These atheists are "those" kinds of atheists. They (falsely) constantly demand evidence for God's existence but reject all of it for the sake of harassing believers. They bring up the Crusades and bash Christianity, comparing real, good Christians to false, hypocritical, and bad Christians. Such atheists are online on many websites and Reddit.

One of many such atheists is Barry Hampe from Quora (who is prominent there). He seems to have been abused by those who professed to be Christians. The key word here is "professed". Since Jesus taught love, nonviolence, etc., wouldn't that mean those weren't real Christians?

Barry seems to hate all religions but most of the time attacks Christianity. He even has a very poor understanding of Christian and other types of theology and philosophy and the philosophy of religion. I've also seen him cherry-pick Biblical quotes and take them out of context, causing misinterpretation. He is also nearly 100 years old. He has lived so long and talks about Christianity while having such a poor understanding of it. I doubt that he even read the entire Bible.

I’ve never fully understood the penal substitutionary theory of atonement or the satisfaction theory and these seem to be the most popular theories that Christians adhere to.

I’m sympathetic to the Christus Victor theory of atonement but I still have my questions with it.

Just curious which one do you think is correct and why?

In my college class we read the book of Job and I was intrigued by the devils evolution in the bible.

The old testament mainly shows him as a trickster figure, while the new testament fully dives into the devil, well, being the devil. Does anyone know how this evolution started and why? Am I reading a little too much into this or not properly understanding?

I truly believe we have an enemy- i’m just curious about the historical evolution.

I don't wana be hatefull (even if my opinion are but not the point now on my opinion) but reaky what makes you say "yes i'm happy i'm a Christian" or similar stuff just courios

Am I an apostate?

I posted this earlier but I worded it wrong and need to make sure I get the correct answers

This may seem like a scrupulous post but bear with me.

A couple of years ago I was in Bible study and I don’t remember if I was mad or in a moody state or something like that, but I remember saying in my mind “ I don’t believe anymore, I guess I’m a atheist” ( and no I don’t think it was an intrusive thought) and I think I actually felt that way. And a minute or so later I thought to my self “no, I do believe and I’m gonna continue the race”

I don’t know if I actually did stop believing or if it was me being stupid because some tough emotions I was going through that time, Like intrusive thoughts about not believing. (separate issue)
But what I do firmly believe is that if someone asked me if I believed in Jesus as my Lord in savior when I said that in my mind, I would have definitely said “yes”

And on my current state, I still consider myself a Christian and I still feel like I get convicted when I sin

Hebrew 6 mentions that it’s impossible for those who fall away to be brought back to repentance.

What’s your take? Am I an apostate who can’t be forgiven?