Matt Cook: Deconverson (not so) Anonymous
by MW Cook
Had a great conversation with the Graceful Atheist! Have a listen!
Today’s show is a Deconversion (not so) Anonymous episode. In these episodes, people who have gone throughdeconversionor faith transitions tell their stories anonymously or otherwise.
On today’s episode, my guest is Matt Cook from Toronto Canada. Matt was a former evangelical missionary to Pakistan and a preacher who lost his faith about six years ago. Matt is not your typical deconvert. He calls himself religious but not spiritual. Several years after deconversion, Matt chose to live a year “Christianly.” During that year he prayed, he read the bible daily, he went to church and practiced other spiritual disciplines. Although, it did not change his mind he has found continued value in these disciplines and practices some of them to this day.
You can learn more about Matt and his year of living Christianlyat his blogmwcook.com, on his YouTube channel and
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Matt W Cook 
Hello Atheist,
I say atheist because grace and atheism have nothing in common and by your own words you have become an enemy of the gospel, a liar, and a fool. You suggest that the teaching of the gospel is a form of child abuse, you consider the grace of God something to be mocked, and the fool has said in his heart there is no God. God says,”He who says that Christ Jesus has come in the flesh tells the truth, he who denies this is a liar.” Be so careful what you say to the world because that is where you voice goes out and we know how Beastly that internet can be.
It is humor mixed with melancholy that I feel, now that you have exchanged a God that you know for one that you don’t know. To be sure, you know more about your God than you will ever know about science. All the theories that your wise men teach as fact are indeed just that, theories. I have no need to repeat myself to illustrate how easily they can be dismissed, I have done that in other comments to you. Suffice it to say, in your own words,
“if you really want to believe something, you’ll find a way to make it fit.”
Return to your first love Mathew.
As your grandfather would say, “ It is time to take off the kid gloves”, and this is how I spoke the last times I commented or mailed you, “with kid gloves”. Don’t be so easily fooled. The time is coming very quickly when God will vindicate his name on this earth. Are you so naive as to think that the days are not coming soon to implement a mark to buy or sell. Are you foolish enough to think that Israel is not protected by God himself. “As surely as the Lord lives who brought his people up out of Egypt, with a mighty and outstretched hand.”, but no; Now they say in Israel, “ As surely as the Lord lives who gathered his people from the north and all the ends of the earth where he scattered them.” God saves his people. And just as Israel chose their God way back in their history so you chose Christ and were baptized in His name. Do not think that the Spirit that you have received will ever leave you. God says,” when we are faithless He remains faithful because He cannot deny Himself.” and again, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”
Return to your first love Mathew.
Don’t be fooled by the people of like mind that you have gathered to yourself. “The kisses of an enemy may be profuse, but faithful are the wounds of friend.” These people don’t know their right hand from their left. They think we have no sin on our hands and we ride on the backs of the nations to supply all our riches. We send our production to places where there is no protection for workers and wash our hands as innocent while we enjoy our inexpensive products. Our whole nation is in tears because of divorce. Our affections have become unnatural. All the things we have always done we continue. We say we are not pagan and we sacrifice our children for a better future. Genocide is just as common as it ever was, empires continue to rise and fall and we declare ourselves innocent. You have a duty to Christ your Lord to preach the good news of the Gospel. You have deliberately forgotten that he created you and this place because you can’t grasp his unsearchable judgments. Don’t you know that the righteous and the wicked die together and God is judge of them all? All the wisdom of the wise men you have come to trust will be confounded. God’s judgments will be proved true and at the name of Jesus every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
Return to your first love Mathew.