Did you ever believe something when you were younger that you now realize is totally ridiculous?
For example, when I was young I read the scripture where Jesus says:
For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you. (Matt. 17:20)
After reading this scripture I spent ten minutes fervently praying to God that I would be able to fly. Needless to say, I only flew for about twenty seconds total, so I now see that I interpreted this verse wrongly.
I also used to believe that I had the talent to be in the NBA because I could dribble a basketball through my legs. Turns out I wasn’t as talented as I thought.
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Well, I used to believe that you were the coolest kid ever in church. But then you started hanging out with me in high school, which disabused that notion, and convinced me that none of us were cool.
I believed (after being told the Easter Bunny was not real) that my parents, who put flour in front of our doors that had “tracks” in it to convince us that the Easter Bunny had been there, actually grabbed our cats and walked them through it. No cats would ever put up with something like that.
Brandon – Just so the record is clear, I still am the coolest kid in the church. Don’t ever forget that.
My uncle always told me that left-handed people were more intelligent than right-handed people (we were both left-handed). I believe that to this day.
I was an atheist growing up so that pretty well sums up my life until I was 25.