Ex-Atheists: What Changed Your Mind?

by leavingwt 84 Replies latest jw friends

  • leavingwt
    leavingwt

    If you're an ex-atheist, what changed your mind?

    Please be as brief or comprehensive as you'd like. Thank you.

  • BurnTheShips
    BurnTheShips

    Felt empty.

    BTS

  • leavingwt
    leavingwt
    Felt empty.

    I'm guessing that this will be a popular sentiment among ex-atheists.

  • leavingwt
    leavingwt

    bttt, Surely there are more ex-atheists with stories.

  • daniel-p
    daniel-p

    I would like to be an ex-atheist (or ex-agnostic, whatever), but sometimes the "answers" feel more empty than what I have now, which is a searching. For now, a life of searching is more fulfilling than a life of having answers.

  • leavingwt
    leavingwt
    For now, a life of searching is more fulfilling than a life of having answers.

    I think many of us will agree that searching is indeed meaningful and refreshing. Especially, in view of most of our black & white, force-fed, religious pasts.

  • babygirl75
    babygirl75

    It's hard to explain and for those that are still athiest to believe, but I felt the Holy Spirit speak to my heart. I fought it for some time and then visited some churches. I was saved last month. I'm now Baptist.

  • leavingwt
    leavingwt
    It's hard to explain and for those that are still athiest to believe, but I felt the Holy Spirit speak to my heart. I fought it for some time and then visited some churches. I was saved last month. I'm now Baptist.

    Thank you, babygirl. I was first saved in a Baptist Church, during my youth. It was during Vacation Bible School.

  • John Doe
    John Doe
    Felt empty.
    BTS

    Is that a tacit admission that your worldview is based upon emotion?

  • SixofNine
    SixofNine

    So you actually thought that evidence was not available for the existence of a God at one time, BTS?

    All prior beliefs you had had about God's existence, you then found to be invalid and therefore not in fact evidence for God's existence?

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