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Zaw_Lin

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My name is Zaw Lin. I am 13 years old and I am from Myanmar but I live in Singapore. My childhood years were a mix of both good and bad. Sometimes I am well-behaved, sometimes I am a bad boy. When I was 11 years old. My classmates started to bully me. In Buddhism, there is this thing called "Karma". It goes like this: if you do good, good things will happen. If you do bad, bad things will happen to you. I believed that the things happen because I caused a lot of trouble back then. So I decided to repent and start being faithful. I was also interested in conspiracy theories and the Illuminati, which brings me to hear about Jesus and Christianity. I believed in both Buddhism and Jesus. One day, on Vesak Day, or the Buddha's birthday, after I went to the monastery, I was in my home, and I watched a video about a Buddhist monk from Myanmar who died and went to hell and saw Buddha there. It (sort of) changed my life, my perspective, and my beliefs. I realized that Jesus was the only way, so I started to pray and believe, but I was also backsliding and sinning willfully. Two years later, I realized that the video I watched turned out to be fake! It turned out to be a hoax! So I started to question myself. How could God use something like hoax or a lie, to bring me to Christ? I was becoming anxious and stressed out. Did I come to convert falsely? Am I a false convert? Right now, I'm becoming a bit skeptical about my testimony. Please help me! I'm starting to have doubts about my faith and belief and I'm being skeptical. Please help me!
 
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Zaw_Lin said:
My name is Zaw Lin. I am 13 years old and I am from Myanmar but I live in Singapore. My childhood years were a mix of both good and bad. Sometimes I am well-behaved, sometimes I am a bad boy. When I was 11 years old. My classmates started to bully me. In Buddhism, there is this thing called "Karma". It goes like this: if you do good, good things will happen. If you do bad, bad things will happen to you. I believed that the things happen because I caused a lot of trouble back then. So I decided to repent and start being faithful. I was also interested in conspiracy theories and the Illuminati, which brings me to hear about Jesus and Christianity. I believed in both Buddhism and Jesus. One day, on Vesak Day, or the Buddha's birthday, after I went to the monastery, I was in my home, and I watched a video about a Buddhist monk from Myanmar who died and went to hell and saw Buddha there. It (sort of) changed my life, my perspective, and my beliefs. I realized that Jesus was the only way, so I started to pray and believe, but I was also backsliding and sinning willfully. Two years later, I realized that the video I watched turned out to be fake! It turned out to be a hoax! So I started to question myself. How could God use something like hoax or a lie, to bring me to Christ? I was becoming anxious and stressed out. Did I come to convert falsely? Am I a false convert? Right now, I'm becoming a bit skeptical about my testimony. Please help me! I'm starting to have doubts about my faith and belief and I'm being skeptical. Please help me!
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The best way to become a Christian is to discover the Message of Jesus and decide if it is good or bad.. relying on second hand reports is dangerous as you have found out.. Nothing long lasting is ever founded on a lie.. So the best way is to read the Message of Jesus and decide.. it is good and truth or is it evil? Once We decide that God is Good and true and correct it does not matter if other people lie to us or how they treat us because our relationship with God is directly between us and God.. It is not a relationship through other people.

When our relationship with God is not directly with God but through other people it is not a true relationship.. And it is always vulnerable to being destroyed easy because people being faulty people will often fail us.. God is perfect.. Humans are not perfect.. Go directly to God,, talk to Him and ask for His guidance and read the message of Jesus ad the New testament..

May you be guided by God and may you be willing to allow God to guide you. :)
 
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Zaw_Lin said:
My name is Zaw Lin. I am 13 years old and I am from Myanmar but I live in Singapore. My childhood years were a mix of both good and bad. Sometimes I am well-behaved, sometimes I am a bad boy. When I was 11 years old. My classmates started to bully me. In Buddhism, there is this thing called "Karma". It goes like this: if you do good, good things will happen. If you do bad, bad things will happen to you. I believed that the things happen because I caused a lot of trouble back then. So I decided to repent and start being faithful. I was also interested in conspiracy theories and the Illuminati, which brings me to hear about Jesus and Christianity. I believed in both Buddhism and Jesus. One day, on Vesak Day, or the Buddha's birthday, after I went to the monastery, I was in my home, and I watched a video about a Buddhist monk from Myanmar who died and went to hell and saw Buddha there. It (sort of) changed my life, my perspective, and my beliefs. I realized that Jesus was the only way, so I started to pray and believe, but I was also backsliding and sinning willfully. Two years later, I realized that the video I watched turned out to be fake! It turned out to be a hoax! So I started to question myself. How could God use something like hoax or a lie, to bring me to Christ? I was becoming anxious and stressed out. Did I come to convert falsely? Am I a false convert? Right now, I'm becoming a bit skeptical about my testimony. Please help me! I'm starting to have doubts about my faith and belief and I'm being skeptical. Please help me!
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Whether the video was fake or true makes no difference. The fact is that Jesus died on a cross for you, Buddha did not. Jesus forgives your sins if you ask him, Buddha cannot. If you look for Jesus His body is not there,He rose again, Buddha could not. You have the truth,no matter how you came to it. Dont let satan take away your faith. Thats what his job is,to make you doubt. No matter how you came to the truth satan will make you doubt. So dont listen. You've found the Way,its Jesus. Read the Bible and pray and dont let satan deceive you again.
 
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Dont let your faith hang on a conspiracy theory : p Thats not what the Gospel is about at all : p

Jesus rose from the dead. When the pharisees heard this, they didnt go and get his body and march up and down the street with it to shut up those who were preaching what He did. They came up with a story about how His followers actually stole His body to cover for it.

His followers continued preaching His Resurrection through imprisonment, torture and even being put to death. Who would willingly make up a lie just to "gain followers", and then be willing to lose everything by continuing to preach their lie even when being put to death? Either someone whos completely out of it and doesnt understand the severity of their situation, or someone who truly believes with all their heart in what theyre preaching.

We are told that false prophets would come after Christ claiming to speak in His name but to deny Him and what He did for us, and would lead many astray with their contradictory false gospels. We can see this in our world, especially with a religion like Islam. It claims to be from Christ, but denies who He is and what He has done, and many have chosen to follow it.

And God tells us that Israel would be the burden of the world, a large amount of time in the United Nations is used to deal with the problem of Israel and those who attack it.

There is no question who is truly God, and who is the truth in our world. Believe in His word, and not conspiracy videos on youtube : p
 
laura_charlotte

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Yeraza_Bats said:
Dont let your faith hang on a conspiracy theory : p Thats not what the Gospel is about at all : p

Jesus rose from the dead. When the pharisees heard this, they didnt go and get his body and march up and down the street with it to shut up those who were preaching what He did. They came up with a story about how His followers actually stole His body to cover for it.

His followers continued preaching His Resurrection through imprisonment, torture and even being put to death. Who would willingly make up a lie just to "gain followers", and then be willing to lose everything by continuing to preach their lie even when being put to death? Either someone whos completely out of it and doesnt understand the severity of their situation, or someone who truly believes with all their heart in what theyre preaching.

We are told that false prophets would come after Christ claiming to speak in His name but to deny Him and what He did for us, and would lead many astray with their contradictory false gospels. We can see this in our world, especially with a religion like Islam. It claims to be from Christ, but denies who He is and what He has done, and many have chosen to follow it.

And God tells us that Israel would be the burden of the world, a large amount of time in the United Nations is used to deal with the problem of Israel and those who attack it.

There is no question who is truly God, and who is the truth in our world. Believe in His word, and not conspiracy videos on youtube : p
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I found this to be really encouraging.
 
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