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There is a Logical Reason That I am a Christian

Once upon a time, this old man was born into this world, as a baby, with absolutely nothing in his mind. Everything that is in my mind now is there because of some input from outside.

My manners came from my parents, my basic education came via the government schools, experience and lectures from Mom and Dad. My higher education came from books I chose to read and persons I chose to study, and teachers I chose to submit to. My faith came from God, through His Spirit.

You can most likely see what I am driving at. Between birth and adulthood, I had many choices, just as you did. A primary choice was to decide whether or not to believe what my parents, teachers, and others taught me and to make choices that would later determine whom I would turn to for my higher education.

Let me explain that I was born into a non- Christian home. I didn't know that fact as a child or young adult because my parents called us all Christians, but man's ideas don't make truth. My mother, now 89 still doesn't know what makes a person a Christian (Please pray for her).

Since my childhood home's religion was "Churchianity"...going to church once per week and never associating with other church members during the week and not talking about Christ, God, the devil or anything spiritual during the week, I was overcome by the devil's deception, thinking I was a "Good Christian". I had trouble understanding why I couldn't resist opportunities to steal, lie, cheat, soak up porno, chase girls, then women, cuss, get drunk, etc. Something was not right; I knew that and through it all was on a life's mission to find out "What is real, what is true?", as I put it in my mind.

The fact of the matter is, there were many choices of faith/religion (faith believes God [Christianity] Religion works to please God [Judiaism, Islam, Hindu, Buddhists, Humanism, etc])

Through my young adult years, I was angry, mean, unhappy and deperate to find out what was real. I searched in the minds of older men, in Positive Mental Attitude books, in illicit relationships with women, in bars, in the Catholic Church, the Ouija Board, Masonic Lodge, and other things. I scorned the sound churches that taught the Bible, God's Word. I was in the devil's grip of sin by way of deception.

Finally, at the age of 33, I was chasing a pretty woman, whom I had met on a new job. I put on my best smile (deception) and asked her out to dinner. She accepted and said that dinner should be at her house. "Alright!!!" I thought, this will be easier than I thought!

I arrived for dinner and her pre-teenage daughter was also there. The lady explained to me that she thought I was a nice fella, but that there would be no intimate activity with her. She also let me know that her schedule was also quite full...with church six times a week.

As I visited, I asked if I could go to church with her. I wanted to see what there could be in a church that kept an bright and pretty woman so interested. I made it clear that I would go only once, or, maybe twice...just out of curiosity. The pastor preached the Gospel and I didn't understand it, however, I went back the next night. Again, he preached the Gospel in closing. When I realized that Jesus Christ had settled my sin account on the cross,things happened inside me; lights flashed in my head, the weight of the world was lifted off my shoulders because I had believed on the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ for my own personal salvation before I knew what had happened. I was relieved, I was excited, I was free. After all those years, I now knew why Christ didn't come down off the cross and destroy the guilty people who put Him there. The reason was because of a word that was seldom used in my childhood home...LOVE

That next evening, I went into that church weighed down under the chains of sin and I departed free, excited, and happy. Sure, there have been sorrows for me as a Christian, but now I didn't have to face them alone! Hallelujah!

I am a Christian because God and His Word are true. His Word was preached and His power worked in my soul and spirit, through His Holy Spirit.

After twenty seven years of study, I am now able to explain the facts more completely: God's Word was written roughly 350 years before any religion's supposed "Sacred Writings". After 350 years, people who were under the devil's spiritual influence and bondage did the devil's work, as they plagiarized and distorted the revealed Word of God, offering many religions, while, in reality, offering only one other way to God...through human works, which God says will not work (Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5)

I am a Christian today because I was seeking the truth and God answered my questions with His Word, the Gospelof Jesus Christ. His Spirit empowered me to "repent towards God", and gave me "faith towards Jesus Christ" His Son, thus enabling me to know that I had been saved even before I was born...now that I believed Him, I received my redemption, my justification, reconciliation, and moved into my rightful place in God's family, as His adopted Son. Now, many years later, He brings tears to my eyes as I know that He has guided me in this article. Even though I have been a bad boy many times in those years, He remains faithful and has answered my prayer to guide me about what to write today. Only the basic skeleton of this article was in my mind when I started. The rest is God's guidance...Praise the Lord!

I continued in church with this lady and went six times per week with her. We continued to have a nice platonic relationship and she mentored me in the faith for quite some time, until the devil convinced me that I needed to move 1,800 miles away, to further my own life. That move was to a great place that I enjoyed very much, but it also disconnected me from church and fellowship. Three years later I moved back and became very active in church again, was happier again, and I have now lived "happily ever after".

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Rev. Bob Carpenter has been busy in ministry since 1986, ordained in 1991 by Bible Doctrine Church of Little Rock. Bob is a busy missionary to the Philippines and is well known for maintaining the purity of the salvation message.

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