tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311866782238301722024-03-08T12:36:15.679-08:00Leaving Adventismretephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00940426843455194661noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731186678223830172.post-63255896830466641442015-01-11T18:19:00.001-08:002015-01-11T18:19:31.970-08:00Jason Caryl<div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">
Hello everyone, i was accepted into this group a year ago. But i have been silent until now. <br />
I was raised very strict SDA. I attended SDA school, attended
pathfinders, attended Daniel and Revelations seminars, camp meetings, no
television, vegan. <br />
When i was young, we ate only two meals a
day (I still can't find out where this teaching originated, but I
believe it came out of weimar Institute?)<br />
I read many of EGWs writings: the great controversy, messages to young people, steps to christ and more. <br />
I was asked to give my first adult sabbath school lesson at 12. I wanted to attend walla walla college and enter the ministry. <br />
I left the SDA church at 16 after reading some of the churches earlier
writings and a book called "the white lie", but i didn't leave
Christianity until I was 30. <br />
I went from church to church,
studying their doctrines and origin and biblical theology. ... The story
was always the same, 1) very rarely did I find even a pastor who knew
their bible as well as i did (yes I had a size L ego) and 2) The Sabbath
haunted me. <br />
I was baptized half a dozen times, married a Mormon
for which I was baptized again, converted to evangelical "born again"
Christianity and entered the ministry as a cult evangelist (evangelizing
to mornings, jws, sda's etc). <br />
I left the ministry in 2005 after
I went to my associate and senior pastors with biblical problems and I
was told to be "careful".<br />
I self studied, determined to read
through my bible from gen to rev and journal my way either back to god
or straight to hell, at that point I didn't care which as long as I had
asked/answered every question honestly. <br />
Today, I'm an evangelical atheist humanist. I work with <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FRecoveryfromreligion.org%2F&h=UAQH2E9Sn&enc=AZPRkZ2yb0MUkZrSzFHdJaAiDU2JBaOZ90G_Qx8zRO-iUF4K2d7oWqVhnd2RhF39nOuSL3o9Qdh1YPObg57Vs695TU_Jgv3Mb5C35seSBqkt_zjBqppZde5OAZUEjVP7oMgHkzZHYm-hiodkFinK9MbZ&s=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Recoveryfromreligion.org</a> and am organizing a local chapter of Sunday Assembly in my area. <br />
That's the short version of my story. .....</div>
retephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00940426843455194661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731186678223830172.post-42031186962174828782015-01-11T18:13:00.002-08:002015-01-11T18:14:41.935-08:00Peter Veitch<a href="https://www.facebook.com/PPTAPAGE/photos/a.431028163593873.113376.383736818323008/985939794769371/?type=1">Post</a> by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PPTAPAGE">Personal Pathways to Atheism</a>.retephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00940426843455194661noreply@blogger.com0