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I ran across a sad little blog today: Debunking Christianity.

This Blog has been created for the express purpose of debunking Evangelical Christianity. We are all ex-Christians. Most of us are ex-ministers, and even ex-apologists for the Christian faith. We are now freethinkers, skeptics, agnostics, and atheists. With the diversity of our combined strengths, we seek to debunk Christianity.

It's typically bitter. At first I was tempted to engage in debate, but you can't debate against emotions.

I have met people like this before, and I have come to believe that they are not 'back sliden', but the never had a true relationship to begin with. Sure, they may have been pastors and such, but if you're a good public speaker with the right training, you can pull off a sermon, even lead people, but that doesn't necessarily make you a Christian. For what ever reasons, they entered in to ministry, then left.

I think that Revelations 3:16 speaks hope into this situation: So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. They aren't hot, they aren't luke warm: They are decidedly cold. So God hasn't 'spit them out'. He still has room to work in their lives. They have made their position clear, and gives a platform to work with. Being cold is much better than being in the Church and 'having a form of Godliness but denying the power'.

And then there is the old saying, "A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." I could hammer on them, but only the Spirit driven word will have any real affect.



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