I was a Christian in name only. While I did believe in God, I had not submitted Him as the maker and creator of my destiny. I felt that this was something I was better off handling rather than letting God decide my fate. Being raised in the West and subjected to the influences with which we are constantly bombarded, did not help the situation neither. In a word, you could say that I was living by my own set of rules<\/p>\n

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I was a Christian in name only. While I did believe in God, I had not submitted Him as the maker and creator of my destiny. I felt that this was something I was better off handling rather than letting God decide my fate. Being raised in the West and subjected to the influences with which we are constantly bombarded, did not help the situation neither. In a word, you could say that I was living by my own set of rules<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[7156,2076,4636,516,1936,7157,1387,7158,2216,7,341,7159,335,2126,507],"class_list":["post-6671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-truth-seeker","tag-adam-ibrahim","tag-agnostic","tag-agnosticism","tag-atheism","tag-atheist-2","tag-cairo","tag-conversion-story","tag-don-trammell","tag-egypt","tag-featured","tag-islam","tag-islam-a-home-for-the-heart","tag-quran","tag-revert","tag-sunnah"],"yoast_head":"\n