trinitarianism
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I used to be a Pre Trib rapture, staunch Arminian. But I still love people who are. It’s not a deal breaker for me with fellowship.
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