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Mankind's mortal enemy the Devil has the ability to tamper with the human
body and the human mind in ways not easily detected; e.g. Luke 13:16,
Mark 5:1-5, and Eph 2:2.
However, there are moments of clarity given us so that we can make
decisions about the things of Christ on our own without mental interference
from the greatest of all sophists and deceivers.
For example: I was baptized an infant into the Roman Catholic Church; and
anon completed enough catechism to make it to First Holy Communion and
Confirmation.
So I knew about the crucifixion, but had somehow been led to believe that it
was due to unfortunate circumstances. In other words: I pitied Christ, but
beyond that I saw nothing practical in what he endured.
So I remained loyal to Rome's beliefs and practices 24 years until one day a
Protestant man asked me-- in so many words --whether I knew that Christ
died to atone for my sins. Well; I never once in all those 24 years had even
so much as faintly considered that the cross might be to my advantage until
that man said so.
It was my first real moment of clarity and I could almost feel some sort of
scum being removed from the windows of my mind as I instantly realized
that safety from retribution was not only a distinct possibility but well within
my grasp.
You see, I had not been told that God was thinking of me when His son went
to the cross for the sins of the world. I had assumed that he went to the
cross because of the sins of the world but had somehow never caught on
that he went for anybody in particular until that man talked with me.
I sincerely believe moments of clarity like that are not happenstance; no,
they are calculated so as to give people a fighting chance to do their own
thinking about Christ, viz: without assistance from a higher power, we would
remain forever shackled to the unseen world's influence.
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Mankind's mortal enemy the Devil has the ability to tamper with the human
body and the human mind in ways not easily detected; e.g. Luke 13:16,
Mark 5:1-5, and Eph 2:2.
However, there are moments of clarity given us so that we can make
decisions about the things of Christ on our own without mental interference
from the greatest of all sophists and deceivers.
For example: I was baptized an infant into the Roman Catholic Church; and
anon completed enough catechism to make it to First Holy Communion and
Confirmation.
So I knew about the crucifixion, but had somehow been led to believe that it
was due to unfortunate circumstances. In other words: I pitied Christ, but
beyond that I saw nothing practical in what he endured.
So I remained loyal to Rome's beliefs and practices 24 years until one day a
Protestant man asked me-- in so many words --whether I knew that Christ
died to atone for my sins. Well; I never once in all those 24 years had even
so much as faintly considered that the cross might be to my advantage until
that man said so.
It was my first real moment of clarity and I could almost feel some sort of
scum being removed from the windows of my mind as I instantly realized
that safety from retribution was not only a distinct possibility but well within
my grasp.
You see, I had not been told that God was thinking of me when His son went
to the cross for the sins of the world. I had assumed that he went to the
cross because of the sins of the world but had somehow never caught on
that he went for anybody in particular until that man talked with me.
I sincerely believe moments of clarity like that are not happenstance; no,
they are calculated so as to give people a fighting chance to do their own
thinking about Christ, viz: without assistance from a higher power, we would
remain forever shackled to the unseen world's influence.
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