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Again....so he "came to realize" that the thing he believed all along was not real. I personally have never had a "god voice" in my head. Never claimed to. It's not Biblical. If that's what he actually said, then it tells me that he really never had a Biblical faith to begin with. And it's no more a disproof for God than my faith is a reason for everyone that reads this to convert on the spot.
It's amazing how you seem to think that one guy getting fed up with living a charade disproves the real thing.
You're missing the point. If you don't have a 'voice' in the head, you must be one of the few humans that doesn't. I think that many (most) of us dialogue with our own minds. I do, certainly. We know that Christians claim this as the voice of God because that 'voice' agrees with whatever they think and even changes its' mind when they do. So the evidence is that it is the human mind and not a god. Mr Webb came to realise this and is one more bit of fairly strong evidence that a fairly large part of the Religious delusion is false.
I doubt that he realises (any more than you do) what a significant realisation of his part this was, but significant it is, nevertheless.
You're missing the point. If you don't have a 'voice' in the head, you must be one of the few humans that doesn't. I think that many (most) of us dialogue with our own minds. I do, certainly. We know that Christians claim this as the voice of God because that 'voice' agrees with whatever they think and even changes its' mind when they do. So the evidence is that it is the human mind and not a god. Mr Webb came to realise this and is one more bit of fairly strong evidence that a fairly large part of the Religious delusion is false.
I doubt that he realises (any more than you do) what a significant realisation of his part this was, but significant it is, nevertheless.
No. I don't believe that is God's voice, and I don't know any Christian that does. It's my own mind, as you say, talking to myself.
And no, Mr. Webb giving up the Christian life is, as John said in 1 John 2:19, evidence that he never was a Christian. I believe John over you, or Mr. Webb. Don't believe me, believe what God has said. I'm just a guy.
I honestly don't know. But why would it surprise anyone that someone who is in the whole Contemporary Christian music scene grow disillusioned with it? So much of it is just so shallow. He is no more a proof against Christianity than I am a proof for you all to convert to Christianity. He's just one guy.
Lee Strobel is just 'one guy' too, who allegedly went the other way and yet Christians are still shouting it from the rooftops. No doubt Webb wasn't a 'real' Christian huh?
No. I don't believe that is God's voice, and I don't know any Christian that does. It's my own mind, as you say, talking to myself.
Why, that's excellent. Just bear your opinion on that in mind the next time a Christian tells you that he (or she) is right because God tells them so.
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And no, Mr. Webb giving up the Christian life is, as John said in 1 John 2:19, evidence that he never was a Christian. I believe John over you, or Mr. Webb. Don't believe me, believe what God has said. I'm just a guy.
I would only wish that Mr Webb reads this forum - or indeed any other Christians who has fallen away in some degree from their Instilled faith. If they had not yet fallen into the arms of the Hellbound pondslime of the atheist religion, this 'No Real Christian' apologetic ought to do it.
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Lee Strobel is just 'one guy' too, who allegedly went the other way and yet Christians are still shouting it from the rooftops. No doubt Webb wasn't a 'real' Christian huh?
Everyone with at least half a brain eventually comes to question the faith and ultimately give it up on the grounds there's no foundations to support the decision to hold onto it and worse, dedicate one's life to it unless one is using it a means to an end--usually making scads of money off it the way the prosperity preachers and prophecy writers have. Those who stick with it have the following realities to overcome:
1. nobody associated with Jesus wrote a single word in support of him. The gospels were written a hundreds years after Jesus by anonymous people who never heard the first word Jesus spoke. For all intents and purposes Jesus was a "ghost", not a real person.
2. not a single historian in the first century wrote a single word about him or his apostles or his exploits. All this was fabricated hundreds of years later by zealots on fire to spread the gospel message and win converts. The truth was the last thing on their minds.
3. Christianity officially begins 2 centuries after Jesus at the council at Nicaea when emperor legalizes Christianity and makes it the official faith of his new Roman empire. Even then he didn't do it because he believed it was the right religion--he did it because he felt it was the best religion to go with to keep peace in his empire.
People who stop to investigate these details and then ponder what they uncover eventually come to say, "Why stick with a religion that has nothing to support it? I'm heading for the exit sign." And that's what millions of Christians are doing every year now because of a powerful tool called the Internet that we didn't have 30 years ago when the faith seemed it had no direction to go but up. Derek Webb is just another one of those millions.
Was his career flagging? Sometimes people who make their living in the public eye or as a performer, celebrity, etc. will jump ship and/or "switch things up" to attempt to stay viable.
Could be an enlightenment or epiphany that led him away from Christianity to Atheism.
IMO, if there's an interview with an artist in a case like this, what they state as reason for their actions may not be the genuine or underlying cause, keeping in mind many times keeping in the public eye is the most important goal, and ANY publicity is good publicity.
Here is the podcast, but it is long (almost an hour)
No. I don't believe that is God's voice, and I don't know any Christian that does. It's my own mind, as you say, talking to myself.
And no, Mr. Webb giving up the Christian life is, as John said in 1 John 2:19, evidence that he never was a Christian. I believe John over you, or Mr. Webb. Don't believe me, believe what God has said. I'm just a guy.
Stickin' to the "once saved always saved" thing by going with the "he was never saved in the first place". Good Baptist theology.
However it cracks me up that this is just another fundamental doctrinal question in the bible that is not answered by a "perfect" book.
It is indeed long. And he may be 'still searching'. may find his way back to some kind of Theism. maybe from 'spiritual' to seeing that is what humans do. I wish him well, whatever.
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