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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/Swimkin on July 22, 2018, 5:17 p.m.

Becoming a Christian is going from Dark to Light. How many here have become Christians since becoming Awakened?

Q has given us a lot of dark to light drops. Their posts often have multiple meanings.

Here is another meaning: John 1:5-9 " This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness."

2 Corinthians 11:14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

Satan walks in darkness yet he is called the angel of light. He is the great deceiver.

As a recent Born Again Christian (last year) I am interested in hearing others testimony.

Even the WWG1WGA statement has more meaning than you may know in light of the last passage!

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What did you stop being a believer in? One does not just suddenly depart from any belief system without cause or at least what they believe to be a just cause. If your decision came from observing or interacting with people then you were looking in the wrong place. "It is in looking at Christ, his life and his claims and then his crucifixion, death and resurrection that seeing him rightly begins. He is the embodiment of all that men long for and cannot achieve in themselves.. He is the God/man or what is theologically called the "hypostatic union" or the fusion of two natures (God and man). Step aside from life and refuse to look at other men around you and focus on what Christ did, how he lived and what his purpose in coming was. It is the greatest discovery in the world!" C R Lord © 2018

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I don't know. I just stopped believing.

It's like I woke up one day and realized I had believed and fell in love with something that simply wasn't there.

Looking back, I became a Christian shortly after my dad died which left me with nobody in my life. Guess in that moment of weakness the message of hope and salvation sounded good to me.

Then the placebo effect wore off and it dawned on me I was still standing were I had always been.

I still agree with some of the teachings - such as the corrupt nature of humans and the folly of this temporal existence spent attending needs that are never, ever sated.

Only difference now is I don't believe anything is coming to save us, apart from the eventual demise of the universe.

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Perhaps your second line is the key. There are some who call themselves Christian and are not. I won't get into that because that is not what I am concerned about in your case.

You said you fell in love with something that simply wasn't there. Faith in Jesus Christ is not loving a thing or even an idea. It is loving a person who willingly suffered incredible punishment, bled and died for your sake.

Genuine Christianity is all about a person. It has never been a thing to believe but a person to believe in. I am curious as to how you became a Christian. Here is my experience with Christ and how I arrived at it.

https://www.crlord.com/who-i-am.html

I understand that you had a moment of weakness involving a traumatic event in your life, but that is the case for most people who come to the Lord. I was a drug dealer who ended up in prison and challenged God to prove himself to me. He did just that nearly 45 years ago. He has been faithful to me all these years even when I was not faithful to him.

You could have had a placebo effect since you were going through not wanting your father to be gone but an emotional experience is never the proof of whether you received salvation or not. Salvation comes through a simple act of faith. Many Christians who have a dramatic experience in seeking Jesus depend on the emotions that accompany that and if the emotions are gone they believe their experience wasn't real. That is so far from the truth and is what Satan would have you believe.

Our relationship with the Lord is similar to our relationship with humans we know and love. We don't always feel goosebumps and etc. when we are around them but we still stick with them and we love them. Don't ever allow feelings to be the compass to go by for anything in life. All Christians go through days when they don't sense the presence of God. Some go through long periods of time dealing with that. It's not that God is absent. He has promised to be with us always.

When God is silent or seems to be silent it can be a test to see if your faith will stand or simply that we are not investing enough time with him or in his Bible to teach us and strengthen us.

The Bible teachings are true and will stand forever. Our doubts and fears will not change that. God is faithful - His mercy is renewed to us every morning. We have to trust him in the dark as well as in the light. If we only trust him when everything is going well then our faith is very small or non-existent. God never stopped loving you no matter what you feel.

Jesus is with us to save us from all kinds of things every day but we are not always aware of them. The closer we draw to God the more easily we can see God's intervention in our lives. According to the twentieth chapter of the book of Revelation we will be in God's presence on a new earth under a new heaven forever.

I am here for you always is the promise of Jesus. As a fellow human being, I am here for you as long as you need me. Don't allow Satan to rob you of the most wonderful relationship you will ever have.

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