In these last days, we see more and more people throwing away their Christian faith and converting to atheism.
From your average joe on the streets to celebrities to well-known/famous preachers, atheism seems to be gaining a lot of converts as time goes on.
This, obviously, gives many atheists reasons to rejoice. To them, another person has given up their fantasy world for reason... or so they think.
There are many atheists who describe themselves as ex-christians.
Some are even pastors of christian congregations.
The general population of Christians, on the other hand, will shake their heads wondering how someone could turn their back on God.
They will label those people as back-slidders, and request for prayers for that person to come back into the fold.
The problem is, however, that these people were never in the fold to begin with.
These people were never christians at any time.
Some people, atheist and christian alike, will take offense at that statement... but it's true none-the-less.
Some might even see it as an excuse or cop-out to pacify the minds of believers as to why so many are leaving christianity... but that isn't true either.
By definition, a christian is someone who has an intimate relationship with God.
We speak to God and He speaks to us.
To a christian, God is as real and personal to us as our own parents.
Now, for someone to live in a home with their parents who loves them, and claim that they have no parents, is either joking or a liar.
In other words, for someone to claim that they once had a relationship with God and now God doesn't exist is proof that they either never had a relationship with God in the first place (they were deceived) or they are lying.
The bible even gives us a number of examples on both sides.
During the trial of Christ Jesus, Simon Peter was asked 3 times if we was one of Jesus' disciples. He lied all 3 times and went so far as to say that he didn't know Him.
Here we have someone making they claim that they have no relationship with God in order to save their life, but they were lying.
Jesus tells us that on that day, many will come to Him saying 'Lord, Lord, have we not done this and that in your name', and Jesus will tell them that He never had a relationship with them.
So those who are being converted from christianity to atheism, were never christian to begin with.
If they insist that they were then they are lying to people by saying there is no God because they did have an actual relationship with the God they now claim doesn't exist.
