I recently saw this post on GS and it ticked me off. I don't want to embarrass the person so I'm not going to put their name. They claimed to be a christian but have now renounced it. What is sad is that this person has no idea what genuine historic christianity is. This was their post,

I always knew the bible contained violent content, but after looking at everything closely, I now know I can no longer consider myself a Christian.

Its not just about the violent content too. I always ask myself questions, like, who are Christians to decide that they're right, and they're the only right religion? Then I realized its the same for other religions, they all say the same thing. I realized its completely arbitrary, most of the time, you preach what you were born into.

I don't know who this person is or what church they attend or attended but they have no idea what historic christianity is.

1. There is no such thing as a former christian. 1 John 2 says,

19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

Why does John say this? Because he understands that salvation is a sovereign work of the Spirit (John 3:1-8 ). Once God, who is perfect, saves someone they stay saved (Phil. 1:6). I'll illustrate it like this. A man is scheduled to preach at a church but he doesn't show until the end of the service. When that pastor asks why he's late he says, "I'm sorry but my car got a flat and while I was changing the tire I was hit by a 2 ton semi going 75 mph. The pastor calls him a liar. The man responds, "Why would you call me a lair? How dare you!" The pastor responds, "You are a lair! It is impossible to have an encounter with a 2 ton semi and not have a scratch on you." What is the point of that story? The same applies to God. It is impossible to have an encounter with the Creator of heaven and earth and not be changed. This person was never saved to begin with. Growing up in a religious family does not make you a christian.

2. This person states they they looked at everything closely. I'll respond wit the link this person posted in the same post as proof that the bible isn't tre - evilbible.com. Notice that whoever did the site doesn't even have a basic understanding of what he or she is quoting. For proof look at this quote from evilbible,

It always amazes me how many times this God orders the killing of innocent people even after the Ten Commandments said "Thou shall not kill".

For those that are knowledgeable you understand how ridiculously ignorant this quote is. Look up the hebrew word for kill in Exodus 20-21. That is enough to show the stupidity of this quote. My main point though is that this person is lazy. They didn't do any research at all. When one knows this little about historic christianity it is no wonder they were duped by the ignorance of evilbible.com.

3. The hypocrisy is oozing from this person's post. They complain about the violence in the bible yet their avatar depicted a woman with blood oozing down her face with her hair soaked in blood.

I hope those that read this post will take things more seriously than this person did. They were in no way a christian. Calling yourself one does not make you one.