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To: Alamo-Girl
or whether you ever experienced that first divine revelation that Jesus Christ is Lord or whether you experienced it and then either quenched the Spirit, forgot, became distracted by the world or flat-out rejected the blood the Christ.

Some information about me: I was saved at 4, witnessed to my friends at school, memorized Bible verses galore, have read through the Bible multiple times, have worked with children and prayed the sinner's prayer with them, wept and prayed for my father and grandmother's salvation, thought about going to Bible college, and chose to go to a Christian college. I never experienced any miracles, surprising answers to prayer (sure, I got A's on occasion when I prayed for them, but I wouldn't call that a miracle), or life-changing emotional spiritual experiences. You've said I'm very logical, and I tend not to trust my emotions. I know they are fleeting and easily engaged by certain things (dim lights, pretty pictures, and repetitive melodies) that may not be of divine origin at all. My faith was built chiefly on loyalty and stick-to-it-iveness, not evidences.

I did not quench the Spirit, forget, get distracted, or reject Jesus. My counter-conversion was a lengthy and troubling process, and at the end what bothered me the most was that I did not want to believe that Jesus and the disciples were not as they were depicted in the Gospels. There's a lot of flippancy by Christians about my experiences--I must not have been truly saved, I never actually "experienced" God at all, I am sinful and decided to selfishly go after lies--which I find very insulting and arrogant. But I understand people get defensive when they find their worldview threatened, and tend to assume someone like me must not have had the same experiences they had, or I could not have reached my conclusions.

That's simply not so.

453 posted on 06/11/2007 12:06:36 PM PDT by ahayes ("Impenetrability! That's what I say!")
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To: ahayes; betty boop; Dr. Eckleburg; .30Carbine
That you didn't reject Jesus is the best news I've heard all day!

My faith was built chiefly on loyalty and stick-to-it-iveness, not evidences.

That is what I've been calling "teeth gritting."

Jesus has warned us that there will be those in the judgment who'll say "Lord, Lord" and He'll respond that He never knew them. That is a revelation that is best heard on this side of eternity, when there is still an opportunity to ask God for "ears to hear."

462 posted on 06/11/2007 12:26:23 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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