Psalms5522:


The third cause of this rise is the band wagon effect. A sizable number of people who identify as atheist do so because they think it's the cool thing to do, others feel it makes you look or feel intelligent. “This group sha una funny”

kingxsamz:


Biko, how did you come up with this conclusion?
Or did you just think of it while making your writeup?
I don't think your statement is correct.
If one becomes an atheist, it's simply because he /she has come to an agreement or conclusion that there is no God.
Saying most Atheists became Atheists just to look cool or sound intelligent is totally off point and in no way related to Atheism.

paxonel:
Ignorance of Christians which arises from pre -conceived man made doctrines.

For instance, man made doctrines which dominated among Christians that the earth was flat in shape was proven wrong, as a result many Christians became atheists.

Other baseless man made doctrines like rapture, end time, Antichrist, Armageddon, mark of the beast or 666 etc which promote fear among Christians and impair their minds to be productively engaged in this world are the major causes of the rise of atheism this modern day.

The question is, when will Christians start getting it right?

paxonel:
Ignorance of Christians which arises from pre -conceived man made doctrines.

For instance, man made doctrines which dominated among Christians that the earth was flat in shape was proven wrong, as a result many Christians became atheists.

Other baseless man made doctrines like rapture, end time, Antichrist, Armageddon, mark of the beast or 666 etc which promote fear among Christians and impair their minds to be productively engaged in this world are the major causes of the rise of atheism this modern day.

The question is, when will Christians start getting it right?

Psalms5522:


I like that word "man made doctrines" this brings to my mind the last question in the article "are we missing the human factor?"

malvisguy212:
so man made doctrine drove you to atheism?

paxonel:
did i say I'm an atheists?

paxonel:
certainly, we are ignoring the human factor.
We know the human factor exist, but because that inherent nature of Christians to give humans the undue reverence where it is not warranted by upholding their doctrines even when these doctrines are not scriptural, we tend to always see these false doctrines when we read scriptures and that is very dangerous to Christianity.

I can tell you that there are scriptures that seems to indicate that the earth is flat, but because of human factor(assuming it wasn't proven otherwise) people will believe what i have said that the earth is flat because that is what i saw in the scripture.

But unknown to them i am having a very wrong conception of that scripture.

This is how a lot of doctrines we believe today in Christianity was developed many years ago.

Examples of these kinda doctrines are rapture, end time, mark of the beast, end of the world.

Now, you see the effect of this kind of beliefs to a pastor like pastor Chris oyakhilome?
The belief of these fictious doctrines have made him look like a very confused person today going by his recent opion about 5G technology and covid-19

Psalms5522:

Am sorry bro I didn't say most but I tried to chose the word carefully "a sizable number" if I had used the word "most" it would have been an inaccurate statement.
Thanks

spartan117:

Is the rapture of the church,

the second coming of Christ

and the anti Christ scriptural?

OtemAtum:
And many people are driven to atheism when the gods presented to them as God Almighty appear less intelligent, less tolerant, less disciplined, more stupid, more powerless etc than the humans themselves. For example, the foolishness of Jehovah and Allah as written in their books will make any sane person want to quit religion.

I opened a thread to discuss how PRESENTING JEHOVAH AS GOD ALMIGHTY has driven many Christians to atheism.

https://www.nairaland.com/5766306/how-presenting-jehovah-god-driven

FOLYKAZE:
Many bother their minds with the existence of a being, personal or impersonal, called God even when we do not understand what God is, or the nature of existence itself. It's more about knowing oneself, the Yoruba spirituality call it 'Ori', and emphatically express that the self is an arch divinity, and should be acknowledged. That acknowledgement makes one GOD. Know thy self and you will become a God. I am a God, a concious living divinity, eternal and exist.

I choose to identify myself as a spiritual atheist. A spiritual atheist, unlike traditional atheist, tends to redefine God as a form of natural energies, and discard all form of superficial attachment by religious establishment.

Permit me to bring it down a little. Everyone would think Sango is a fiery man breathing fire. I see Sango as a personification of electrical energy.

Lady Justice is a representation of Law/order. Atheist might lock out idea of worshipping Lady Justice, and even deny it exist in reality. But she does...as legality. Would atheist deny existence of Lady justice after knowing there is law in the society?

Therefore, instead of debating the existence of God, understanding the nature of existence and God is vital.

What exist? What is God?

paxonel:
certainly, we are ignoring the human factor.
We know the human factor exist, but because that inherent nature of Christians to give humans the undue reverence where it is not warranted by upholding their doctrines even when these doctrines are not scriptural, we tend to always see these false doctrines when we read scriptures and that is very dangerous to Christianity.

I can tell you that there are scriptures that seems to indicate that the earth is flat, but because of human factor(assuming it wasn't proven otherwise) people will believe what i have said that the earth is flat because that is what i saw in the scripture.

But unknown to them i am having a very wrong conception of that scripture.

This is how a lot of doctrines we believe today in Christianity was developed many years ago.

Examples of these kinda doctrines are rapture, end time, mark of the beast, end of the world.

Now, you see the effect of this kind of beliefs to a pastor like pastor Chris oyakhilome?
The belief of these fictious doctrines have made him look like a very confused person today going by his recent opion about 5G technology and covid-19

paxonel:
there is no where rapture was mentioned in the bible.
yes, this one is scriptural. But it doesn't mean the end of the world.
Now, look at this fascinating revelation.

Revelation 21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the KINGS OF THE EARTH do bring their glory and honour into it.

One may ask, how does the king of the earth do bring their glory into God's kingdom?
Do they climb ladder to the clouds in access to God's kingdom?

These are questions those who claim there will be rapture and end of this world need to answer
Antichrist is anyone denying Christ by kicking against Christ and Christianity. For instance, people who persecute early Christians in the bible were antichrists. 1 John 2:22
So there is nothing new about Antichrist,they are just mere humans like me and you.

paxonel:
there is no where rapture was mentioned in the bible.
yes, this one is scriptural. But it doesn't mean the end of the world.
Now, look at this fascinating revelation.

Revelation 21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the KINGS OF THE EARTH do bring their glory and honour into it.

One may ask, how does the king of the earth do bring their glory into God's kingdom?
Do they climb ladder to the clouds in access to God's kingdom?

These are questions those who claim there will be rapture and end of this world need to answer
Antichrist is anyone denying Christ by kicking against Christ and Christianity. For instance, people who persecute early Christians in the bible were antichrists. 1 John 2:22
So there is nothing new about Antichrist,they are just mere humans like me and you.

Maximus69:
According to God's word, ATHEISM will soon overthrow all the religions on planet earth excluding just one, and that's the one and only group of worshipers of the TRUE God!

The time is short now!

I've been making this known to many atheists on Nairaland, telling them that their group will soon take over the world power and declare war on religion!

That time is now coming faster even than i expected!

All religionists should be prepared for the worst, because this seemingly permissive ATHEISTS will come out like locusts against religion, it will remain only one group of worshipers, it's when they try to attack this one and only TRUE Christians that God will act to destroy all of them including those who failed to take their stand with God!

Maximus69:


To fully grasp the meaning of AntiChrist, you need to know

Who is Christ?
What was his mission?
Who are his followers?
How are they operating?

That's when you can easily recognize the AntiChrist!

Because the Bible is spiritual and you need God's holy spirit to perfectly grasp the Bible's message!

The AntiChrist began amongst the first century Christians, gradually Satan started sowing his own evil seeds amongst them {Matthew 13:24-30} but they can't progress amongst the first century Christians because the Apostles were still very much around! 1John 2:18-19
So they left the gathering of TRUE Christians to form alliance with the Roman authority so after Constantine has given them power, they turned against the rest of TRUE Christians who were trying to keep up with the teachings of Jesus' Apostles, the pressure was so intense that all those who knew the way Christianity was established were silenced. That was how the seeds of Satan formed a religion that bears the name of Jesus but with a totally contrary mission.

The name of the AntiChrist is Roman Catholic Church!

Everything that Jesus taught was turned away and replaced with Pagan Roman philosophies and festivities!

spartan117:

Concerning rapture what's your understanding of this scripture?
1 Thessalonians 4:15
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
4:16
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
4:17
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Concerning the anti Christ this scripture seems to depict that the anti Christ is a spirit that gains expression through men. Don't you think?

1 John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

Psalms5522:

That is why there is a need for one to ask questions and study the Bible to see if what was presented as Scriptural is really Scriptural. But you see a popular adage that says if you want to hid something from man put it in a book some times applies to us (me included) we don't read we don't meditate on what we read we just look for already made explanations.

Farki:


Atheism is not a religion

paxonel:
that one is your own conception, you can't get people to believe this trash

I will advice you to simply discard it and focus on what scriptures says about the Antichrist