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Philosophy Professor Turns To Jesus After Being An Atheist For 25 Years

by Christa January 12, 2023

written by Christa

Dr. John Wise, a philosophy professor also known as “The Christian Atheist,” shares his story of how he found God after 25 years of atheism.

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In the first part of the interview with Justin Brierley from UnApologetic, John shared how he got to turn back to God after believing He did not exist at all.

John revealed that he grew up with an Evangelical Christian mom who led him to Christ. After graduating high school, he decided to enter Bible College because he initially wanted to be a pastor. There, he met his first wife.

But, in those moments, he started to have questions about God. He realized that he was only performing something that he could not justify. So, he studied apologetics looking for answers.

But, it became clearer to him that he could not defend it well despite being an evangelistic leader in the Bible College. Not to mention the evangelism and mission trips he underwent.

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Then, he started to study philosophy. And it took him away from his Christian roots.

After graduating from Bible College, he decided to become agnostic while being married to a Christian woman. He stopped wanting to become a pastor and instead continued his philosophy career.

Eventually, John became an atheist as, one day, he believed that there was no God.

But, what he also discovered in his philosophy study, became one of the contributing factors that led him back to God.

As he studied the works of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, Sartre claimed that atheism was faith. This was a mind-blowing experience for John, who believed that atheism is a lack of belief in anything.

As John contemplated, he realized that he had to agree with Sartre. He said, “Faith is the basis of everything human beings do and that rationality needs to find its proper niche in our role in life.”

His claim is even supported by philosopher Immanuel Kant who said, “I had to limit the pretensions of reason to make room for faith.”

The philosophers’ works helped John to return to the much greater faith.

Listen to his interview more in the video below.

John Wise: How a philosophy professor found God after 25 years of atheism • Unapologetic 1/2

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January 12, 2023 0 comment

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‘Ad Astra’ Star Brad Pitt Reveals Transformation From Atheism To Christianity

by GOD TV October 4, 2019

written by GOD TV

The “Ad Astra” star Brad Pitt, talks about his transformation from atheism to Christianity in an interview.

Brad Pitt

William Bradley Pitt (popularly known as Brad Pitt) has been an American actor and film producer for over three decades. The award-winning actor was cited as the world’s most attractive man by media outlets for a number of years.

Brad was born in Oklahoma into a conservative Christian household and was raised as Southern Baptist. But the iconic star later oscillated toward agnostic and atheism.

“I grew up with Christianity. Always questioned it, but it worked at times. And then when I got on my own, I completely left it and I called myself agnostic. Tried a few spiritual things but didn’t feel right. Then I called myself an atheist for a while, just kind of being rebellious. I wasn’t really. But I kinda labeled myself that for a while. It felt punk rock enough,” Brad said in an interview for his new movie.

“I cling to religion”

He then revealed that he’s coming back his Christian roots.

“Oh, man, I’ve gone through everything. Like, I cling to religion,” Brad added. “Then I found myself coming back around to just belief in-I hate to use the word spirituality, but just a belief in that we’re all connected.”

In 2017, Brad opened up about his Christian upbringing.

He said that he grew up in a family that attended a Baptist church and described it as the “cleaner, stricter, by-the-book Christianity”.

But when he was in high school his parents joined a “more charismatic movement which got into speaking in tongues and raising your hands”.

While he gave a negative approach to his parent’s faith, Brad gave some sort validation to speaking in tongues saying: “I know they believe it. I know they’re releasing something. God, we’re complicated.”

Recently, Brad was seen with Kanye West, who has also recently shared about his Christianity, at a Sunday Service.

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As more celebrities come to Christ, revival is brewing in the entertainment industry. May these celebrities and their influence be used for the glory of God!

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This article was written by Gail Marvel.

October 4, 2019 0 comment

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Sir Anthony Hopkins Reveals his Journey From Atheist to Believer in God

by GOD TV August 7, 2018

written by GOD TV

Sir Anthony Hopkins recently spoke about his belief in God, at the 11th annual LEAP Conference in July. He was a well-known atheist and alcoholic for many years. However, in 1975 he went to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting where a lady asked him: “Why don’t you just trust in God?”

This question intrigued him so much that he started a personal soul search. He was saying that from the point, his insatiable desire for alcohol vanished. He has been on a spiritual quest since while acting and winning Academy Awards throughout his career.

According to ABC News, while discussing his movie role of Methusaleh in Noah, Hopkins said that the older he gets, the more he falls deeper into belief. Hopkins said, “I feel every day, as I get older, anyway, that it’s all a miracle…I mean, my heart beats, my lungs breathe. That is an extraordinary — an extraordinary phenomenon.”

Hopkins has also said, “I was hell-bent on destruction,” he recalled. “It was like being possessed by a demon, an addiction, and I couldn’t stop. And there are millions of people around like that. I could not stop, but I just asked for a little bit of help and suddenly, pow. It was just like, bingo.”

In an article in 2011, Hopkins was noted as saying he, couldn’t live with being an atheist. “It must be like living in a closed cell with no windows!”

He said, “I’d hate to have to live like that, wouldn’t you? We see them, mind you, on television today, many brilliant people who are professional atheists who say they know for a fact that it’s insanity to have a God or to believe in religion.

Being an atheist must be like living in a closed cell with no windows!

“Well, okay, God bless them for feeling that way and I hope they’re happy… But I couldn’t live with that certainty, and I wonder about some of them: why are they protesting so much? How are they so sure of what is out there? And who am I to refute the beliefs of so many great philosophers and martyrs all the way down the years?”

Billy Hallowell wrote in a Pureflix article, that Hopkins also discussed the topics of money and success at the LEAP Conference. He said, “If you chase the money, it’s not gonna work. And if you chase success, it’s not gonna work…You just have to chase whatever you want to be, but live it as if it is happening now. Act as if you’re already there, and it’ll fall into place.”

This article was written by Jared Laskey

August 7, 2018 3 comments