Boy do I have a long story. I am an ex-Atheist. And when I say Atheist...I mean ATHEIST. My goal in every single religious debate I have been in over the years has been to convince believers that there was no God. That was my goal in every single argument, and I convinced more that a few in my time.
I won't go into my story much here...is there a testimonial thread?
Either way I just sorta wanted to introduce myself. I was saved about a week ago but I am in no way new to Christianity. I was once a believer before me and God had a big falling out so to say. And for years I have studied Christianity in an attempt to find faults and contradictions within the Bible. About a week ago a good Christian friend of me convinced me to go to church with him. A few things happened that Sunday that forced me to make the decision to go through all my dusty old notes and my old Bible and kind of re-study everything with an open and fresh mind. It was a combination of things the preacher said at that service, the way that people in that church were more than nice to me ( I don't look like the church going type. Tattoos everywhere, and piercings) yet no one told me I was not welcome. They seemed glad to have me actually. Something about that Sunday made me want to look into my disbelief and see if just maybe there was something I missed. And of course, I found that something. God gave me the talent of writing as well as the talent of speech. Even as a child people said I would grow up to be either a preacher, a lawyer, or an author. And I was using those gifts against the very God that blessed me with those talents. But now the tables have turned, and it is my goal to kinda make it up to God. I realize I am forgiven, but no matter that, The Harvest is Great but the Laborers are Few...and personally I feel like this is my mission in life. God had to drag me through ALOT of bad things to prepare me for this. Prison...drugs...addictions...violence...you name it, I have probable endured it. And yet by the grace of God, here I stand.
Anyways, this is my long introduction, :D
I joined this forum to learn as well as to teach. If I can help someone, sometime, somewhere...then I am doing what I really feel in my heart that God has been preparing me to do.
I won't go into my story much here...is there a testimonial thread?
Either way I just sorta wanted to introduce myself. I was saved about a week ago but I am in no way new to Christianity. I was once a believer before me and God had a big falling out so to say. And for years I have studied Christianity in an attempt to find faults and contradictions within the Bible. About a week ago a good Christian friend of me convinced me to go to church with him. A few things happened that Sunday that forced me to make the decision to go through all my dusty old notes and my old Bible and kind of re-study everything with an open and fresh mind. It was a combination of things the preacher said at that service, the way that people in that church were more than nice to me ( I don't look like the church going type. Tattoos everywhere, and piercings) yet no one told me I was not welcome. They seemed glad to have me actually. Something about that Sunday made me want to look into my disbelief and see if just maybe there was something I missed. And of course, I found that something. God gave me the talent of writing as well as the talent of speech. Even as a child people said I would grow up to be either a preacher, a lawyer, or an author. And I was using those gifts against the very God that blessed me with those talents. But now the tables have turned, and it is my goal to kinda make it up to God. I realize I am forgiven, but no matter that, The Harvest is Great but the Laborers are Few...and personally I feel like this is my mission in life. God had to drag me through ALOT of bad things to prepare me for this. Prison...drugs...addictions...violence...you name it, I have probable endured it. And yet by the grace of God, here I stand.
Anyways, this is my long introduction, :D
I joined this forum to learn as well as to teach. If I can help someone, sometime, somewhere...then I am doing what I really feel in my heart that God has been preparing me to do.
