Hello Dave, I stumbled upon your site today and have read much of its contents with interest. I think God wanted me to put off registering my Website to pursue your site. I'm 41 now and was saved at about 15. I'm currently about half-way through my one-year bible as this is nearly July. I don't have your extensive background, but have been in and out of church since junior-high. You may find it interesting that I am dismayed at what I read in the old testament. How can a God of love, incapable of evil, do such things? Today I am reading in 1 Kings 20--21 where God spoke through a prophet to Ahab the then King of Israel, verse 20:42: "This is what the LORD says: Because you have spared the man I said must be destroyed, now you must die instead of his people." From the prophet Elijah to Ahab, verse 21:20: "The LORD is going to bring disaster to you and sweep you away. He will not let a single one of your male descendants, slave or free alike, survive in Israel!...

From: Will Smith [mailto:areo50ad@mindspring.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 6:28 PM Greetings. I just found your site and read your anti-testimony, as well as the testimonies of many others on your site. I am still a Christian, but have gone through much of what you yourself have, and I can say that I, too, have "lost my original faith", just not quite the same way you did. I was raised in an Independent Baptist Church (which means to the right of Southern Baptists) and also spent much time reading Seventh Day Adventist literature. I believed that the 1611 King James Bible was the "infallible, inerrant word of God" and that anyone who didn't believe so was going to hell. Furthermore, we were saved by faith, not works. The services were dry and booring. Jesus was always portrayed as one having and showing no emotion. I was told that the earth was made in six days and that the earth was only six-thousand years old. The church I went to had four barren walls a...

Dave, I have read so much of your experiences and beliefs I feel I have known you for ages. I admire your sharp mind and your grasp of the English language which I can not claim with my 9th grade education but when you write about reason I can only think that you reason much differently than I do. I too have so much trouble believing everything in the bible but why should we stop believing there is a god (a creator} just because we don't except a book that claims it's from him ? I look at the world we live in and the universe around us,the order of things such as being able to tell the height of the tide at any given time and place,the rising of the sun and the moon etc. and then I cannot comprehend any one thinking all this came about at random ! for example throw a pile of timber into a lot and watch a house build itself, or mix a quantity of ingredients in a large bowl and sit back and wait for a cake or anything else for that matter to develop and it will never happe...