this might be a bit personal, so you dont have to add in any very personal details if you dont want to! no pressure!
!!!!!!!!**please try to keep your answers brief**!!!!!!!!
a few questions if you will.....
1. why didn't you believe?
2. did you discuss your doubts/thoughts/ideas with anyone?
3. did you want to believe?
4. can you describe your 'conversion'? was it an actual moment or event, or a gradual process?
5. how long ago did it take place?
6. do you feel alot closer to God/Jesus now?
7. what christian religion do you practice? if you dont actually follow a 'religion', how do you practice your beliefs?
8. what do you have to say to those or about those who dont believe?
thanks alot everyone. i really appreciate it!
2007-04-12 20:48:12 · 12 answers · asked by Robin 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
hey im not a faith stalker!!!
and im not'chatting!'
i am asking serious questions to learn more about faith and religion and spirituality!!!
if you dont want to answer you dont have to
gee relax ppl!
2007-04-13 00:27:09 · update #1
1. why didn't you believe?
Because prior to that, no one told me.
2. did you discuss your doubts/thoughts/ideas with anyone?
No
3. did you want to believe?
YES...once I heard the good news!
4. can you describe your 'conversion'? was it an actual moment or event, or a gradual process?
Accepting Jesus for salvation is called being born again....it is an event just like our first birth. It is not a process. We are given salvation in just a moment...the moment we ask the LORD to save us.
5. how long ago did it take place?
Oct 1, 1958...but I did not always serve my LORD. I strayed far too many times just like the prodigal son.
6. do you feel alot closer to God/Jesus now?
Since I made Jesus my LORD about 7 years ago...YES....
7. what christian religion do you practice? if you dont actually follow a 'religion', how do you practice your beliefs?
"religion" divides...Christianity is life. I simply do the things that I know will please my LORD....not for what I can get from HIM...but because I truely love HIM with all my heart and all my being!
8. what do you have to say to those or about those who dont believe?
I have talked to many who did not think GOD could love them but the MOMENT they followed the instructions in the link below...I have consistenty gotten the same response...HE does love me. Hate is gone and peace enters....the moment they ask the LORD to save them
2007-04-12 21:04:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. why didn't you believe?Preacher of the Gospel and the drawing of God the Father to His son Jesus Christ and the conviction of sin by the Holy Ghost/Spirit.
2. did you discuss your doubts/thoughts/ideas with anyone?After the Born again Blessing I wanted to share it with everyone. Praise God!
3. did you want to believe?Yes
4. can you describe your 'conversion'? was it an actual moment or event, or a gradual process?Being Saved/Born Again is an event that happens at the Preaching of the Gospel of Grace.
5. how long ago did it take place?48 Years
6. do you feel a lot closer to God/Jesus now?Yes every day.
7. what christian religion do you practice? if you don't actually follow a 'religion', how do you practice your beliefs?Free Will Baptist worship Style.
8. what do you have to say to those or about those who don't believe?I do not want to see your soul lost and end up in Hell. I love you enough to ask you to believe in Jesus Christ and be Saved and Baptized.
2007-04-13 04:00:21 · answer #2 · answered by deacon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. I did believe when I was a Christian.
2. I talked to the pastors and my friends.
3. I did.
4. It was gradual but there was an actual moment. I didn't feel right in my religion and questioned a lot. Then I took classes to a religion and it just felt right so I converted.
5. in 2002
6. No.
7. I dont' practice a Christian religion.
8. They can believe whatever they think is right.
I think you were looking for those that converted to the Christian religion. I converted from the Christian religion.
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2007-04-13 04:00:03 · answer #3 · answered by Mawyemsekhmet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. pride/egotism/you name it.
2. sure did, I liked to put Christians down, call them ignorant and foolish....I was vicious.
3. yes
4. Both, an actually moment followed by a gradual process.
5. The conversion took a split second, but the process is ongoing.
6. Yes
7. I follow Christ....I'm not a Baptist, Catholic, or whatever.
8. God is real, salvation is through Christ. Seek Him. You are a sinner whether you choose to believe in God or not. You not believing will not change this fact. You will pay the fine of your sin with eternal torment. You are responsible for what happens and you will have no one else to blame.
2007-04-13 04:08:35 · answer #4 · answered by JohnC 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not a convert, but I did stray from the flock as it were.
1. It wasn't that I didn't believe, it was that I saw flaws within the 'church'
2. I was visited by a trio of LDS missionaries and we discussed their faith as well as what remained of mine and I say that just because the 'church' was flawed it was no reason to distance myself from God.
3. I wanted to, and still did, but I felt isolated from others who worshiped in the way I was raised to.
4. It was a process, that culminated in a dream I had following a viewing of the Passion.
5. from the Mormons to the Dream was a little over a month
6. Yes
7. I finished out Lent by attending Catholic mass regularly, but I will start to 'make the rounds' and see what the other local houses of worship offer me. I take quiet time to reflect on my actions and choices and ponder their meanings.
8. The fact is that no matter how strong or weak your belief, (if you have one) no one 'Knows' what is waiting for us after this world, but we can be kind and allow others to find their path at their own pace in this world.
2007-04-14 17:39:34 · answer #5 · answered by janssen411 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. No one ever took the time to explain the Bible/Jesus/God to me. I thought "My life sucks, there's no God."
2. Yup. I made fun of all my christian friends. They ALL knew my positions. I would ask my dad questions he didn't know the answers to and he'd get very angry with me.
3. Nope, i couldn't have cared either way.
4. Well, i prayed the "prayer" to accept Jesus into my heart but it wasn't till years later that I started reading the Bible and actually developed a relationshp with Christ.
5. about 6 years/7 years
6. YES
7. Evangelical christian...the Bible and nothin' but!
8. Jesus is Lord. salvation is a free gift.
2007-04-13 03:53:01 · answer #6 · answered by Michelle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm some poor guy from the third world, I've never heard of the christian religion. What do I do?
Should 6 billion people all have a personal relationship to God?
2007-04-13 03:54:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Because I finally realise there is no god.
2. With a pastor, some priest and a whole lot of christians who had now distanced from me because "I had fallen" .... LL
3. I did
4. gradual process (hey, not possible to get a pastor and a priest together, not to mentioned a whole lot of chrsitians.
5. More then a decade ago
6. I feel I see the truth now ... .there is no god.
7. I don't, not now.
8. Good Gracious, you have the better end of the stick :D.
Oh... you mean convert TO christianity ..... sorry, I got it wrong .... I thought you mean to get out of Christianity :P.
2007-04-13 03:56:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
One night while on dope, I took a trip, to hell, and heard the voice of Jesus, telling me he died for me,
I excepted him gladley, he let me live, now wow, believe is a understatment. I know that I know that I know, I felt it, smelt it, an tasted death hell, and the grave. I remember coming out of that with love, for my God, and understanding for creation, I got a revelation of my ministry, and I have healing power in both hands when I pray for people they get healed right away, I can talk to a person and in 5 miniutes God is using me to speak his words and love to them.
I can feel Satan, and ugley spirits now, in and around others.
Matt, Mark Luke and John, are real,
I am in ministry that is in 91 Nations. I next year will be going to India, to help a mission there.
So, It must be borring, if you dont have a life as Christ did.
He told us to live as he did. any one who dont believe, well sorry. Its time you did, dont you think, bow your head and lets pray,
Jesus I know you died on the cross for my sins, please come into my heart and forgive me for my sins, I believe you are writing my name in the Lambs book of life right now, I am saved, thank you, amen
If you read this,,, your saved... start living for the kingdom of God, Its time. Its the right time.
2007-04-13 03:59:30 · answer #9 · answered by Faith Walker 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You do know that those are personal questions, why did you still wrote it in this section?
Don"t you know that it will be considered as a chat and chat is prohibited in this section
jtm..
2007-04-13 03:59:58 · answer #10 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋