Jon Steingard, lead singer of the Christian rock band Hawk Nelson, regretfully announced on Instagram last week that he no longer believes in God.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUHBPRgg5Gs

“I’ve been terrified to post this for a while – but it feels like it’s time for me to be honest,” Steingard said in the caption prefacing his lengthy Instagram post. “I hope this is not the end of the conversation, but the beginning. I hope this is encouraging to people who might feel the same but are as afraid to speak as I am. I want to be open. I want to be transparent with you all – and also open to having my heart changed in the future. I am not looking for a debate at all – just a chance to share my story in the hopes some good can come from it. I love you all.”

According to Steingard, he always had an inherent problem with Evangelical Christian culture, even as a child growing up in a pastor’s home, which then blossomed into a problem with the Bible itself as he grew into adulthood.


“I remember being uncomfortable with certain things,” he said in his youth. “Praying in public always felt like some kind of weird performance art. Emotional cries such as ‘Holy Spirit come fill this place’ always felt clunky and awkward leaving my lips. A youth conference I attended encouraged every team to sign a pledge that they would ‘date Jesus’ for a year. It felt manipulative and unsettling to me. I didn’t sign it.”

Despite those concerns in his youth, he still ended up pursuing music and genuinely found some peace with the band Hawk Nelson. However, as time grew on, Steingard increasingly had trouble with the concept of evil.


“If God is all loving, and all powerful, why is there evil in the world? Can you not do anything about it? Does he choose not to? Is the evil in the world a result of his desire to give us free will? OK then what about famine and disease and floods and all the suffering that isn’t caused by humans in our free will? If God is loving, why does he send people to hell?” were all questions that plagued him.

Steingard then attacked what he felt were contradictions between the Old and New Testaments.


“Why does God seem so pissed off in most of the old testament, and then all of a sudden he’s a loving father in the New Testament? Why does he say not to kill, but then instruct Israel to turn around and kill men women and children to take the promised land? Why does God let Job suffer horrible things just to win a bet with Satan? What does he tell Abraham to kill his son and then basically say ‘just kidding! That was a test.’ If God can do anything, can’t you forgive without someone dying? I mean, my parents taught me to forgive people – nobody dies in that scenario,” he wrote.



As reported by Fox News, various Christian singers, from Jeremy Camp to Mike Donehey, reached out to Steingard in loving support.

“Love you bro. Always will,” said Jeremy Camp.

“Man I love that you shared this. You know I’m always around to talk about our belief in God or lack thereof. Love you and always will,” said Mike Donehey.

“To echo so many others here, I have nothing but love in my heart for your old friend,” said Matt Hammitt.


https://www.dailywire.com/news/lead-singer-of-christian-rock-band-hawk-nelson-says-he-no-longer-believes-in-god

Ok.. Weldone

That's his own personal problem

He was an entertainer who never had personal encounter or conviction. A lesson to all Christians. Don't build your Christian life on the foundation of another man's salvation. This is common with pastors' children who never got born again before. They feign receiving salvation to appease the parents and the people. Some are gradually dying from inside as a result of it. When you get to our tertiary institutions, you see most of them so wildly displaying their true characters. That is why the Bible admonishes everyone to work out his salvation with fear and trembling.

Salvation is personal decision. You can't ride on the colt tail of another person even your parents.

My personal assertion about this guy is, he was never saved to begin with. There is no clear testimony of salvation in all his rant.

John 1:12, Romans 10:13.

For those above me, It is you guys that are saved typical so called Nigeria xtians.
As xtians there are times you just feel like giving up, and start asking ?s (even Jesus wanted to) when such happens to people, you embrace and encourage them, not assume they were not saved before and judge them, Peter was with Jesus for 3years yet he still denied him.

At least you saw the response of other xtians in the post, Jeremy camp and others, compare it to yours

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That's his own cup of tea.Now that he longer believes in God did heaven fall? Life is full of choices,you make the choice and reap the consequences.

Old story... But still worthwhile. Apostasy is real, and no one should say apostates fell because they didn't really know Christ initially.

The truth is that Life's storms hits differently and people react to them Differently. Jesus told Peter that Satan planned to sieve him, but He reassured Peter that He had prayed for him.

If someone like Peter wasn't immune from apostasy, then nobody is. I do pray that God shows mercy on Steingard and help him find his way back to the Faith.

Ignorance is really very bad...

When God created man, He gave Him power and authority to govern all what happens on the earth.

Unfortunately, man lost that authority to the devil. It's the devil who control most of what happens on earth, but the devil is limited by God's power in believers which Jesus restored to the church by the Holy Spirit.

When the rapture occurs, the devil will be released from his leash and all hell will break loose as the power of God in believers will be lifted.

In a nutshell the world is full of evil, because the devil is the god of this world but God has given man His power to restrict the evil and establish His will on earth.

Reality finally dawned on him.
Forty years from now, most people will realize that there's no God.
There's no rapture. And no super human will descend from the sky to take you to some imaginary paradise.

CAPSLOCKED:
THOSE WHO KNOW ME KNOW THAT I'VE ALWAYS MAINTAINED THAT OVER 90% OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS, PASTORS, AND CHRISTIAN SINGERS DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD.
THEY ONLY DO WHAT THEY DO USING GOD'S NAME BECAUSE IT FETCHES THEM A LOT OF MONEY FROM THEIR FOLLOWERS THAT ARE BEING DECEIVED.

None of them hears from any God, and they know it.
They just have to keep up with the act because a lot of people look up to them. And also, the money involved.

I just saw it dis morning and it's quite sad, but I like the band response to him, God is still for us all.