I love hearing these stories, stories of new birth. So exciting.
My story?
I always had an interest, a draw if you will, to God and Christianity but wasn’t raised in church, not one of my family members went to church. Ever. I tried a few times throughout the years but always went back to filth...
Wow thanks for sharing that. I have a bunch of questions:)
So you spent over 40 years in the church before you were actually saved?
What happened at 56, what changed?
How did you know you were saved at 56?
I too considered myself Christian as a teen but was not actually saved until 38.
Don’t worry about @throughfaith he loves to argue about anything that resembles Calvinism. Just check out the first five pages of Bible discussions, you’ll see a bunch of his threads.
Agreed, repentance: the changing of one’s mind or nature is a gift.
2 Cor. 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
For godly sorrow worketh repentance: gar kata theos lupē katergazomai metanoia
Gar:
Kata...
I was saved at 38, no prior religion either. Shortly after I downloaded a Strong's Concordance, this helped me realize just how perfect God's word is.
Remember, God's word is perfect but no English translation is.
If you believe you have been predestined to believe. Before the foundation of the earth the perfect Father promised you to the perfect Son and the Perfect Spirit opened your eyes to see the image of the perfect Son whom you will immediately love, honor, admire and strive to be like for eternity...
From a different thread, this will get you started.
Must we repent in order to be forgiven?
Yes. However, It is crucial for one to have a biblical understanding of repentance?
Repent/Metanoeo: to think differently or afterwards, i.e. reconsider
Can a man change his own nature or is it the...
You may be able to but I cannot. I have been born from above, the Lord has begun a work in me that He promises to finish.
Lord willing you’ll figure it out someday.