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SO HOW DID I BECOME A CHRISTIAN
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***********************************************************I the lord of of sea and sky i have heard my people cry,
all who dwell in dark and sin my hand will save
I who make the stars of night i will make their darkness bright
who will bear my light to them whom shall i send.
I will break their hearts of stone give give them hearts for love alone
I will speak my word to them whom shall I send
WHOM SHALL I SEND.
Here I am Lord is it I lord I have heard you calling in the night
I will go Lord, If you Lead me , I will hold your people in my heart.
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I was raised Catholic and my parents forced me to go to church attend mass listen to scripture (even if it made no sense to me) receive holy communion and go to confirmation but I thought it was all rubbish and boring and I hated and was bored about Christianity as it made no sense to me.I was not Anti-Christian but resurrection of Christ and eternal life did seem to be quite far fetched, crazy and wacky to believe in and I thought it to be false and was invented by the early Christians. I did not read or Study the Bible all my life as I grew up as I did not understand anything in it and it seemed to be like Greek or Egyptian or some strange undecipherable foreign language which made absolutely no sense to me.
back then before I became a born again Christian when I was seeking the truth in Life I was in college studying and in the college library reading philosophy, psychology,quantum physics,astronomy,Einsteins relativity etc I became intrested in new age philosophies and I was surfing the internet I came upon a New Age Buddhist website in which the author tried to explain Christianity the author made these claims against Christianity in order to prove that his religion was “The Truth” and Christianity was a “False doctrine”.
the claims by the Buddhist author:
1 Jesus had never experienced enlightenment, or Jesus was never enlightened (enlightenment as defined by the Buddhists).
2 Claims that the crucifixion of a man was not physically possible as the hands could not support the weight of the body and would tear and come apart so the crucifixion story in the Bible is “false”.(or the Crucifixion has no medical basis, but this assumption is false since many detailed medical studies by experienced doctors about the crucifixion )
3 Jesus Christ was “never resurrected” and is “dead”.
I read all of this coolly and calmly and it never dawned on me that this guy had the same beliefs as me about Jesus Christ but strangely all of this started pestering my mind to look deeper and seek the truth and images of Jesus Christ’s suffering being tortured crying to God and being nailed to the cross and dying on the cross started coming to my deep thoughts. I thought all of this was kind of wacky, weird and strange to me (but later I realized that it was God calling me to seek the Truth and find the way).
So I finally decided to look into the matter and I got out my dusty Bible to read and I decided to study the resurrection of Jesus Christ as a matter of curiosity not of faith or the defense of the Christian faith.
My long journey really began by visiting an Anti-Christian New Age web site.
It never dawned on me that in doing so I would discover the secrets of the Bible, I would become a Bible reader and I would become a believer in Christ and a born again Christian just by reading and studying the Bible and inquiring into the Way the Truth and the Life.I never knew that I would be preaching the gospel to everyone, it just happened just like that…………strange….God works in strange ways.
Seeking the truth has led me to Christ, this is it I have written all of my experiences, I hope it will help someone who is seeking the truth too, if I can touch just one Anti-Christian soul who hates Christ and bring him to the Truth and show him Christ through all of this then I will consider my mission done.
TO ALL CHRISTIAN BROTHERS IN CHRIST :
I live and walk now as a Christian and not a sinner because of Christ our saviour and you Christians that have walked in the faith before me for i have visited your websites and read and studied the message and i have come to walk with Christ in THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.I have not walked alone in my long journey home for you were there with me along with Christ,and your strong faith in Christ has made my faith grow in Christ.
Your faith has deepened my faith in Christ and now together we can preach Christ to all nations and tribes,yes indeed WE CAN for today with modern communications technologies like radio,space satellites,computers,television and the internet,all magical like devices to the ancient Bibilical world,we can preach the gospel of the kingdom of God to ALL nations of this earth.Today it is of little surprise to us Christians that we can preach the gospel this way, BUT it also would not be a surprise to the ancient Christians who walked before us,for it was already written in the Bible that all of these things would someday come to pass,that the gospel of the Kingdom of God IN THE END shall be preached in ALL THE WORLD FOR A WITNESS UNTO ALL NATIONS and ALL people shall come to know of his glory and salvation.
Do not be ashamed be proud of your Christian faith stand out in the crowd even if you are just one, you can change many through the gospel of Christ.
