Jeremiah767
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My name Is Jeremiah, I was raised Christian, at the age of 13 I embraced it as my own, I was very active in the church, and participated in many church functions. At the age of 17, due to my logic first personality, I was forced to drop the religion, reasoning that the concept of Hell, was such a contradiction to the concept of a loving, and all powerful God, that I could no longer believe the words of the bible to be divine, and therefore I had to discontinue my connection with the church. Doing so brought about alot of hatred and people looked down on me, even in my own family. I continued to research other religions, hoping to find the truth for 8 months or so. Things got so bad at home, I ended up joining the army, reasoning that If there was no better a way to find god then to be able to reduced to life's most basic form(that and the fact that I always wanted to serve my country). The initial state of civilization(infantry) would surely bring about some incite into religion. I am not 19 years old and I am still an Agnostic, or to be more accurate, a simple theist, I believe there is a God, I know not the Name, Gender, Number(poly vs mono) of God, but I definitely believe there is a higher being that brought all of this into existence.
I've delved in a couple new age religions to include gnosticism but to get far in that religion required too much, there are certain things you can't do while in the Army. I tend to stay away from religions that follow any particular script/book/text as being divine which is why I havn't devled into any other abrahamic religions.
Anyway I'm just here for some interesting discussion. In all the spare time I have hear to devote to self education and entertainment, I would hate to come home thinking that I did absolutely nothing to learn about religion and philosophy.
Just one more thing to clarify, if you define agnostic as one who believes knowing is impossible then I am not an agnostic. I don't doubt people in other religions have spoken to God, I infact believe that I have spoken to him, but now its been so long its kind of hard to tell.
I've delved in a couple new age religions to include gnosticism but to get far in that religion required too much, there are certain things you can't do while in the Army. I tend to stay away from religions that follow any particular script/book/text as being divine which is why I havn't devled into any other abrahamic religions.
Anyway I'm just here for some interesting discussion. In all the spare time I have hear to devote to self education and entertainment, I would hate to come home thinking that I did absolutely nothing to learn about religion and philosophy.
Just one more thing to clarify, if you define agnostic as one who believes knowing is impossible then I am not an agnostic. I don't doubt people in other religions have spoken to God, I infact believe that I have spoken to him, but now its been so long its kind of hard to tell.
