Have your doctrinal beliefs ever had a dramatic change ?

Question

Have your doctrinal beliefs ever had a dramatic change ?

Answer 1

ditto what chuck said...

Answer 2

Raised Hardcore Catholic went Agnostic for a while, "shopped around" for a bit, and am currently Atheist with a dash of Satanic philosophy.  

Answer 3

Was a Jw now a free born again Messianic Believer

shalom

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!

Answer 4

Yes, and still changing... but that is evidently how it goes for many Ex Jehovah's Witnesses like myself. A constant pounding of Watchtower doctrine over the course of several years tends to scramble one's spirituality. The way things are looking now, I won't ever be viewed as a Christian until I join "mainstream" or "orthodox" Christianity which is steeped with doctrines that are as phony as the Watchtower's past prophesies!

I'm beginning to realize once again how little it matters how others view me compared to how God views me.  

Answer 5

I was a Jehovah's Witness who although I studied for meetings and even extra,I read my bible I kept coming across things in the bible that seemed to contradict their doctrine so I would try at first to resolve these issues .Then I had pneumonia 3 times in 1 yr and each time it landed me in a Catholic Hospital.I only had their bible in the end table next to me and so I would read it.The days were long and lonely and almost felt guilty when these sweet nuns would care for my every need

The mornings were started with prayer over the intercom system,praying for everyone there and their guidance in providing the best care.Well a priest came in my room to see if I would like to pray the Lords prayer with him.I refused an said no thank you I am a Jehovah's witness.proudly.He was still kind and loving and not at all shocked as I imagined and just said" then I will pray it for both of us" and bowed his head an prayed.I was expecting to be threatened with h**l and nothing but kindness.I was all prepared for a great witness and there was no opportunity.Anyway each time I would end up there I would be reading the bible and I would also read at home.Eventually I decided that I could no longer teach the doctrine of Jehovah's Witnesses because I no longer believed it.It took 12 years.I was so afraid of what would happen with my family and that I would loose them well that is exactly what happened but how could I teach others honestly when I read God's Word it did not teach this doctrine.?I would be unable to live with myself. So I was going no where and one day I saw a sign for a Messianic Synoguage and I have been there ever since.That was a very big  even dramatic change in doctrine.Yet it wasn't difficult because we studied directly from the bible.The bible simply said what it said and that was the end of the matter no long confuseing explinations like Jesus being raised in another body or Jesus having been Michael the archangel or why everyone cannot take the Lord's supper.or who the great crowd really is .or who the faithful and descreet slave is,why we must go door to door etc etc etc.Just read what it said(the bible) and do it .simple

Answer 6

Yes. I was raised agnostic and became a believer in a spiritual force at work in the universe.  

Answer 7

No.  I have only grown into deeper understanding of their application in my life.

Answer 8

As a former Jehovah's Witness i was convinced by them that only Jehovah's Witnesses had God's backing and everyone else were Satan's puppets!I believed that only Jehovah's Witnesses were living up to Christ's command to love our neighbour...love God with the whole heart,soul and mind.

Now i do not believe that to be true which to me is a dramatic change in my former doctrinal beliefs.

I have met many many non Witnesses who show more love to their neighbours than what i saw whilst a Jehovah's Witness.I have met many who also love God with their whole heart,soul and mind more than many of the Jehovah's Witnesses ever could.

Dramatic change in my beliefs indeed....all for the better!! :-)

Answer 9

Raised a Catholic from birth and began to hear the word of God from Full Gospel people...it was then that I began to see the light of so many things...Thanks to Jesus Christ and the leading of the Holy Spirit...the doctrines have dramatically changed my belief system...once I was blind but now through the grace of Christ, he is teaching me his ways , his mind and I am beginning to see all that he is truly about, Praise His Holy Name. As he searches my soul the transformation becomes more real and even more dramatic..that is as I become more aware of all the work that he must do within me until the day He calls me home...I am a work in progress!  God bless!

Answer 10

Real life has a way of opening your eyes

Answer 11

Well I had a change to returning to where I started from, which is Free Grace.

For some time, I fell into groups that claim to teach salvation by faith alone, but then they add a ton of things you must do to be saved, like "turn from your sins", or "commit to Christ", or "bear enough fruit", or whatever.  That's not faith alone!  That's works.

So the Lord moved me out of those groups, and back into Free Grace:  http://www.faithalone.org

Answer 12

"NEVER."

"I understood every word I read in the Holy Bible."

"I Listen to others, give an entire one-hour sermon

on just a couple of verses."

"I prefer to dissect Jesus CHRIST's parables and

the Book of Revelations."

"Everything 'IS WHAT IT SAYS'.  There is no such

compromise, or other interpretations.  Really, versions."

Answer 13

Extreme change.  I used to be a devout Catholic and I had too many questions that could not be answered.  I could not continue to practice something that I could not fully espouse.  I have deep respect for Catholics and people of all faiths.  I'm a theistic Buddhist now.

Answer 14

Former Muslim, now agnostic

Answer 15

Yes!  If we don't change, we aren't growing in the knowledge & wisdom of God.  If you "think" you know it all, then you are deceived.