No event. Just natural that I accept Christ as a child in 1956.
2007-02-11 03:11:07
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answered by Fish <>< 7
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I rejected the Christians idea of a (G)od due to the hypocrisy I witnessed mostly during the era of the Viet Nam conflict.
I was shot in the chest when I was 17 years old and had an experience of conscious awareness of self which seemed to be transcendant of my physiological existence while I was lying dead for a few seconds in the emergency room. I spent the ensuing years exploring the religions of the world seeking an answer for my experience. Eastern philosophy was the area that I settled in and praticed a sort of Zen without a Bhudda. The end result was that I felt a loss of the ideas of benevolence and I became without a personality. If there is one fact of existence that I felt was paramount to ones identity I felt it was personhood and so I ultimately rejected all pantheistic and polytheistic thoughts as well. And at the urging of my brother I began to re-examine the claims of the Holy Scriptures. Along with the writings of Watchman Nee, Francis Schaffer, CS Lewis, Charles Finney, Nancy Pearcy, Lee Stroubel, RC Sproul, all skeptics before examing the evidence for a creator and the scientific discoveries in astrophysics and microbiology, I have come to the point where I cannot intellectually deny the truths I have learned. Some people believe that faith is a mystical abandonment of reason to believe the unbelieveable but I am here to tell you that Faith for me is a trust in the place that empirical evidence has led me. Faith is trust. I trusted the evidence and therefore asked for God to be real for me and He has transformed me in ways that nothing else but the message of the gospel can explain. Today I am a student as well as a witness to others in apologetical excersizes which teach one about a God who gave us a brain and expects us to use it and still presents salvation as so simple that even a child can understand.
2007-02-11 03:45:12
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answered by messenger 3
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Interesting question. For me, it wasn't one specific event.
I was raised in the church, but I fell away when I was about thirteen. In that case, again, it wasn't one specific event. I think it was several, combined with the fact that no one could answer my questions.
For twelve years, I searched for answers. I was agnostic leaning towards atheism for the first couple years, then I converted to Wicca, then back to agnosticism leaning towards atheism, then just agnostic, and finally a few months ago, I came back to Christ.
During the entire twelve years, I never stopped searching. I read many books on religion, asked my questions, eventually found answers to most of them.
This is the shortened version of my story. The longer version can be found here:
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-MJmuXVQ3erQKW7DV5rCL6Is-?cq=1&l=6&u=10&mx=18&lmt=5
It's the last entry on the page, entitled "Testify."
2007-02-11 03:48:13
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answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7
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study a million TIMOTHY 4 and MATTHEW 24, the full financial ruin. here is the pivotal verse: at the instant after the tribulation of those days shall the sunlight be darkened, and the moon shall no longer supply her gentle, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens would be shaken: 30 and then shall look the sign of the Son of guy in heaven: and then shall each and all the tribes of the earth mourn, and that they shall see the Son of guy coming in the clouds of heaven with potential and great glory. there are a number of greater scriptures the two in the old and New Testaments of the BIBLE. the main suitable e book I easily have ever study on end situations activities is a 2008 e book God's conflict on Terror by using Walid Shoebat and Joel Richardson. they have accomplished an extremely, very thorough seek of all the books of the Bible which communicate of end situations and clarify them in an uncomplicated and uncomplicated to understand language. you would be astounded at how lots tips the Bible supplies in this problem.
2016-10-01 23:17:05
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answered by ? 3
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Before answering your question I want you to first let you know that the meaning of Christ in English language is anointed or appointed and christian means followers of Jesus Christ. Jesus was anointed by God to save the sinners on earth but was rather killed by those who do not believe him. you will not be called christian unless you will be the follower of Jesus
2007-02-11 03:14:01
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answered by Jesus M 7
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Seven years ago when I was 5 months pregnaut with my daughter I came home home early from work to find me husband in bed sick. When I tryed to wake him he was unresponsive. I don't know how but I got him into our pick up truck and rushed him to the hospital with me sisters help, also 5 months pregnaut.( my husband is 6' 4 and 300 lbs) He had spinal mendegitis he was in a coma for 3 days his organs started shutting down he was not exspected to survive. Family and friends started prayer circle almost 24- 7 and he woke up and to this day he has no complications from it. He told us he spoke with God and soon after a 2 month recovery at home we started attending church and was baptized that May............. Sounds amazing huh
2007-02-11 03:15:38
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answered by tab_zech 1
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Thank you for asking. I felt that I was very religious in my upbringing. I went to church every Sunday with my parents, went to church every week day with my classmates, sung in the choir of our church, cleaned the altar for the priest monthly, and participated in all church activities. However, I never felt I "knew" God as a person. I finally learned as an adult that I did not really know God. For one, I found out he has a personal name, Jehovah. (Psalm 83:18) I found out too that Jesus is his son, not God himself. I also found out that the "holy spirit" is God's active force;not a person as the "Trinity" says it is. The event that led me to change was a study of the Bible, something that I never was allowed to do in my church. I realized my parents only brought me up in their religion because their parents brought them up in theirs, etc. etc. etc. I am now happy to know the one true God, to know that his son, Jesus, preached about a Kingdom that will bring everlasting life on this earth when it will be restored back to a paradise, and that very soon, this government from God will end all the suffering, wars, and death forever!
2007-02-11 03:20:29
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answered by Gail B 3
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Christ is the end of the law: Romans 10,
which is therefore the end of sin & death.
No law = No sin imputed = No dead end.
The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
2007-02-11 03:12:05
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answered by Anonymous
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I almost died three times and God saved me until i could get saved, and I was a mormon, then wiccan, then atheist and I am now christian.
2007-02-11 03:14:44
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answered by Anonymous
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Swipped a Bible from the motel.
2007-02-11 03:07:31
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answered by Anonymous
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