Afternoon, Amigos · 8:25pm Jan 1st, 2019
My first post of 2019.
Man, I can’t believe how much time God has forwarded us on.
The reason I wanted to make this post is because, in light of some comments on my last post on my beliefs concerning the Bible, I have decided to be open by explaining precisely why I came to be a believer in Jesus such a long time ago.
Since I was a child, I have been going to church with my family, and they have been teaching me about God for as long as I can remember. But, those reasons aren’t primarily why I became a Christian. They are only what made me aware of Him, really.
Around the time I was only 17 years old, I approached a time where I was nothing but a depressed and anxious wreck. I was so lost. Afraid. Unhappy. And, alone. On the outside, I was never alone, because I have a loving family who cares for me, as well as the most awesome friends anyone can ask for. But, on the inside, I was alone.
All I ever wanted to do was kill myself, even at the cost of hurting every single one of the people who love me and I love in return. I believed I was never important or special to begin with. Constantly, and out of nowhere, I have been on the verge of committing suicide, all because I have felt myself to be in so much pain, and I have been desperately wanting it to end!
But then...
God came to me.
In one of my darkest hours, and since that time on, He came to me.
I’ve never been so alive, I tell you!
When I started letting Jesus be my guide through life ever since, I found myself to be thriving. Here and there, I still struggle, but these days...with Jesus by my side, it’s no longer as serious as before.
When I was only a boy, I have, of course, been aware of so many other things, such as evolution and stuff like that. For a time, I believed those sort of things.
Suddenly, however...
As I started growing up, I could no longer understand any of those things. Everything had felt like a foreign language that I couldn’t understand at all. So many times, I couldn’t even sit through them without squirming in my seat or flinching like it was a fly buzzing around my ear.
I actually found myself understanding Jesus and the Bible more than the secular things that the world often throws, the latter which especially try to contradict God and prove he doesn’t exist despite their flaws.
At one point, while I was on vacation in Washington D.C, I visited an incredible museum full of things such as dinosaur skeletons and the like. The final thing my family and I visited was a butterfly exhibit, which also talks about its lifecycle. Everywhere we looked in the exhibit though, there were mentions of evolution this and evolution that, which was annoying in my opinion. We went on to run across some sort of small thing, which the description claims is “proof” of evolution existing.
But you know what we found and read?
Nothing. Nothing whatsoever.
There was no explanation provided at all for how it was “proof” so to speak, and we were all like, “How is it even proof if they don’t even say how it is? Or what it is for that matter?”
Whether part of not understanding things involving the secular things is something to do with my autism, I don’t know. But, I don’t really care either, because my time at that museum exhibit was quite literally the last straw I had with secularism.
To change the subject, another reason would be because I actually started to find out for myself exactly what would happen if I didn’t become a believer in Jesus.
If I was a man who didn’t follow Jesus, I‘d be a person of pure evil.
Many times, I have looked at so many terrible people, through history, news, movies, tv shows, and books, for who they are and what they’ve done. I would find myself discovering that they represent exactly who I would’ve been if I hadn’t come to be a believer in Jesus. A person who would’ve delighted in causing things such as death and destruction, and become powered by things such as greed, lust, ambition, obsession, desire, and anger. I would’ve been a person who‘d succumb to the world with obsession for things, such as fame, riches, and power.
Maybe that’s a reason for why I can’t help but find myself drawn towards the Storm King, because among other things (despite his lack of screen time), I find him to be a particular reflection of myself. The same, of course, being with other villains, such as Hades from Disney’s “Hercules (1997)”.
So, as you can see, those are my reasons for being a Christian. I would never be where I am now if Jesus hadn’t come along into my life, and I’m certainly never intending to let anything take me away from Him.
Ok...first thing:
It is called the Theory of Evolution for a reason. Stop acting like there is an end all be all answer from a scientific viewpoint. It is called a theory because there are still things unanswered and things still being discovered. No one is saying "We Know" how it all works. The greater part of the scientific community is not on a quest to contradict or disprove Divine existence. They are accused of it because they keep discovering things that prove some things in scriptures written by humanity is debatable.
Stop. Picking. This. Fight.
Every time you do, other users show you examples of studies and you end up revealing that it is a lack of understanding of the subject that leads you to disagreeing with it; and then the irony is lost on you when you bring up the lack of understanding in others.
It just turns into passive aggressive agreeing to disagree.
Furthermore; theory of evolution is not a subject matter of secularism. There are more religious people than you know (or accept) who see the theory of evolution as a means to understand exactly how life has reached where it is today.
There are scientists arguing on raw Biology that human life begins at conception after all.
Second:
I have no words to describe how wonderful it feels to have that certain sensation of being complete; but you know what I'm talking about.
That moment where you felt that connection; there ya go. It's why the denomination of Christianity works for you.
I say the same thing about my beliefs.
Blessed be
Not true at all.
Have you ever killed or raped anyone?
Have you ever sliced up a dog just to see how long before it bled out?
Me neither. I've never wanted to do any of that either.
Your faith makes you a better person, sure; but lack of faith in your specific religion doesn't instantly make someone (much less you) an unrepentive psychopath.
Saying that someone who doesn't agree with you is morally corrupt and evil is not an effective way to make friends; much less get them to want to listen to you.
You are literally saying that everyone who is non-Christian is evil and that the solution is to make the world Christian by force; because ya know...they're evil by choice, right?
Unless I am mistaken, that is not the case with you.
I mean, to the best of my knowledge; you've never decided that I am evil on grounds of our different faiths.
This same fight...you're better than this.
You have God. You don't need this.
Just be you. You're the only you that the Divine is gonna make.
Happy 2019
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I made this post so that I could explain myself and be much more open. You understand that, don’t you? It isn’t my intention to get into another debate. My only intention is so that people can see why I believe in God.
No. But, I have seen myself doing those things if I didn’t come to Jesus.
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My apologies. It came off as another debate.
You called out Evolutionists as being Antitheist; thus where I drew the conclusion. You placed faith and science as polar opposites: incompatable with eachother; something you often go to whenever you got into an argument about faith.
If such was not your intent; then I apologize
Blessed be
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Thank you.
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perfect explanation.
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On evolution or on that non-Christians are decent people too?
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Happy new year.
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Happy New Year to you too.
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Both.
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Out of curiosity, what did you think about my post?
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Almost a picture perfect way of coming to know Christ!
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Thanks.
Apologies if I come off as harsh. I’m just trying to explain why I’m not very moved by this story.
This is not anything I wouldn’t have expected to read. This is partly because your testimony contains the basic elements found in most Christian testimonies: A person is lost, confused, and depressed, and Jesus makes their life better. However, I would expect people to have those kinds of experiences regardless of whether a God existed, due to a combination of the human tendency to believe in the supernatural, the placebo effect, motivated reasoning, and the exhilaration of living one’s life according to a “higher purpose”. None of those things, not even the last one, are very much connected to truth however. I’m sure that there are is a huge amount of stories about people converting to other religions and experiencing effects similar to what you describe.
You say you found mentions of evolution annoying, but like it or not, it is the consensus view among scientists, to the point where it’s not even considered worth debating. Also, your tone suggests that you view evolution as inherently connected to atheism and secularism, but people who believe in it don’t see it that way. We just see it as an interesting fact about our world. The only reason evolution has acquired a connotation of being anti-religion is because creationists are opposed to the concept.
You don’t understand secular things? Well, you don’t seem to have put much research into it. I think if you spent more time reading about “secular” things (such as evolution, although I don’t know what you mean apart from evolution), you’d be surprised.
I can relate.