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Michlow, did you consider that when you departed from "the faith" after being disillusioned with what claimed to give you the peace and abundant life you desired, did you stop to think you were handed a false version and try to search the Word yourself to find the true? Or did you abandon all attempts?

I think of how Mormons and JW's are so brainwashed about their cult being the only real church in the world, that when people are disillusioned and leave they will not dare check another church out since they still retain that derogatory note about all other churches.

It seems so many are classic examples of this: 2Pe 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

The way of truth is never really dealt with after some are disillusioned with error, since they think that if what they were involved with was not true, then there can be no other true version. But if what they were in was error and a false version of the true, the true way is never attempted.