Is it normal that i'm an atheistic christian?
I am a practical person. I'm extremely young, just starting college, but I am a genius and bipolar... so I can't quite get by on "faith". It just doesn't cut it for me. Sorry!
I've grown up with an incredible, supportive family and friends. My parents were missionaries and have led churches all my life and I'm at a church that really reads the bible and follows through with what's in there, living their faith out loud and leading fulfilling lives.
But... I just... it's hard. Half of me loves God and knows no reason without Him.
But... how prideful, how ignorant, how STUPID for one human being, one ignorant, little human being to say they know it all. How could we POSSIBLY know the meaning of life? If there was a God out there, why would He EVER expect us to know?
There are many, many belief systems out there. One of them is apparently right. There are so many people out there who are earnestly trying with all their might to live a good life and please whatever God they believe in. Christianity says they're all wrong if they aren't sure of "the truth".
How is following exactly what you're told "faith"? People are taught so many things. If I'd grown up in a muslim background, I could be the perfect muslim right now.
It just does NOT make sense that this God would expect us to believe one specific idea. There's so much out there. We're only human.
Yet, the times that I've left it up to God... things really have worked out in my life. Things really do fall into place. My life and others who live for God are testimony to that. (This is specifically living a life specifically by the bible. I have MANY problems with hypocritical, organized religion.)
I'm just so sick of being torn like this all the time. Sometimes I think I'm two different people or something.
I know there's a huge atheist vs. christian argument. I don't think it leads anywhere.
Yet I fight with myself.