Originally Posted by deist
I have been many things in my search for meaning; buddhist, taoist, ,wiccan, agnostic, & atheist. Before that I was a bible believing christian for more than 27 years. I believed in the bible with all my heart & lived for Jesus. But in all that 27 years I never had one prayer answered, out of literally thousands of prayers, hundreds of which,statistically speaking, had to be within the will of God as revealed in the bible. And we know what John said about those who ask according to the will of God; they'd get what they asked for. Yet none of my prayers were answered. Then I happened upon deism, & having studied it, I saw that reality as it really is, & not what I wanted it to be, lined up more with the teachings of deism than the teachings of the bible. So now I am a deist, & a deist to stay. Deism answers all the questions for me that the bible couldn't. I believe my search for meaning is finally over.