My journey to Christ as my Savior.
I was raised by Christian parents but the Bible was never taught or even discussed.
I was raised to figure things out for myself with love and varying degrees of forgiveness.
It was later in life that a personal crisis, and serendipity, Charles Stanley’s sermon collided in my mind.
Suddenly everything made sense and at the same time nothing made sense.
I went to a great Bible Church every week and quickly discovered that my belief required me to “Spread the Word”.
WOW.
I need to do some homework.
I spent the next 4 or 5 years studying. Reading the Bible, reading Christian Apologist, reading and watching countless videos of their debates.
Prior to my “Crises” I had watched and actually bought this 6 VHS tape set of Joseph Campbell on Mythology. Extremely well done with a final conclusion that “I am my own God”. It’s pure Buddhism that never found any traction even before my Re-Birth but became critical in my Affirmation of Christ.
IMHO, it all comes down to Darwinian evolution or Creation.
When I read and listened to the Darwinist, their “Science” and “Reason” didn’t add up. The math alone didn’t add up, never-mind their conclusions about human nature and Free will.
Back to the Buddhist and “Spirituality”.
IMHO, Buddhism is based on the “uncertainty” found in “Theoretical Physics”. A belief in a possibility without certainty.
If Freud demands certainty then he need only look at himself.
I did.
The Darwinist attempt to destroy all meaning of mind. Including their own minds.
The Buddhist/Humanist take the other extreme. There is no right or wrong and in a world of uncertainty everything is possible.
I came to Christ, once again, through the process of elimination.
I wasn’t “Told” what to believe.
I didn’t “Need” anything.
God has Created Man with an extraordinary ability, the ability to consider all the evidence, to thoughtfully self reflect and come to Him by Faith.
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>> “ and come to Him by Faith.” <<
Precisely!
Without that faith, there can be no application for grace. It cannot be of effect to those who reject the faith delivered on the first shavuot, at Mt. Sinai.
That is what Paul explained in Hebrews ch 3 and 4.
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>> “I was raised by Christian parents but the Bible was never taught or even discussed.” <<
Ditto, at least what the Bible really said in very plain language.
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Great testimony, thank you for sharing. I love to hear perspectives on Christianity from people who have experienced every other belief system in the world and found them lacking.