How Pursuing Entrepreneurship Caused Me to Leave Christianity

[@SavannahLewie]

Your calling is simply to be loved by God, to be the beautiful daughter of God that you are, and to love your sweet family and those around you. The god of this world is Satan and he is the one who promises to give us the world, but we lose our soul in the process. I used to be caught up in prosperity gospel which very similarly mixes new age/manifestation with Christianity. But if you want to know who the one true God is, read about the life of Christ in the gospels and it will be very clear. His one purpose and our one purpose is to be Love. At the end of your life you won’t wish you had more success in your career. You’ll wish you loved more and knew your Creator and we will all stand before Him and give an account for our lives. I’m not sure how this video popped on my feed, but I pray you come to know the true Jesus. ❤️🙏 Much love.

[@Goldensoul413]

I agree 100% with this comment. Praying for you as well ❤️

[@BriannaWeldon]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. What is knowing Christ to you? What is being love to you?

[@SavannahLewie]

@@BriannaWeldon​​⁠Knowing Christ to me is receiving what He has done for me by removing my sins and giving me new life. I now live a life of obedience to Christ. I respond to that by repenting from my old sinful ways and desires (the desires of heart that are deceitful above all else (Jeremiah 17:9). I now live my life not for my sake, but for His sake. I deny myself and follow Him. Being Love is living like Christ lived on the earth and He is my example. Romans 6 explains how we have been set FREE from sin once and for all so we can walk in newness of life. I now live dead to sin and alive to righteousness. As a result, I no longer am bitter towards those who have wronged me, I don’t hold unforgiveness in my heart, I don’t seek my own good but the good of others. I consider others more valuable than myself. I lay down my life and my preferences. I show mercy, forgiveness, not holding other peoples’ sins against them. I’m delivered from sexual sin, lust, self-centeredness, and anger. I have peace in my heart and joy that doesn’t make sense even when times are hard. I don’t need my circumstances to change for me to be okay. The hope He gives me is that no matter what happens in this life, good or bad, I don’t have to be moved because my hope is in Christ and the Truth of the Word who never changes. My perspective is only on things that are eternal. Everything else will fade away. The only thing that remains and matters is if we were loved by God our Creator and if in turn, we loved others as a result. ❤ God loves you! 🙏 He has been poorly represented in many ways through Christianity and churches. I apologize if anyone claiming to know Christ has wrongly represented Him to you. God doesn’t promise life will be glamorous or easy. In fact He promises it will be difficult and that now is our time of grief. But the hope He gives us is that we can have peace and joy in our souls because on our best day or our worst day, He is alive, He is with us, we are loved by the God of the universe, and we have look forward to eternity with Him. 🙏❤️

[@BriannaWeldon]

@@SavannahLewie I’m glad you feel freed by your experience. What might be the reason you would expect I don’t experience those same positive or morally superior qualities and behaviors?

[@SavannahLewie]

@@BriannaWeldon All I know is I tried everything before and could never be free on my own. And the only way to walk in true holiness and freedom from sin is through the power of the Holy Spirit living within me. Blessings! ❤️

[@queenaminalivingabundantly4320]

Being a Christian is simply being a disciple of Christ. Just like you’re from Russia and you’re called Russian. Please try to cultivate a relationship not just measuring if you read 20 chapters of the Bible. Join a Bible believing church. Start from where you are. There are Christian entrepreneurs. You cannot build a personal relationship with a God you don’t know. Think about a time He came through for you and start there. I have a lot to say. But I will pray that God will do beyond what’s been spoken here. Have a blessed day

[@BriannaWeldon]

I have a relationship with the Source entity of creation, not the biblical God of Yahweh. So yes, The Source of Creation continues to create through me and around me. Yahweh does not. I don’t want to have a relationship with Yahweh. You believe Yahweh is the creator of the universe. I do not.

[@queenaminalivingabundantly4320]

@@BriannaWeldon this ‘source’ how do you know it loves you, what sacrifice has it done for you. Jesus died so I can have a relationship with God the Father. He sacrificed his life for all men because the wages of sin is death and man has a sin nature that cut short our relationship with God. that’s why we have to be born again (spiritually). Your source has a name, has a personality and wants a relationship with you. His name is Yahweh of the Bible. I’m not forcing Him on you. It’s a choice but I’m committed out of love to share with you and others especially after you invited us based off your video. Thank you

[@BriannaWeldon]

@@queenaminalivingabundantly4320 I can see your heart and intention. I like sharing my journey to help expand thought around religion. I think some of my ideas would have helped me when I was a Christian and trying to build relationships or to just have a more grounded understanding of what I believed. I don’t believe the creator has a personality. I think that’s what humans have projected onto “god” because that’s what we can relate to. I don’t believe there has to be a sacrifice. Why? Only because that’s what the Bible says, but if the Bible didn’t say it, what would make it necessary? I don’t believe humans are inherently evil and sinful and need to be redeemed. I think most of what Christians/I as a Christian believed is because that’s what we were told by the Bible. It wouldn’t be obvious in any other context. This perspective comes from learning about cults and how they always have some sort of theological problem to be solved. Sometimes it’s that the participant has to pay money to reach another level, and for Warren Jeffs it was that a man needed to have three wives to get into heaven. I have also learned about how some parts of the Bible were obviously influenced by other literary or philosophical works and not the other way around. That causes me to look at the text more soberly, I think.

[@queenaminalivingabundantly4320]

@@BriannaWeldon it is true I speak from the Bible but I wasn’t born this way. I am ex Muslim and had a different set of beliefs. That’s why I am confident in what I believe now. If the creator doesn’t have a personality then you can’t say you are in it and it’s creating through you. It’s not something humans projected it’s just what it is. The reason there was a human sacrifice is that that’s the way to show He truly loves you and wants a relationship with you which sin cut us from. Other religions sacrifice one thing or the other as well. It’s not a Christian concept it’s a religious one. You may not believe humans are evil, that’s fine but it doesn’t explain our world today. Our present world which is a product of human existence is in a terrible state. Even the ‘best’ of us can do evil things in certain situations. We can only overcome this sin nature by believing in the sacrifice of Jesus. There are many concepts that even without a Bible we can see from our natural world. Like the Concept of God as our Father. These concepts are not from a cult system. The thing you mentioned with crystal and numbers all these are even actually the inventions of the cult. It is clear from the Bible, Christian don’t worship or consult anyone aside God not even the Sun, moon, numbers, crystals etc. About the efficacy of the Bible, it’s true a lot has been said about it’s origins but it doesn’t change anything about the word of God in the Bible itself. The God of the Bible is true. Our relationship with God is one of faith or simply put trust. Even in human relationships, it as you relate and trust each other you discover more about yourself. No one knows the purpose of a thing except the manufacturer. God in His wisdom shows you as you trust Him what you need to keep going. Whether He shows you immediately or not is not the question, it’s who you are that’s most important. If you can please pray and ask God to show you how to relate with Him genuinely, you’ll be surprised.

[@queenaminalivingabundantly4320]

Jesus is the only way to God. He died for the whole world not some of us. I understand what you mean about not having a clear view of your purpose but I think you have confused purpose with livelihood. The Bible says whatever your hands finds to do , do it well. Explore your gifts, talents and experiences to create a means of livelihood. But as for purpose it is to seek out a relationship with God. In relating with God He begins to unfold our lives page by page and chapter by chapter. Please don’t try to read the whole Bible at a go. Start from New Testament and don’t just read, ask questions. May God grant us an understanding heart about His purpose for our lives.

[@BriannaWeldon]

This is the problem: I didn’t want a vague sense of purpose/livelihood. “Seeking out a relationship with God” through the means I mentioned when I was talking about my twenties wasn’t giving me clarity. Learning other concepts and tools did, especially learning to use my intuition. Who I was created to be is important to me. Being told I’m just here to know God feels depersonalizing. Can I be meant to know God AND do something else specific? And I believe I’m always connected to my Creator just as my kids are always connected to me. That feels really good and freeing. I can’t find my way out of unconditional love, which makes me just want to stay and deepen my connection. Like you, there’s so much more I could explain, but I hadn’t planned on getting into the nitty gritty on this channel, but maybe I will. It’s a matter of thought process and paradigm shifts because there was a time I would have said the same things to people you are saying to me. And there was a time I couldn’t fathom not being a Christian. My college boyfriend told me that in five years either I wouldn’t be a Christian or he would be a Christian again. I just couldn’t see me being the one to change. It’s all happened in layers and through deconstructing various concepts so I don’t expect you to be able to see it from my point of view. I know your comments came from a place of concern and worship.

[@Jpjko]

So sad that you have left Christ and turned to another way. May GOD ALMIGHTY draw you back to him with grace and mercy. He is a GOD of Love and is gracious. Remember, the first letter in Idolatry is I.

[@BriannaWeldon]

@@Jpjko I think worship is a religious concept. I didn’t go from worshipping Yahweh to worshipping some other entity. I just live my life with freedom from having to perform for or give credit to anything. That said, I know my help comes from the Creator, God, Source. I don’t believe that is Yahweh or named god of any other religion, and therefore I’m not required to do anything other than learn my lessons and grow.