I recently met a wonderful man (in many respects) We had a couple of nice dates, but it’s just not going to work, ever.
We both feel such peace with each other and like each other’s company very much but although he was a Baptist preacher for 25 years, now he won’t go in a church at all. (that’s not even the problem)
He doesn’t believe in the Bible anymore. He holds his views as truth and everyone who believes in the Bible as unenlightened and wrong. His proof? He believes them, that’s it. There’s more, but that’s enough here.
I was SO disappointed.
That really is sad. I wonder what on earth happened to him to make him lose his faith. He needs prayer.
I don’t blame you for recognizing that it couldn’t work. I’d think it would be so painful, knowing that the man I cared about had rejected God.
I hope you’re doing well otherwise, Shimmer.
And he was a Baptist preacher?
Something happened...just like the guy who worked with Billy Graham and died still insisting Jesus didn’t rise from the dead.
Very sad.
I have known of ministers, too, who fell away. Paul, too, had fellow workers who abandoned the faith.
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