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Originally Posted by Michlow
Thank you for this.
I often use this example:
When you are born into an abusive dysfunctional family, your concept of "normal" and "healthy" behavior is skewed. When you are "born again" in an abusive "family" it is no different.
I have found in my interactions with others, is that those who had some contact with religion or God prior to the experiencing spiritual abuse find recovery a bit easier to separate the actions of one man, or one church, or one organization from that of the Lord.
Those whose only knowledge of God has come at the hands of the abusers have a lot more to overcome, for to them (and I am one), all of faith seems to be irretrievably intermeshed with the abuse.
see above.
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Same for me. When I got saved in my teens, the church was the only thing that existed for me. As my church experience soured I began to fundamentally question my beliefs and the whole idea of religion.
With all of my doubts and the pain I was going through I hit a spiritual bottom. Investigating the claims of atheism and of other beliefs, I wasn't satisfied with much I was reading or seeing. Then the thought came to me, "With all of your doubts, what if you gave God the benefit of the doubt?" I certainly had enough doubt to spare. It was about that time that things began to turn around for me.
I'd like to think that perhaps He had given me the benefit His doubt as well.
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