I was raised by two people who were humble, very dedicated Christians. I saw so many people during my youth who were also devoted to Christ. It took me ten years of turning my back and questioning and looking at various other things, to cry out to Jesus Christ at age 25. I had a day in August 1984 when I literally changed mentally and spiritually 180 degree change after a short very heartfelt prayer to Christ. I am now 64. I hav been serving the Lord Jesus Christ for over 38 years because I know for certain that He answered my cry in 1984, and because I have known so much difference between people who really love Jesus Christ, and the rest of humanity. Nobody is perfect except Jesus, but those who follow Him without deliberate hypocrisy are the people keeping this world from completely falling apart. Jesus is real. He is the only one who can help us.
I'm 62 and from as far back as I can remember and until my late twenties I believed in Jesus and tried desperately to have him fill me with the holy spirit like I had seen happen to my family and friends around me. I was baptized when I was twelve and even went to the alter to be saved 3 different times in my teens and early twenties, all three times I came away not sure what happened, because despite truly wanting to be saved I felt nothing. Then in my late twenties I decided to read the entire Bible front to back straight through to see what I was doing wrong as I couldn't understand why Jesus wouldn't answer my prayers to fill me with the holy spirit. After reading it I wanted nothing to do with the God of Abraham or Jesus. The Bible showed me the real God of Abraham that no one told me about. In church according to the preacher and everyone else around me the Lord God was supposed to be loving and forgiving. Reading the Bible showed me otherwise, it showed me just how inhumane, jealous and vengeful the supposed God of Abraham really is, just read the Old Testament. I started asking people around me if they knew what the Bible says about the evil things God did and had Moses and the Israelites do, not to mention all the superstitious things we know today that are outright wrong. All I got from them is, that's not what it says, or I'm reading it wrong, or taking it out of context, the worst answer was God works in mysterious ways we don't understand. I read it for myself so I know what it says and I know the context. If there is a God of Abraham, according to the Bible his love comes with the condition you must believe he's real and with no evidence, or suffer in agony for eternity. In my mind that's not true love, it's more akin to a gangster insurance scheme. Pay (worship) me and you'll be protected from what I would do to you. It wasn't long after that I realized I had became an atheist because there just wasn't any real evidence that God and Jesus are real. In the years since, my position has only been reinforced by what I see so called "real" Christians do and say. Personally I think Christians are lying to themselves to save face with their peers, and/or they are confused by the rhetoric and gaslighting from their church, family, and friends. It's all a myth like all the other numerous Gods, religions, and superstitions from down through history until now. Why is your god any different than any other religious myths? Because it's the one you've been gaslighted into believing, and like me, the gaslighting probably started the day you were born by your family and peers. The church makes promises and threats that conveniently can only be realized after you're dead, and you just have to have faith because God works in mysterious ways we don't understand. Sorry, but after reading the Bible myself instead of letting the preacher pick and choose for me, I'm just not that gullible anymore. Now let us talk about faith. Most religions require faith. What is faith? Here's the Bible's interpretation of faith: Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Why do religions require faith? The reason religions require faith is because they have no evidence and rely on the gullibility of people. Now I realize it is only a myth from superstitious people of the bronze and iron ages, before people had the tools of science and high technology to help probe the truth of reality. I can't make you see reason and logic, I can only present it to you. It's up to you to see through the superstition and gaslighting of the religions in the world. I wish you well, and hope one day you'll open your eye's to the gaslighting of any and all religions.
That phrase comes from the ancient Jewish wisdom literature section of the Bible, attributed to the “Preacher”. Traditionally, interpreters of Ecclesiastes have identified the “Preacher,” who is also called “the son of David, king in Jerusalem” (1:1), as Israel’s King Solomon (from the tenth century B.C.). Ecclesiastes 3:11 He [God] has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
I was an atheist who turned to faith, and CS Lewis was a key part of the process. He showed me (as other apologetics have since) that being Christian doesn't equate to committing intellectual suicide. Fantastic video.
@joeturner9219 If I wasn't interested to understand how indoctrination and emotional need lead people to believe ancient myths, I would not be doing my duty to understand a popular phenomenon. In fact, I find it *fascinating* to see what adults will believe, especially when you get to them when they're young!
@@samcruz623 That makes as much sense as, if an atheist becomes a Christian they weren't really an atheist. I know a person that truly believed in Jesus since he could remember but then actually read the Bible and realized there's no way. It's just another myth cult from the bronze and iron ages that became institutionalized like Hinduism and all the other religions claiming to know the truth. Christianity is a blood cult, don't believe me. Why do you HAVE to be washed in the BLOOD of Jesus. Christianity is predicated on blood, suffering and sacrifice, but claims it's all about love, the definition of hypocrisy.
@@insanetubegain and often those storys are made up, like the biology prof. who sat next to Kent Hovind in a plane and was conviced by Hovind, that creation is true. Of course no one has ever seen this Prof. and no one knows his name...
I love stories like this as I can relate. I was was raised much like this man to believe in God. But at college I became an unapologetic atheist and remained so until about age 40. Then I began to challenge those beliefs, researched, learned, opened my eyes that there could be something more. It was a slow journey. I became a believer about 17 years ago but not a very devout one. Then about four years ago a failed medical procedure turned my world upside down and left me with two incurable chronic pain diseases that will give me excruciating pain every moment until I die. And I nearly did that as my bed-ridden body atrophied in bed. Through it all I found myself being drawn into a closer relationship with God instead of rebuking him for my predicament. Then one day as my hope was nearly gone, He spoke to me and told me that I still had purpose and work to be done. I didn’t fully understand then, as I do now, but He lent me His strength and willpower so that I could begin reclaiming some of my life that had been taken from me. I am able to work again and support my family. I can run errands and do small projects around the house. I do it all with constant pain but I am eternally grateful to be able to do it and not be imprisoned in my bed. Each day is a struggle but I can do anything through my Savior Jesus Christ. He has shown me my purpose, His purpose for my life. Purpose that would have never been revealed had I not had my ordeal. I have never been closer to God and I am at peace with my pain. I know that one day my mortal body will fail me and I will rise in my spiritual one to Heaven. To live a pain-free life full of joy and peace for all eternity. I pray for everyone to know what it’s like to have the Spirit of Christ living inside your heart. I can actually feel the physical difference in me. I just wish my eyes had been opened earlier in life. I feel like I have missed out on so much, but I guess that wasn’t God’s plan for me. God bless you all. 😊❤️🙏🏻
Too many people fail to ask Jesus to cure them because they are afraid. Even Jesus says to ask and it will be given to you. And Jesus goes on to say, persist if you don't get results right away. It might take weeks, months, or even years of prayer for your own healing, but I'm confident your persistence will pay off and Jesus will eventually heal you.
@@bobblacka918 thanks, brother. Yeah I control pray several times a day. I always pray for healing and pain relief but not just for me but all those out there who suffer so badly. Many have it worse than me. And I especially pray for the young ones dealing with this. My heart aches for them and I wish I could take their pain for them. I just look forward to a pain-free eternity in heaven when my time is up. God bless!
@@squallthegriever I have no idea where you have come to this back and forth notion but that’s ok. May God bless you anyways even in your un-belief. That’s what He did for me through many decades of rebuking Him, blessing and enriching my life in ways I didn’t, and still don’t, deserve. But that’s why people say “God is good”. Warm regards to you and I pray one day you can know in your brain, and feel in your heart exactly what I feel today. I used to scoff and laugh when I would hear people say that to me but now I know. Life changing is all I can say. God bless.
I think the very same think, but coming from the other camp. If only people could be intellectually honest with their beliefs, this would be a lot easier. A lot of it comes down to indoctrination tho, so it's not like im really blaming people for believing crazy things. It's hard to leave that behind.
Numbers 31: 17-18 17 "Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. 18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." Personally I think it's bad enough killing all the prisoners, doesn't sound like something we Americans would approve of, but it's pure evil to murder little boys and keep little virgin girls as spoils of war after a massacre. Why do you think the little girls had to be virgins? Sounds like sex slaves to me. Yeah... God is soooo good. Read the Bible for yourself without the preacher picking and choosing for you, as he's not going to tell you about all the horrible and evil things the Bible says God, Moses and Jesus did. Here's something your loving Jesus said. Matthew 10:34-36, 34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household."
@@ceedee873 What about the god of Bob? Or Katie? What about the god of Cee Dee? How many different gods are there? Oh, and how do you know about these gods?
I’ll just paste my testimony here if anyone is interested. I was born in a Christian family and one of my parent is a pastor. However I left the church when I was a teenager as I felt I don’t belong there. People judge me because I was not the way they expect a pastor’s child to be. So after I left the church, I did almost everything against the Bible. Many years later I even got into fortune telling and divination. One day after work I was going to buy a book for divination, but I saw a woman who kept looking at me. She looks like a nice person but the way she looked at me was really weird. I found my book I wanted and was about to go and pay for it. But this woman kept looking at me as if she was telling me to follow her, and there’s a voice in me telling me to go. So I did. I put down my fortune telling book and started walking over to her. And when I moved, she moved too.. So when I was at where she was, she disappeared. Then I looked infront of me, there was a bible. And all bibles were wrapped and slotted into the book shelves except this particular bible. It was facing me instead, and it was not wrapped. But it was closed. So a voice in me told me to open it. I opened it and went to Deuteronomy 13 and saw if there is any among you that could tell the future, and even if it comes true you shall not follow him because this is a test from God. I know that’s not exactly how the verse was, but that was what I saw that time. I had goosebumps all over after seeing it. So I checked the bible and see if anyone folded it but there was none. So I took a picture of that bible and i ran after that woman but she was nowhere to be found. All these Took less than 3 minutes, it’s impossible for her to disappear because there is no way for her to hide or run in such a short time and in that area where I am at. It wasn’t a dream or vision because I even took a picture of that bible which is why I later realised the words in the bible were not exactly the way I saw it the first time. In my heart I knew that was an angel, I just knew it. In fact I dreamt about her few years later flying with wings around some staircase. But I was a stubborn person. I continued fortune telling anyway. One day after work I went drinking with my friends and he brought a few of his ex colleagues along. He told me one of his ex colleagues there had spiritual eyes, she could see and hear spirits. She was telling my friends about what spirits are around and how the spirits are telling them their past and future correctly. So I was curious and I wanted to look into her life with divination. But strangely I can’t see much of her life compared to others, i was considered quite accurate with my fortune telling but this is the first time I don’t know what to say while looking at someone’s life chart. I was telling her I don’t know why her chart looks so weird and there’s not much information. Then she told me because my eyes were covered by spirits. There are 3 spirits following me due to my fortune telling. These spirits wants to use me. I’ve always had 6th sense and I do sometimes see different types of ghost or shadows. so I already knew things were following me. But to hear that out from her mouth was pretty uncomfortable to me still. But I tried to act calm, then she asked me what religion I belonged to. I said I’m a Christian (but I don’t really act like one) Then she looked at me and said “no, there’s no God in your heart.” She correctly pointed out who are the important ones in my heart. It’s the first time I met her and she got it correctly. I had two important ones in my heart, she named them both correctly. One of them is my dog. Which is really impossible to Guess correctly. I practice divination but I can’t tell what people think or know. She was able to say it correctly about what me and my Friends truly feel. So I was really amazed by her and to hide my embarrassment that she did not see God in me. I drank my beer and I was looking up the ceiling and in my heart. I said “ sorry God, she didn’t see you in me” I did it in my heart while drinking the beer and while looking at the ceiling. Then suddenly she told me loudly “there’s an angel beside you!” She told me this is the first time she saw an angel. Because she had never seen any Gods even though she was a Buddhist. She then told me what the angel wants to tell me. This angel said I should stop doing fortune telling for others and stop going to different masters to learn about my life. Because my life is in a book of God instead so people will not be able to tell my life correctly anyway. She also said my life wasn’t supposed to be like this. God had a plan for my life, but I chose to go my path instead. I immediately knew it’s the book of Life. She didn’t know because she’s not a Christian. But ever since I was young, for some reasons I don’t know.. I’ve always scribbled and draw a book with the letters “Book of Life” all over my textbooks and on papers whenever I am bored. Long story short after that experience I did not fully gave up fortune telling. But after some time I was determined to stop fortune telling. Then One night, I had a dream. I saw a man asking me why I want to quit fortune telling. I said I don’t want to continue anymore, he kept asking and I kept rejecting. Then he got so angry his head came off him and rushed to me. I normally could control my dream to my advantage but I wasn’t able to then. I didn’t know what to do so I said either Jesus or Jesus save me. Then a bright light came over me from the top, it was so bright it blinded my eyes. When I open my eyes again, I was in a room. I was sitting in a chair with a table that had breakfast, Jesus was sitting on my right side calmly eating. There was a half opened door infront of us, and a black hole/black portal in the middle of the half opened door. Many people were trying to come in, but they would walk into that black hole and get thrown out. It kept happening. I was terrified there, I was afraid of those that were trying to come in but I was more afraid of Jesus. Every time I tried to look at His face I was filled with fear. I felt so ashamed and so guilty when I saw him. So much so I wished I could hide my face in under the ground. So I could only kept looking at his sandals. He wore a white robe and he had a brownish red sash across. He had dark brown hair, with slight curl. He also had dark brown beard. But He looked very clean and neat. I don’t know how to explain it. It felt really Royal and Holy. I don’t know how to explain His face, because it filled me with fear when I look at Him. Then He spoke to me with a gentle yet firm voice. When He spoke to me it wasnt heard by my ears, I heard it in my chest/heart area loud and clear. It was as if it’s downloaded into me. He knew what I was thinking without me saying a single word. Which is when he said “Have faith, for I Am with you” Then I was still afraid while looking at those trying to rush in our room. Then He said again “Have faith, for they cannot hurt you” Then I saw a lady taking food in and I knew at that moment without His permission, no one can come in. Once I understood this, I woke up in this body. While I was there I had this sensation of rest in my body, when I woke up I still have that sensation. I couldn’t move because my body was so at rest, it’s different from sleep paralysis which I used to go through. This was so calm and peaceful. and the weirdest thing was I can’t remember who I am and why am I here(earth). It was as if my spirit was taken out and then put back to my body. It felt like this place (earth) is not the real place. It felt this place is more like a dream compared to where I was in Jesus’s presence. It felt more real there. It took me about a minute or so for my memories on earth to come back to me. After that I went drinking with that girl with spiritual eyes again. The first thing she said when she saw me was “ Have you seen God?!” I was shocked and asked her how did you know? Then she said Spirits all around are telling her that. She also said there’s a different angel beside me now. She was saying how tall they are and the genders are different. Can’t remember the first time was male or female. But one day I heard the Holy Spirit telling me I cannot rely on her anymore, i need to rely on God instead and that I will never see her again. And true enough, I couldn’t see her again due to some reasons. God Himself slowly changed me over the years. I used to have experiences with sleep paralysis and seeing spirits, and I realise the name of Jesus is indeed powerful and it works EVERY single time. I’ve also witnessed my Grandfather who died and was pronounced dead by the Doctors came back to life infront of me and my family when I was a teenager. He said heaven was really beautiful and that we have to believe in Jesus. Even though he still died 3 days later, many of my family members including myself was convinced God is real. I am no longer doing divination (not even horoscope) and I’ve changed a lot over the years as the Holy Spirit work in me. God has took away many of my past addictions I’ve had. I am not perfect yet, but I have a perfect God who will never give me up. Jesus is real and He loves us, He loves us even when we couldn’t love ourselves. Sometimes we hear from people how God is and we feel so distant from Him. But God is always waiting for us to come near to Him, because He loves you more than any kind of love you’ve ever known. Have faith in Him. Jesus loves you all. He is coming back soon. See you all one day in heaven/cloud. God bless you all
I read the C.S. Lewis book decades ago, after I had become a Christian, but for those who are "well educated" it really is a book for those who are questioning what real Christianity is. Great interview!
honestly, Christianity (a relationship with Christ) is something that has to be experienced. You can't explain it to somebody, it sounds completely ridiculous from an intellectual standpoint. This is why only the Holy Spirit can lead someone to Christ. We can't do it no matter how convincing we think we sound.
God makes the wise look like fools. I’ve sometimes heard that the problem with some with “high iq’s” is that they don’t know when they are wrong. They are blind to wisdom. Intelligence can be developed as well as sucking up all sources of knowledge. But that doesn’t equal truth or wisdom
Thoughts in your head and feelings in your chest are just thoughts in your head and feelings in your chest. People can attribute such thoughts and feelings to anything including ANY deity. Doesn't mean said deity exists.
There are a lot of evil people in churches is why so many Christians fall by the wayside. When you’re blessed and chosen, it attracts demonic spirits and Pharisees. Which is why we have to be very careful about what churches we follow and stick to Bible based. I’m so glad he shared his life changing story. A beautiful testimony that will inspire many that God is real! 🙏🏻
Praise God!!! I love it!!! I never get tired of hearing the heartfelt testimony of a personal conversion! It lights up my soul and melts my heart all at the same time. ❤️🔥
Agreed, but i don't like the word "conversion" it's not found in the Bible, Christianity is a covenant relationship with God and you don't "convert" into a relationship or covenant, you enter into it 🙂
What a touching testimony, leading to a wonderful transformation !! If we give peace a chance, and think conscientiously then, we will definitely be able to overcome all the delusions against Jesus and be able to accept Him as our Lord and Master !! This transformation of an atheist, is just too awe-inspiring and something through which we can see the grace and healing touch of the Lord, our Saviour and Master, and of His magnanimous power ! This will definitely instill in us the much needed faith and hope in the Lord, who in turn will never fail in keeping up to His commitment of rescuing us from the bondage of sin, and saving us from being perished eternally !! Thanks for sharing !! 🙏✝️❤️
Thank you for posting this as it will help so many people!! Let's keep trying to open the eyes of all those people who are still lost on this big blue earth!! God bless you all 😊✝
I'd also recommend Basic Christianity by John Stott and The Day Death Died by Michael Green, both of which played their part in my own conversion. He is risen!
according to the bible who was he risen for acts 5/29 /30/31 then Peter and the other apostles answered and said we ought to obey God rather than men the God of our fathers raised up yahawashi whom you murdered by hanging on a tree him God has exalted to his right hand to be prince and saviour to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins according to the bible the most high raised up yahawashi to give repentance to Israel never mention no other nation and forgiveness of sins
@@donaldcoleman514 Acts 28:28 (NIV) "Therefore I want you to know that God's salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!" Also, read Isaiah 56 to know about gentile salvation in the old testament.
What’s insane is this just got recommended to me by TH-cam algorithm. And I started reading that book a week ago very slowly. (Previous atheist) that just made me more excited about it.
Ananias Baptizes Saul …So Ananias went to the house, and when he arrived, he placed his hands on Saul. “Brother Saul,” he said, “the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” At that instant, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and his sight was restored. He got up and was baptized, and after taking some food, he regained his strength. And he spent several days with the disciples in Damascus.…Acts 9:17-19
The testimony is wonderful . I would like to say miseries are part of what we are leading thes we have to counter in prayers . I had got over number of occasions only the belief in Jesus helped me very much .Thanks for the testimony .
However this god had to kill every man , woman, children, animals except the mythical Noah's family, because there was so much sin??? If this god was all known, knows everything, all powerful, why did he have to commit global genocide? You would think he could do something else. It comes down to this, there is no evidence of a sky magician. Believe in the evidence and logic of science .
Woooooooow- he said he had built a bridge into my life and used to bring the gospel - and that touched me deeply!!!! It is the kindness of Jesus that brings people !!!
Chuck Colson of Watergate infamy and Nixon's legal aide (hatchet man) came to know the Lord after he was convicted of crimes associated with Watergate break-in and aftermath. He came to faith in the Lord on reading CS Lewis's "Mere Christianity" and wrote his own testimony "Born Again". . He was the founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries.
Beautiful testimony. Welcome to The Family ❣️ .. people often believe that God can just do what He wants. He can’t .. He’s bound by His own code of conduct (moral law). He won’t override peoples free will .. which if you think about it .. is a function of Love. 2 Peter 3:9 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. Instead He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
Thank you Adonai-Yeshua!!! Isaiah 59:17-21 tells us how God the Father was to come down in the Flesh, Messiah, to redeem us!! Revelation tells us the reveal of Christ Messiah as the ONE TRUE AND LIVING GOD!!! THE 1ST AND THE LAST!!! HALLELUJAH!! 🔥 🔥 🔥 ISAIAH 44:6-8 & REVELATION 22:13
CS Lewis became an atheist too. But he came back to his faith in God. Another atheist testified that she came to accept Jesus as Savior by reading The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. She identified with Edmund. Wonderful testimonies. May more receive Jesus as Savior.
I"ve been using LWW with my ESL students, as the basis for language study, identifying literary devices, evaluating etc, and the message is POWERFUL. Great for discussions around motives, character, a spiritual dimension/other world/Narnia, evil, redemption. What a gift!
My daughter ran away. By God’s grace she kept in contact with me. We had been in ministry. She ran to the people that were least like us. They became Christians. She said there was no God. When she saw the change in her boyfriend’s life, that was what showed her that God is real. I do have a son who has not found his way back to God yet. Please pray for him. For parents who are going through this, hang in there. It is such a painful scary thing to go through. I had kind of went through a period where I could not connect with people I did not know well. I got a phone call from a woman I had met but didn’t know. I simply was not in a place where I could develop new relationships. When I was trying to politely tell her that this was not a good time to get together she asked me if I needed prayer. She said she could not stop thinking about me. She lived on the other side of the country! I know how scary this is. I know what it is like to get a phone call at two in the morning because my daughter was hungry. We had told her she could come home but she had to live by our rules. I told her that if she was in danger call me and I would come and get her but I was so sorry I could not feed her. She did end up coming back and living under our rules. She is now a Mom who is teaching her children to follow God. She is an AWANA worker. There are so many stories that don’t have my happy ending. I want to say this. God absolutely positively adores your child. One thing I would say is I would say “you are better than that behavior” Putting it that way gives them nothing to throw against. It compliments the child rather than insult them. The other is don’t lecture them even though everything in you wants to. That way, the next time they get it wrong, they will be more willing to come to you.
Dang it, I wanted to hear more of his story. His wife woke up that morning to a whole new man, and then what? Did she freak out, was this a big 'ah-ha moment' for her too?
Now you are making me think of Lee Strobel's journey of faith, culminating in his book The Case for Christ. He has just come out with his latest, The Case For Heaven
God used that same book to remove the scales from my eyes, back in 1981. I had begun to sort of believe, and by the end of the book I was totally convinced.
The apostles would disagree. There are many times we see through the book of Acts evangelism outside of that dichotomy. It's not to say relational evangelism doesn't have it's place, but to say that is shouldn't be done outside of that, I believe goes beyond the clear teaching of Scripture. God bless.
@@michaelmelter2271 You know, Michael, you were correct to call me out on that. I did not mean that we should not do extemporaneous street preaching, however. What I meant was that we need that personal element in our preaching or evangelism in order for it to be most effective. But after thinking about it I had to agree with you, knowing from first hand experience that sometimes I DO NOT care about them UNTIL I start evangelizing. It's a strange phenomenon. So, you are absolutely correct and I should have hesitated before making such a blanket statement. One thing I am learning though is just how much actually caring about the person I am speaking with, as a person, elevated my effectiveness greatly. In fact, aside from trusting Jesus through His Holy Spirit, and learning the Biblical models for evangelism, it has to be the next most important element a believer must learn in evangelism. So, thanks for the correction.
@@CSUnger Of course, brother! Thanks for the solid reply and for taking my comment in the spirit I meant it. I absolutely agree that we must come from a place of love and genuine concern when sharing the Gospel, praying for the Spirit’s leading.
So relatable. I, too, was an atheist and was a mocker and scoffed at Jesus. Called it religion, minimized it, acted like science and technology represented nature, biology, and truth. Jesus is the Way. Subjective Truth and Moral Relativism when actually walked out begats the misery he spoke of. Those who walk that out honestly became like Nietzsche and sound like this man Nathan. If the atheist doesn't observe his own beliefs or theories than he is borrowing and not uploading his own conclusions
I agree. Reading C.S. Lewis or George McDonald is a great place to search out Who Jesus is. BTW, Lewis' book, "The Problem With Pain" explores the controversial issue of why bad things happen to good people. 😊
All I know from my conversion , unless Holy Spirit dwell in you , you will never realize there is God in the Bible . While I was living in postpartum depression and my husband’s cocaine addiction, I saw two bodiless demons hovering over my bedroom ceiling. Through all the supernatural phenomena, my husband went to drug rehab and I started to read the Bible and we both became Christians exactly same day and hour . It’s been 36 years ago and we are still praising our Savior Jesus Christ. I remember I witnessed to my Japanese friend who was an engineer and atheist . After I shared the gospel more than 40 minutes, he looking at my face and told me he doesn’t understand a word I said to him . I know cause “the spirit of stupor “ ( Romans 11:8 ) he will not understand till the Holy Spirit convicts him .
I never became an atheist but other than that my story is pretty close to his. Still struggling with the substance abuse but attempting detox is a few days. Please pray I make it through by the grace of God.
i once was...!!! i embraced everything marxist...!!! but my Lord turned me upside down!!! by His divine grace, am now an aspiring pastor shepherding a small community church!!! ☝🏽🙏🏾
I was brought up Catholic turned atheist at 14. I thought Christians were weird, annoying, and needed a moral guideline to base their life on so they made up a "god" and stories. I would get so irritated when they preached to me and didn't understand why they just couldn't accept we had different beliefs. I am skeptical and science motivated. I need to see, hear, touch etc...to believe. Like this man, at 33 I had the "scales fall of my eyes" in my bedroom in the middle of the night and woke up a completely different person. I could see and understand. I hungered for the Word. I started playing which I had previously seen as selfish and wishful thinking. Now I'll tell anyone who will listen about God. I love hearing others with similar stories. It validates that what I've experienced has happened to others.
"Now I'll tell anyone who will listen about God." Great, so you became the annoying, weird christian your 14yo self didn't like. Congrats on coming full circle and finally believing in fantasy stories.
The founder of AA said he just couldn't quench his thirst for alcohol, his spiritual advisor told him everybody has a thirst that can only be quenched by God.
The founder of AA was an occultist and the book he wrote was channeled to him by demons. There’s lots of information about this online if you’re interested.
The cross Jesus told us to bear is the hardships in our lives we will face in pursuing a meaningful and God fearing life. The lost souls are those who either suffer for nothing or those who avoid suffering at all costs.
He wasn't even an atheist in the first place. He literally says that he always believed in a god.....which is the ONE thing an atheist can not do. And these rubes slurp it up because it confirms their bias.
Which takes greater faith, something came from nothing or believing in a creator? How do you violate the Law of Entropy to get increased complexity from a single simple celled organism. Sounds like the atheists are the one who actually lost their minds.
@@RobertShannon-cu7iz The creator nonsense. Big time. Because nobody but you creator guys claim that something came from nothing. It's projection all the way down on your part. I don't have to invoke magic to go through the day, I can actually acknowledge when I don't know something. No need to invent magic men in the sky. Also, the second law of thermodynamics has absolutely nothing to do with development of cells. That's just a common quip you learned from your religious brainwashers who never understood science but try to use it to discredit science. Which is bloody hilarious. Earth is NOT a closed system. In case you haven't noticed, we have a giant ball of plasma creating sheer endless energy which is transported to us on earth, entirely shattering this infantile attempt at misusing science of yours. You have a grade school understanding of the topic and think you can disprove college professors.
This young man's story is very similar to that of Francis Collins. He was also seeking until he was given the same book by a pastor. God will open the door if we will only knock!
People should know about Francis Collins. He is an American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He is the former director of the National Institute of Health from August 2009 to December 2021, serving under three presidents . Before being appointed director of the NIH, Collins led the Human Genome Project and other genomics research initiatives as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Before joining NHGRI, he earned a reputation as a gene hunter at the University of Michigan. Was elected to the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science.
@@tonymercer7759 thanks for the brief but concise introduction to Francis Collins, which I omitted. Collins has since become one of the greatest Christian apologists of our time, through God's grace.
There are no true atheists. All believe in God. At some point, something traumatic happens in their lives that causes them to become angry with God. Just because you're angry, that doesn't make Him go away. Angry or not, He still loves you and wants you to return to Him. When you feel the call, don't ignore it. God bless.
As an atheist, I came into this with an open mind but I did not find it convincing. I empathize with this guy because his story sounds like mine. There's no doubt that when you're in the deepest, darkest times of your life, spirituality may save lives. But just because your spirituality helped you back from those dark places doesn't mean everything is true. A Hindu may have the same experience and find solace in their gods and feel they same feeling while praying. The answers are there, you just have to be willing to ask the questions.
Great testimony! Also, I would like to hear what sounds like might be act 3 of this story...Nathan had just said "his wife woke up to a completely different person, which in some way was (her) worst nightmare." I am betting she also has come to the Lord. Is that part of the testimony available somewhere?
What you need to understand is that you are not saved by association to a denomination any denomination, only through Christ Jesus can you get to the Father through faith and obedience, keep the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.👍🏻
@@mynameis757 A foundation of good works, and Obedience to God's commandments, laws, and statues is necessary to walk daily with Jesus. It's necessary because the spirit, heart, and mind feeds on what one does on a daily basis. Example, a person whom drinks on a daily basis. Years pass, the addiction has become stronger, and this addiction has new friends called drugs, laziness, ECT. Do you think this person will find Jesus, if he/she can't even get up from bed, except to drink? The first commandment says to love God above everything else. One needs to love Jesus with spirit, heart, and mind. If one fills one's spirit, heart, and mind with alcohol, drugs, porn, foul language, pride, ECT....this polluted self/ road will not lead to Jesus Christ.
Please pray for my son. He has also turned from God. I sit in sorrow for the lost relationship between him and me, and between him and his eternal Father. I love him so much but I can't reach him. I've been counseled on the healing steps that need to happen, and I wait on God to place that book, that sermon, that friend, or that experience in front of my son so he can know how much he is loved. My son won't let me tell him, so I'll say it here. I love you, Kid. You are so beautiful. I am proud of you. I'll wait as long as it takes.
He won't accept arguments for the existence of the Abrahamic deity? Argument being mere words whether written or spoken? Neither do I so I'll congratulate him for ditching one branch of mythology. He'll probably be happier and more content once he sheds any residual vestiges of mental conflict.
I am not at all surprised by this testimony, I have seen such "atheists" turn to religion. I have grown up listening to such testimonies in church. I have been an atheist for over 20 years, after being a devout evangelical christian well into my 20s. My entire immediate and extended family is christian and every once in a while, I get questions about what terrible thing happened that "destroyed my faith". I was always perplexed at why they would assume I had something bad happen to me. I have realized that from the Christian (or religious) POV, you become an atheist only when bad things happen. To me it seems that this gentleman's position was never carefully considered. He had loosely held beliefs about what God is and decided to walk away from it, which is not a carefully considered atheistic position at all. For someone with strong beliefs, it is extremely difficult to step out of the comfort of "sky man looking out for me", and face down "eternal hellfire and damnation". It's like trying to bungee jump despite knowing you are well secured, as every cell of your body is resisting it. My own journey to rejecting religion took 3-4 years. For anyone with loosely held positions, whether atheistic or religious, right wing or left wing, or anything else, its much easier to convince them one way or other.
I can relate. I was raised Catholic and never had any trauma or bad experiences but always struggled with doubt. It took me about 40 years to admit to myself I did not believe. The initial shock of losing my faith was painful but that passed pretty quickly. I soon realized how much emotional energy I had been expending trying to believe something that makes no sense. I am always open to new evidence for Christianity but C S Lewis' "liar, lunatic or lord" schtick certainly won't cut it.
@@aclark903 Not at all. There are plenty of brilliant Christians. Francis Collins being a prime example. My understanding is that Collins became a Christian because he was on a hike and saw a waterfall frozen in 3 columns and took it as a sign of the trinity. Even the most intelligent among us can believe things for bad reasons.
Please pray for my grandsons & granddaughter to know Jesus in their hearts & lives. I love this man's testimony. God bless everyone & prayers 🙏🏻 ✝️❤️ I wanted to hear the end of how his wife took it & if she excepted Christ?
As an atheist , this is really not how we think ... we are not "mad at god" , we do not "supress the truth" We genuinely dont think he or any gods exist And notice that this guy said that he believed , but just got mad at him... thats not what an atheist is Also, while being dependent on drugs is awful ,needing a crutch for the pain , or an exit , does NOT prove the existence of a god or gods , just because you believe god is that crutch or exit 6:30 "Everyone has a god shaped hole" Even if it was the case that humans had an emotional need to believe in a "higher power" that does not prove the existence of such a being As for CS Lewis' argument , I find it very strange that it would convince any genuine atheists... Its one of the weakest theistic arguments...
@@valkyrieloki1991 Nope , not all atheists think alike ... but definitionally , someone who believes in god but is mad at him is NOT an atheist , but a misotheist Its not a matter of all atheists thinking alike but a matter of atheists not believing in the existence of god by definition , in the same way there cant be a married bachelor ... a married person who hates their spouse is not a bachelor by definition , in the same way a theist who is mad at god is not an atheist by definition If you wanna describe the concept of hating god while acknowledging his existence , the word you are looking for , is misotheism
To be an atheist, you have to believe that something came from nothing. It is the single largest logical leap to ever make, and it takes 'faith' to truly believe it. The irony is Atheism requires more faith than creationism. Looking at creation you know there is a creator, something created our existence. It really is just that simple. There are many facets of turning to religion and specifically Christianity, but the very first is becoming a theist. And the question any atheist has to tackle, is how could everything come from nothing? If the answer is that SOMETHING had to create it, at the very least you then believe ina creating power./force/something. Nothing comes from nothing. reversed something and nothing in first sentence accidentally.
@@ew6230 I see you read from the apologist script Believing that something can come from nothing is an entirely separate question from the only one that matters in defininh who is an atheist : "Do you believe in the existence of a god or gods ?" Most atheists , on the creation on the universe , usually say that they don't know how it all started , and I am one of them, we do not make up an answer like ... some people... Also , most Christians believe that something indeed came from nothing, God , if you cant answer "What caused god? " you are in no place to lecture atheists about how they "believe something can come from nothing" So no, atheism requires no faith... but I am glad you finally consider faith a bad thing, since you try to use "atheism requires more faith than creationism" as an argument against atheism, even if you are wrong about this instance , you are right that faith is a bad thing "Looking at creation" thats begging the question, you dont get to call it creation until you can demonstrate a "creator" , you are just making the mistake of defining god into existence, sorry , thats not how this works, things dont just "exist by definition" "The atheist gas to answer" Im gonna stop you right there , all atheism is , is the lack of belief in a god or gods , we dont have to answer any other question to be atheists... as for your question itself , if you ask us this question, you have to answer "what caused god" or "why is there god rather than nothing" Als dont put words into my mouth ,i NEVER said "SOMETHING had to create it" as an answer to your question , I simply dont have to know everything that there is about the universe to lack a belief in the existence of a god or gods , and I dont like making up an answer , like theists do Finally, Quantum Mechanics has demonstrated the existence of particles coming into existence uncaused... you might not consider empty vaccum to be "nothing" because empty space might be considered something, but it is FACT that we have objerved obects coming into existence UNCAUSED
@@mariolis the answer for God is that he is timeless, spaceless, etc. because to create time and space yoy must be beyond it, and that is beyond our bounded understanding. any creator would have these properties
I also used to be an atheist. But then I understood that I am not just a meaningless piece of matter that would just perish. It took me a couple of years but I finally saw the truth. The turning point was a near death experience when got into a car accident during my uni years. Not only that but after I got better I saw how everybody really cared about me, loved me. I don't think that is what made me believe, I always understood it but didn't want to accept it. I mean why me? Why am I experiencing all this and not someone else? Why these eyes have to endure these? The only logical answer I could've come to is that in reality I am the god, the one that should be worshipped, the person for whom the world exists. I am the only higher power and everybody should love me. I will pray to myself that you will accept your true Lord and Savior. Sorry, English is not my first language.
38 seconds into the video totally debunks the title of this video..Just for your information, You cannot call yourself an Athiest if you hold a belief that god always existed such as this fake Athiest stated in the start of the video..
1. I was an atheist. 2. Then , all of a sudden, I lost everything in my life, and that's when I found Jesus. That's it. You just have to admit that you cannot deal with life as an adult to become a believer.
Hahahaha 🤣 And all you need to do to be an athiest is ignore the staggering elements of design in every facet of creation, all accounts throughout all time and regions of the world of all supernatural phenomena, the fact that all ancient people groups have always believed in heaven, Hell, spirits, demons and gods, and the fact that scripture is replete with fulfilled prophecy that is demonstrably true and archeologicalky verifiable. 1400 years before Jesus Christ walked the Earth, the Old Testament prophecied that through the Messiah, the whole world would know the One True God. Wow. Lucky guess, I suppose. To believe the universe was not created is literally the most ignorant position one could possibly hold. You have a better chance of being struck by lightning 30 times than a protein has of randomly assembling itself from peptides and amino acids in ideal laboratory conditions, but you think that it somehow happened in the vacuum of space, with any given chaos, in the perfect order, in the perfect timing to create life when it's never been shown to be true. Absolute bonkers levels of delusion. Chemistry, physics and mathematics must have preceded the universe in order for the universe to exist. Do you understand that? You would never be so daft as to look at a book and say it created itself, but you look at an infinity more complex strand of DNA and think that somehow, it must have created itself. That order must have came from chaos, even though, *all evidence ever points to the fact that nothing works like that* Oh well. Keep banking on how mature you are. 😆
I've read the book and I am still an atheist because I think it matters what you know before you read it. I suppose Nathan could be considered an atheist but he is not the typical atheist but rather a scorned theist that temporarily took a break. It's not really a God shaped hole because even theists can and often have this hole. You can be told God has a purpose for your life and that can provide some relief, but until you realize your purpose, the hole remains. Atheists and agnostics also find purpose and meaning in life and many of them can have that hole while they figure that out. People find purpose and meaning in other religions and philosophies so it's not strictly a Christian thing or we would all be Christians if that that was the only way to have purpose and meaning in our lives. If I had to pinpoint the cause of the hole in people's lives, it's living in a world that stifles the human spirit and causes one to feel trapped. In other words, we live in a world of people telling us who we should be rather than being ourselves. Some people turn to drugs and alcohol to get away from that world, but soon learn it just makes things worse.
@@Herbertl_Lee Yes the book I am referring to is the bible, which is technically a collection of books. In terms of what you know, a reader will have a different impression of reading Matthew and Luke knowing they used Mark's Gospel as a source rather than being eyewitness accounts.
I'm an atheist but I'm skeptical of this story (who could see that coming? lol.) But this story is odd. He was a Christian, maybe not devout, but a Christian nonetheless. Then he has a bad break-up and blames God and decides he'll be an atheist. This is a bad reason, like a very, very bad reason to not believe in a god of any kind. There are so many good reasons to be skeptical. But a bad breakup has no logical impact on the existence of anything--other than a relationship. The fact that a girlfriend might have cheated on me has nothing to do with whether or not Harry Potter exists as a real person. Then, the same thing happens for his conversion back to Christianity. All of this falls into the "atheists are just mad at god" trope. Maybe that's how this guy was. But most of us just don't find it convincing. To me, there's no difference between Greek Mythology and Christianity. They're both myths that seek to explain the world and our place in it.
No Atheist has ever been convinced of Jesus by reading the Bible. You don't even understand what an Atheist is and keep applying it to a person who believes there is a God and chooses to reject God, that's not an Atheist, that's a Christian who's mad at God. A true Atheist does not believe there is a God, that's what it means. Unless you can prove a God exists which you can't the Bible would only convince us there isn't a God due to the inherent contradictions it contains.
I was a Christian, now an atheist. No signs of needing or wanting to turn back. I can appreciate how the church helps people, and am grateful to so many good people who gave me tools to unpack and deal with my junk. But now that I’m out, I find no Jesus is required, just community. So, if you simply cannot find community, for good or for bad, maybe you do “need Jesus” and I judge so many people aren’t actually willing to sit in the uncomfortable, so grace and mercy that Christianity tries to offer may just be the thing that keeps you going.
@@Herbertl_Lee - probably not enough to pass your test given the loaded question that this usually ends up being, in my experience. But I'll play along and start with the fact that I said, with conviction & belief, every Sunday, the words of the Nicene Creed. If you have a specific question(s) that you need a specific answer(s) to, we can try playing that game... The thing I find interesting when doing this exercise with others, is how little one requires of people IN the faith to offer satisfactory defense of their belief, only the bare minimum to be counted as one who can be a tither.
@@ardbegthequestion I see. May I ask how old are you when you decide to become an atheist, What you hated most as an christian back then, and what make you decide its time to move on？Do you have any questions you want to ask for Christianity? Please only answer those you feel comfortable without. I am currently writing a paper on these subjects. Thank you for your time and much appreciated ☺️
@@Herbertl_Lee - well first off, I think you’ll find most Christian who leave faith don’t “decide” to become an atheist. It’s a process of what most liken to “a death by a thousand cuts”. For me, I started to really engage during a season of questions and doubts, and at some point, as much as I tried and desperately wanted to, I found myself having to just let go. I was a proclaimed Christian for over 30 years and left in 2016 at age 41. I left because every facet of my face was touched by questions that had either incoherent, contradictory or unsatisfactory answers. It was only when I opened myself up to allowing something else to be true, that I found the answers that led me away, so do I have questions for Christianity? Not really. Leaving Faith no longer is tied to theological questions . It’s quite simply that the Christian God would have to be demonstrated to me in such a manner to overcome the mount of evidence and experiences against it. To me, this can only be achieved by that God himself of which, if he existed, shows little interest in actually interacting in such a manner.
He wasn't an atheist, he believed in God throughout his childhood. He got angry at God, then later came back. As a lifelong atheist this is a poor example of a conversion...and a clickbait title. Nice try.
The most convincing book about Christianity I have ever read was " The Four Witnesses " by very early converts who were taught either by a disciple of Christ or one removed. These were intellectuals and early church fathers who wrote extensively and were martyred. One had been a philosopher of stoicism and a friend of the future emperor Marcus Aurelius in his youth and tried to convert him later in life. . The beliefs taught to the catechumens is exactly the same as Christians hold today . This is way before the Gospel was laid out as we know it today ....a really great book.
I was raised by two people who were humble, very dedicated Christians. I saw so many people during my youth who were also devoted to Christ. It took me ten years of turning my back and questioning and looking at various other things, to cry out to Jesus Christ at age 25. I had a day in August 1984 when I literally changed mentally and spiritually 180 degree change after a short very heartfelt prayer to Christ. I am now 64. I hav been serving the Lord Jesus Christ for over 38 years because I know for certain that He answered my cry in 1984, and because I have known so much difference between people who really love Jesus Christ, and the rest of humanity. Nobody is perfect except Jesus, but those who follow Him without deliberate hypocrisy are the people keeping this world from completely falling apart. Jesus is real. He is the only one who can help us.
Beautiful ❤
64, and you are still believing an ancient superstition? It's astounding how willing people are to deceive themselves.
Nice coping mechanism.
I'm 62 and from as far back as I can remember and until my late twenties I believed in Jesus and tried desperately to have him fill me with the holy spirit like I had seen happen to my family and friends around me. I was baptized when I was twelve and even went to the alter to be saved 3 different times in my teens and early twenties, all three times I came away not sure what happened, because despite truly wanting to be saved I felt nothing. Then in my late twenties I decided to read the entire Bible front to back straight through to see what I was doing wrong as I couldn't understand why Jesus wouldn't answer my prayers to fill me with the holy spirit. After reading it I wanted nothing to do with the God of Abraham or Jesus. The Bible showed me the real God of Abraham that no one told me about. In church according to the preacher and everyone else around me the Lord God was supposed to be loving and forgiving. Reading the Bible showed me otherwise, it showed me just how inhumane, jealous and vengeful the supposed God of Abraham really is, just read the Old Testament. I started asking people around me if they knew what the Bible says about the evil things God did and had Moses and the Israelites do, not to mention all the superstitious things we know today that are outright wrong. All I got from them is, that's not what it says, or I'm reading it wrong, or taking it out of context, the worst answer was God works in mysterious ways we don't understand. I read it for myself so I know what it says and I know the context. If there is a God of Abraham, according to the Bible his love comes with the condition you must believe he's real and with no evidence, or suffer in agony for eternity. In my mind that's not true love, it's more akin to a gangster insurance scheme. Pay (worship) me and you'll be protected from what I would do to you. It wasn't long after that I realized I had became an atheist because there just wasn't any real evidence that God and Jesus are real. In the years since, my position has only been reinforced by what I see so called "real" Christians do and say. Personally I think Christians are lying to themselves to save face with their peers, and/or they are confused by the rhetoric and gaslighting from their church, family, and friends. It's all a myth like all the other numerous Gods, religions, and superstitions from down through history until now. Why is your god any different than any other religious myths? Because it's the one you've been gaslighted into believing, and like me, the gaslighting probably started the day you were born by your family and peers. The church makes promises and threats that conveniently can only be realized after you're dead, and you just have to have faith because God works in mysterious ways we don't understand. Sorry, but after reading the Bible myself instead of letting the preacher pick and choose for me, I'm just not that gullible anymore. Now let us talk about faith. Most religions require faith. What is faith? Here's the Bible's interpretation of faith: Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Why do religions require faith? The reason religions require faith is because they have no evidence and rely on the gullibility of people. Now I realize it is only a myth from superstitious people of the bronze and iron ages, before people had the tools of science and high technology to help probe the truth of reality. I can't make you see reason and logic, I can only present it to you. It's up to you to see through the superstition and gaslighting of the religions in the world. I wish you well, and hope one day you'll open your eye's to the gaslighting of any and all religions.
The biggest scam is to tell people they're born in sin and there's a better place after death, but to be saved a spot they must make donations.
"We all have eternity in our hearts" I love that ❤️
That phrase comes from the ancient Jewish wisdom literature section of the Bible, attributed to the “Preacher”. Traditionally, interpreters of Ecclesiastes have identified the “Preacher,” who is also called “the son of David, king in Jerusalem” (1:1), as Israel’s King Solomon (from the tenth century B.C.).
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He [God] has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
I was an atheist who turned to faith, and CS Lewis was a key part of the process. He showed me (as other apologetics have since) that being Christian doesn't equate to committing intellectual suicide. Fantastic video.
Thank you for sharing that.
Lewis had poor arguments. Why did you turn to "faith"? No one should have it. It's an absurd concept.
@@chikkipopwhy are you viewing this channel if you believe that?
@@louangesaves3481 I don't understand. Should I *NOT* be interested?!
@joeturner9219 If I wasn't interested to understand how indoctrination and emotional need lead people to believe ancient myths, I would not be doing my duty to understand a popular phenomenon. In fact, I find it *fascinating* to see what adults will believe, especially when you get to them when they're young!
Atheists make some of the best and most devoted Christians after they discover Jesus.
It is more common for a Christian to be come an atheist, than the other way around. An atheist becoming a Christian is actually a rare thing.
@@insanetubegain if a Christian becomes an atheist, they weren't really a Christian. :)
@@samcruz623 That makes as much sense as, if an atheist becomes a Christian they weren't really an atheist. I know a person that truly believed in Jesus since he could remember but then actually read the Bible and realized there's no way. It's just another myth cult from the bronze and iron ages that became institutionalized like Hinduism and all the other religions claiming to know the truth. Christianity is a blood cult, don't believe me. Why do you HAVE to be washed in the BLOOD of Jesus. Christianity is predicated on blood, suffering and sacrifice, but claims it's all about love, the definition of hypocrisy.
@@insanetubegain and often those storys are made up, like the biology prof. who sat next to Kent Hovind in a plane and was conviced by Hovind, that creation is true. Of course no one has ever seen this Prof. and no one knows his name...
@@insanetubegain no Christian has ever become an atheist, but a lot of "Christians" have.
I love stories like this as I can relate. I was was raised much like this man to believe in God. But at college I became an unapologetic atheist and remained so until about age 40. Then I began to challenge those beliefs, researched, learned, opened my eyes that there could be something more. It was a slow journey. I became a believer about 17 years ago but not a very devout one. Then about four years ago a failed medical procedure turned my world upside down and left me with two incurable chronic pain diseases that will give me excruciating pain every moment until I die. And I nearly did that as my bed-ridden body atrophied in bed. Through it all I found myself being drawn into a closer relationship with God instead of rebuking him for my predicament. Then one day as my hope was nearly gone, He spoke to me and told me that I still had purpose and work to be done. I didn’t fully understand then, as I do now, but He lent me His strength and willpower so that I could begin reclaiming some of my life that had been taken from me. I am able to work again and support my family. I can run errands and do small projects around the house. I do it all with constant pain but I am eternally grateful to be able to do it and not be imprisoned in my bed. Each day is a struggle but I can do anything through my Savior Jesus Christ. He has shown me my purpose, His purpose for my life. Purpose that would have never been revealed had I not had my ordeal. I have never been closer to God and I am at peace with my pain. I know that one day my mortal body will fail me and I will rise in my spiritual one to Heaven. To live a pain-free life full of joy and peace for all eternity. I pray for everyone to know what it’s like to have the Spirit of Christ living inside your heart. I can actually feel the physical difference in me. I just wish my eyes had been opened earlier in life. I feel like I have missed out on so much, but I guess that wasn’t God’s plan for me. God bless you all. 😊❤️🙏🏻
Too many people fail to ask Jesus to cure them because they are afraid. Even Jesus says to ask and it will be given to you. And Jesus goes on to say, persist if you don't get results right away. It might take weeks, months, or even years of prayer for your own healing, but I'm confident your persistence will pay off and Jesus will eventually heal you.
@@bobblacka918 thanks, brother. Yeah I control pray several times a day. I always pray for healing and pain relief but not just for me but all those out there who suffer so badly. Many have it worse than me. And I especially pray for the young ones dealing with this. My heart aches for them and I wish I could take their pain for them. I just look forward to a pain-free eternity in heaven when my time is up. God bless!
Bless you, brother.
So you went by brain washing to logical thinking to brain washed again. Got it.
@@squallthegriever I have no idea where you have come to this back and forth notion but that’s ok. May God bless you anyways even in your un-belief. That’s what He did for me through many decades of rebuking Him, blessing and enriching my life in ways I didn’t, and still don’t, deserve. But that’s why people say “God is good”. Warm regards to you and I pray one day you can know in your brain, and feel in your heart exactly what I feel today. I used to scoff and laugh when I would hear people say that to me but now I know. Life changing is all I can say. God bless.
The honesty and simplicity of his testimony is refreshing and encouraging. There is hope if people can just be honest.
Hope for what?
Chery picking and making ones own make of God is not true testimony.
I think the very same think, but coming from the other camp. If only people could be intellectually honest with their beliefs, this would be a lot easier. A lot of it comes down to indoctrination tho, so it's not like im really blaming people for believing crazy things. It's hard to leave that behind.
Not a chance with christians
I love that "he was the most opposite of her father"; the pastor.... and then he ended up becoming a pastor!! God is so good
Numbers 31: 17-18 17 "Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. 18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."
Personally I think it's bad enough killing all the prisoners, doesn't sound like something we Americans would approve of, but it's pure evil to murder little boys and keep little virgin girls as spoils of war after a massacre. Why do you think the little girls had to be virgins? Sounds like sex slaves to me. Yeah... God is soooo good. Read the Bible for yourself without the preacher picking and choosing for you, as he's not going to tell you about all the horrible and evil things the Bible says God, Moses and Jesus did. Here's something your loving Jesus said. Matthew 10:34-36, 34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household."
What god?
SHORT COMINGS Thinking they last .
@@chikkipop The God of Jacob.
@@ceedee873 What about the god of Bob? Or Katie? What about the god of Cee Dee? How many different gods are there? Oh, and how do you know about these gods?
I’ll just paste my testimony here if anyone is interested.
I was born in a Christian family and
one of my parent is a pastor.
However I left the church when I was a teenager as I felt I don’t belong there. People judge me because I was not the way they expect a pastor’s child to be.
So after I left the church, I did almost everything against the Bible.
Many years later I even got into fortune telling and divination.
One day after work I was going to buy a book for divination, but I saw a woman who kept looking at me. She looks like a nice person but the way she looked at me was really weird.
I found my book I wanted and was about to go and pay for it. But this woman kept looking at me as if she was telling me to follow her, and there’s a voice in me telling me to go.
So I did.
I put down my fortune telling book and started walking over to her.
And when I moved, she moved too..
So when I was at where she was, she disappeared.
Then I looked infront of me, there was a bible. And all bibles were wrapped and slotted into the book shelves except this particular bible.
It was facing me instead, and it was not wrapped. But it was closed.
So a voice in me told me to open it.
I opened it and went to Deuteronomy 13 and saw if there is any among you that could tell the future, and even if it comes true you shall not follow him because this is a test from God.
I know that’s not exactly how the verse was, but that was what I saw that time.
I had goosebumps all over after seeing it.
So I checked the bible and see if anyone folded it but there was none. So I took a picture of that bible and i ran after that woman but she was nowhere to be found.
All these Took less than 3 minutes, it’s impossible for her to disappear because there is no way for her to hide or run in such a short time and in that area where I am at.
It wasn’t a dream or vision because I even took a picture of that bible which is why I later realised the words in the bible were not exactly the way I saw it the first time.
In my heart I knew that was an angel, I just knew it. In fact I dreamt about her few years later flying with wings around some staircase.
But I was a stubborn person. I continued fortune telling anyway.
One day after work I went drinking with my friends and he brought a few of his ex colleagues along.
He told me one of his ex colleagues there had spiritual eyes, she could see and hear spirits.
She was telling my friends about what spirits are around and how the spirits are telling them their past and future correctly.
So I was curious and I wanted to look into her life with divination.
But strangely I can’t see much of her life compared to others, i was considered quite accurate with my fortune telling but this is the first time I don’t know what to say while looking at someone’s life chart.
I was telling her I don’t know why her chart looks so weird and there’s not much information. Then she told me because my eyes were covered by spirits. There are 3 spirits following me due to my fortune telling. These spirits wants to use me.
I’ve always had 6th sense and I do sometimes see different types of ghost or shadows.
so I already knew things were following me. But to hear that out from her mouth was pretty uncomfortable to me still.
But I tried to act calm, then she asked me what religion I belonged to.
I said I’m a Christian (but I don’t really act like one)
Then she looked at me and said “no, there’s no God in your heart.”
She correctly pointed out who are the important ones in my heart.
It’s the first time I met her and she got it correctly. I had two important ones in my heart, she named them both correctly. One of them is my dog. Which is really impossible to Guess correctly.
I practice divination but I can’t tell what people think or know. She was able to say it correctly about what me and my Friends truly feel.
So I was really amazed by her and to hide my embarrassment that she did not see God in me. I drank my beer and I was looking up the ceiling and in my heart. I said “ sorry God, she didn’t see you in me”
I did it in my heart while drinking the beer and while looking at the ceiling. Then suddenly she told me loudly “there’s an angel beside you!”
She told me this is the first time she saw an angel. Because she had never seen any Gods even though she was a Buddhist.
She then told me what the angel wants to tell me.
This angel said I should stop doing fortune telling for others and stop going to different masters to learn about my life. Because my life is in a book of God instead so people will not be able to tell my life correctly anyway.
She also said my life wasn’t supposed to be like this. God had a plan for my life, but I chose to go my path instead.
I immediately knew it’s the book of Life. She didn’t know because she’s not a Christian. But ever since I was young, for some reasons I don’t know.. I’ve always scribbled and draw a book with the letters “Book of Life” all over my textbooks and on papers whenever I am bored.
Long story short after that experience I did not fully gave up fortune telling. But after some time I was determined to stop fortune telling.
Then One night, I had a dream. I saw a man asking me why I want to quit fortune telling. I said I don’t want to continue anymore, he kept asking and I kept rejecting.
Then he got so angry his head came off him and rushed to me.
I normally could control my dream to my advantage but I wasn’t able to then.
I didn’t know what to do so I said either Jesus or Jesus save me.
Then a bright light came over me from the top, it was so bright it blinded my eyes.
When I open my eyes again, I was in a room.
I was sitting in a chair with a table that had breakfast, Jesus was sitting on my right side calmly eating.
There was a half opened door infront of us, and a black hole/black portal in the middle of the half opened door.
Many people were trying to come in, but they would walk into that black hole and get thrown out. It kept happening.
I was terrified there, I was afraid of those that were trying to come in but I was more afraid of Jesus. Every time I tried to look at His face I was filled with fear.
I felt so ashamed and so guilty when I saw him.
So much so I wished I could hide my face in under the ground.
So I could only kept looking at his sandals.
He wore a white robe and he had a brownish red sash across.
He had dark brown hair, with slight curl.
He also had dark brown beard. But He looked very clean and neat. I don’t know how to explain it. It felt really Royal and Holy.
I don’t know how to explain His face, because it filled me with fear when I look at Him.
Then He spoke to me with a gentle yet firm voice.
When He spoke to me it wasnt heard by my ears, I heard it in my chest/heart area loud and clear. It was as if it’s downloaded into me.
He knew what I was thinking without me saying a single word.
Which is when he said “Have faith, for I Am with you”
Then I was still afraid while looking at those trying to rush in our room.
Then He said again “Have faith, for they cannot hurt you”
Then I saw a lady taking food in and I knew at that moment without His permission, no one can come in.
Once I understood this, I woke up in this body.
While I was there I had this sensation of rest in my body, when I woke up I still have that sensation.
I couldn’t move because my body was so at rest, it’s different from sleep paralysis which I used to go through.
This was so calm and peaceful.
and the weirdest thing was I can’t remember who I am and why am I here(earth).
It was as if my spirit was taken out and then put back to my body.
It felt like this place (earth) is not the real place.
It felt this place is more like a dream compared to where I was in Jesus’s presence.
It felt more real there.
It took me about a minute or so for my memories on earth to come back to me.
After that I went drinking with that girl with spiritual eyes again. The first thing she said when she saw me was “ Have you seen God?!”
I was shocked and asked her how did you know? Then she said Spirits all around are telling her that.
She also said there’s a different angel beside me now. She was saying how tall they are and the genders are different. Can’t remember the first time was male or female.
But one day I heard the Holy Spirit telling me I cannot rely on her anymore, i need to rely on God instead and that I will never see her again.
And true enough, I couldn’t see her again due to some reasons.
God Himself slowly changed me over the years.
I used to have experiences with sleep paralysis and seeing spirits, and I realise the name of Jesus is indeed powerful and it works EVERY single time.
I’ve also witnessed my Grandfather who died and was pronounced dead by the Doctors came back to life infront of me and my family when I was a teenager.
He said heaven was really beautiful and that we have to believe in Jesus.
Even though he still died 3 days later, many of my family members including myself was convinced God is real.
I am no longer doing divination (not even horoscope) and I’ve changed a lot over the years as the Holy Spirit work in me.
God has took away many of my past addictions I’ve had. I am not perfect yet, but I have a perfect God who will never give me up.
Jesus is real and He loves us, He loves us even when we couldn’t love ourselves.
Sometimes we hear from people how God is and we feel so distant from Him. But God is always waiting for us to come near to Him, because He loves you more than any kind of love you’ve ever known.
Have faith in Him. Jesus loves you all.
He is coming back soon. See you all one day in heaven/cloud.
God bless you all
fuck sake..
It would have helped for readability to separate the post into chapters.
Thank you for sharing!!
That’s Heavy! Thank you for sharing and welcome back!
Love it
I read the C.S. Lewis book decades ago, after I had become a Christian, but for those who are "well educated" it really is a book for those who are questioning what real Christianity is. Great interview!
@@chimwemwekombe6638 He tells you in the video. It's "Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.
@@catherinemelnyk thanks didn't get it
@@chimwemwekombe6638 A womderful book and a most intetesting man...
@@chimwemwekombe6638 See the movie Shadowland with Anthony Hopkins portrayal of Lewis.
@@catherinemelnyk I will do so thanks for the recommendation
honestly, Christianity (a relationship with Christ) is something that has to be experienced. You can't explain it to somebody, it sounds completely ridiculous from an intellectual standpoint. This is why only the Holy Spirit can lead someone to Christ. We can't do it no matter how convincing we think we sound.
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1 Cor 1:18; "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God."
God makes the wise look like fools. I’ve sometimes heard that the problem with some with “high iq’s” is that they don’t know when they are wrong. They are blind to wisdom. Intelligence can be developed as well as sucking up all sources of knowledge. But that doesn’t equal truth or wisdom
Thoughts in your head and feelings in your chest are just thoughts in your head and feelings in your chest. People can attribute such thoughts and feelings to anything including ANY deity. Doesn't mean said deity exists.
@@duncanbryson1167 LMAO exactly what I mean
There are a lot of evil people in churches is why so many Christians fall by the wayside. When you’re blessed and chosen, it attracts demonic spirits and Pharisees. Which is why we have to be very careful about what churches we follow and stick to Bible based. I’m so glad he shared his life changing story. A beautiful testimony that will inspire many that God is real! 🙏🏻
Praise God!!! I love it!!! I never get tired of hearing the heartfelt testimony of a personal conversion! It lights up my soul and melts my heart all at the same time. ❤️🔥
Agreed, but i don't like the word "conversion" it's not found in the Bible, Christianity is a covenant relationship with God and you don't "convert" into a relationship or covenant, you enter into it 🙂
@King Reginald that's a very good point. Born again is the closest thing to it and I believe that's 100% biblical because John chapter 3 and all.
What a touching testimony, leading to a wonderful transformation !!
If we give peace a chance, and think conscientiously then, we will definitely be able to overcome all the delusions against Jesus and be able to accept Him as our Lord and Master !!
This transformation of an atheist, is just too awe-inspiring and something through which we can see the grace and healing touch of the Lord, our Saviour and Master, and of His magnanimous power !
This will definitely instill in us the much needed faith and hope in the Lord, who in turn will never fail in keeping up to His commitment of rescuing us from the bondage of sin,
and saving us from being perished eternally !!
Thanks for sharing !! 🙏✝️❤️
Well...Lewis is one of the very best. Praise God!
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Thank you for posting this as it will help so many people!! Let's keep trying to open the eyes of all those people who are still lost on this big blue earth!! God bless you all 😊✝
This made me cry this beautiful man looks like my son .A great testimony Lord bring my luke to faith 👨🎓🙏😇
May the Lord place His hand of grace and mercy upon your son and overwhelm him with His love and open his heart and eyes to Jesus Christ!
@@InfinitEternaLovEmmanuel thankyou bless 🇬🇧🏴
I stand with you in agreement, dear Caroline Norman . Amen
God is so faithful & merciful ❤️
Praying for Luke
@@Lord9Genesis bless you 👨🎓🏴🇬🇧
The scales fell off my eyes - my exact words too!
I'd also recommend Basic Christianity by John Stott and The Day Death Died by Michael Green, both of which played their part in my own conversion. He is risen!
He is risen indeed!
according to the bible who was he risen for acts 5/29 /30/31 then Peter and the other apostles answered and said we ought to obey God rather than men the God of our fathers raised up yahawashi whom you murdered by hanging on a tree him God has exalted to his right hand to be prince and saviour to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins according to the bible the most high raised up yahawashi to give repentance to Israel never mention no other nation and forgiveness of sins
@@donaldcoleman514 Acts 28:28 (NIV) "Therefore I want you to know that God's salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!" Also, read Isaiah 56 to know about gentile salvation in the old testament.
@@donaldcoleman514 They were talking to Jews, that's the context.
He is risen, Amen ✝️🛐❤️🙏
What an incredible story of mercy and redemption! Thank you so much for sharing this! Glory to God!
What’s insane is this just got recommended to me by TH-cam algorithm. And I started reading that book a week ago very slowly. (Previous atheist) that just made me more excited about it.
Mere Christianity changed my thinking big time. I was agonostic but it lays down a very good frame work that makes a ton of sense for Christianity.
God’s path is one of love and He will lead you down paths that make sense to you.
@@bigdogalldayeveryday Senslessness brain wired honesty or just dishonesty. INTEGRITY is gone.
Ananias Baptizes Saul
…So Ananias went to the house, and when he arrived, he placed his hands on Saul. “Brother Saul,” he said, “the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” At that instant, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and his sight was restored. He got up and was baptized, and after taking some food, he regained his strength. And he spent several days with the disciples in Damascus.…Acts 9:17-19
Interestingly, it seems he continued to have some problem with his eyesight. Maybe as a reminder to keep him humble.
The testimony is wonderful . I would like to say miseries are part of what we are leading thes we have to counter in prayers . I had got over number of occasions only the belief in Jesus helped me very much .Thanks for the testimony .
This is a powerful testimony. God bless you all.
This was such an amazing testimony! God is so good ! God heals the broken hearted.🙏🏽♥️
However this god had to kill every man , woman, children, animals except the mythical Noah's family, because there was so much sin??? If this god was all known, knows everything, all powerful, why did he have to commit global genocide? You would think he could do something else. It comes down to this, there is no evidence of a sky magician. Believe in the evidence and logic of science .
God allowed 5 million of his chosen ones to be slaughtered in WW2. He did nothing. He was probably to busy watching you masturbate.
Woooooooow- he said he had built a bridge into my life and used to bring the gospel - and that touched me deeply!!!! It is the kindness of Jesus that brings people !!!
Chuck Colson of Watergate infamy and Nixon's legal aide (hatchet man) came to know the Lord after he was convicted of crimes associated with Watergate break-in and aftermath. He came to faith in the Lord on reading CS Lewis's "Mere Christianity" and wrote his own testimony "Born Again". . He was the founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries.
Thanks for reminding me .. he was a friend of my Uncle Henry .. An electrical engineer ...
I love the pascal quote; there is a God-shaped hole in everyone's heart.
That’s all it is though, a quote. It’s not true.
@@dontknowausername-oj2hc Nope. No void here. This is just more stupid crap religious people tell each other.
The god of Abraham makes the hole bigger
I always said it was a Jesus shaped hole that only He could fill, after I had tried to stuff it with many other things, but none of them fit.
@joeturner9219 Du-uh
Mere Christanity is great (I've never read it) CS Lewis is a good author. I like his Narnia series. I'll get the Christian books he has written
Beautiful testimony. Welcome to The Family ❣️
.. people often believe that God can just do what He wants. He can’t .. He’s bound by His own code of conduct (moral law). He won’t override peoples free will .. which if you think about it .. is a function of Love.
2 Peter 3:9
9 The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. Instead He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
Christ is the living Son of God. He's literally God in human form.
amen
Amen!!
He's not literally GOD in human flesh, HE IS GOD in human flesh! John 1:16 and the WORD became flesh and dwelt among us!
Thank you Adonai-Yeshua!!! Isaiah 59:17-21 tells us how God the Father was to come down in the Flesh, Messiah, to redeem us!!
Revelation tells us the reveal of Christ Messiah as the ONE TRUE AND LIVING GOD!!! THE 1ST AND THE LAST!!! HALLELUJAH!! 🔥 🔥 🔥
ISAIAH 44:6-8 & REVELATION 22:13
Amen
I can relate. Been searching for truth my whole life and got to that place of “I know nothing”.
But now you have the opportunity to know the truth and to find your healing.
@@peggiunderwood9519 Yes. The truth is a person. He is the Truth.
CS Lewis became an atheist too. But he came back to his faith in God.
Another atheist testified that she came to accept Jesus as Savior by reading The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. She identified with Edmund.
Wonderful testimonies. May more receive Jesus as Savior.
I"ve been using LWW with my ESL students, as the basis for language study, identifying literary devices, evaluating etc, and the message is POWERFUL. Great for discussions around motives, character, a spiritual dimension/other world/Narnia, evil, redemption. What a gift!
Problem is that Lewis didn't have a genuine conversion because he was actually terribly heretical in his beliefs. Sad but true.
@@RevGary heretical how?
@@RevGary and you can decide the validity of other people's conversions because Almighty God moved over and let you share His judgement seat???
@@andreab2627 "by their fruits shall ye know them" and its clear by your insolent attitude that you've not had a valid conversion either. 🤡
He was never an atheist. He was simply angry that the "god" he believed in didn't shield him from suffering.
CS Lewis was a huge influence in my life 39 years ago and helped lay a foundation... also his surprised by grace... WOW-
Wow I’m going to get a copy of ‘Mere Christianity’ and leave it about, for my husband! ❤️🙏❤️
Don't forget to witness to him with your behaviour.(1Corinthians 7:13-14)
I think a better book might be Greg Boyd's: "Letters From a Skeptic" Check it out and leave that one around as well.
OR you could simply *give* it to him....
My daughter ran away. By God’s grace she kept in contact with me. We had been in ministry. She ran to the people that were least like us. They became Christians. She said there was no God. When she saw the change in her boyfriend’s life, that was what showed her that God is real. I do have a son who has not found his way back to God yet. Please pray for him. For parents who are going through this, hang in there. It is such a painful scary thing to go through. I had kind of went through a period where I could not connect with people I did not know well. I got a phone call from a woman I had met but didn’t know. I simply was not in a place where I could develop new relationships. When I was trying to politely tell her that this was not a good time to get together she asked me if I needed prayer. She said she could not stop thinking about me. She lived on the other side of the country!
I know how scary this is. I know what it is like to get a phone call at two in the morning because my daughter was hungry. We had told her she could come home but she had to live by our rules. I told her that if she was in danger call me and I would come and get her but I was so sorry I could not feed her. She did end up coming back and living under our rules. She is now a Mom who is teaching her children to follow God. She is an AWANA worker.
There are so many stories that don’t have my happy ending. I want to say this. God absolutely positively adores your child.
One thing I would say is I would say “you are better than that behavior”
Putting it that way gives them nothing to throw against. It compliments the child rather than insult them.
The other is don’t lecture them even though everything in you wants to.
That way, the next time they get it wrong, they will be more willing to come to you.
Bless you
@@Tobystoysneca thank you!
Why having children that do not believe as you do is "a painful scary thing to go through"?
@@Qwerty-lp1fz thank you for your understanding and prayers
@@shelteredsparrow2736 thank you for not answering the question
Love the testimony and keep up doing the LORD'S work in Christ Jesus 🙏 Amen
You mean in Paul the antiKrist.
@@alysdexia alloha nonsens?
@@sundfornuft9449 what?
Dang it, I wanted to hear more of his story.
His wife woke up that morning to a whole new man, and then what?
Did she freak out, was this a big 'ah-ha moment' for her too?
She saw the change in him and eventually accepted/received Jesus as well. She works in youth ministry. Wonderful people. ❤️
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Where's the continuation?
I thought the same thing. The story just started getting good.
Now you are making me think of Lee Strobel's journey of faith, culminating in his book The Case for Christ. He has just come out with his latest, The Case For Heaven
@@catherinemelnyk I've read the Case for Christ and have the Case for Faith but haven't read that yet.
I really enjoyed the Case for Christ though.
Thanks for sharing! Praise the Lord.
God used that same book to remove the scales from my eyes, back in 1981. I had begun to sort of believe, and by the end of the book I was totally convinced.
Bless you!! I got saved in 1981 also!!💃💃💃💃💃
“He had established a relationship with me” If your evangelism isn’t at a personal level, don’t do it until it is.
The apostles would disagree. There are many times we see through the book of Acts evangelism outside of that dichotomy. It's not to say relational evangelism doesn't have it's place, but to say that is shouldn't be done outside of that, I believe goes beyond the clear teaching of Scripture. God bless.
@@michaelmelter2271 You know, Michael, you were correct to call me out on that. I did not mean that we should not do extemporaneous street preaching, however. What I meant was that we need that personal element in our preaching or evangelism in order for it to be most effective. But after thinking about it I had to agree with you, knowing from first hand experience that sometimes I DO NOT care about them UNTIL I start evangelizing. It's a strange phenomenon. So, you are absolutely correct and I should have hesitated before making such a blanket statement. One thing I am learning though is just how much actually caring about the person I am speaking with, as a person, elevated my effectiveness greatly. In fact, aside from trusting Jesus through His Holy Spirit, and learning the Biblical models for evangelism, it has to be the next most important element a believer must learn in evangelism. So, thanks for the correction.
@@CSUnger Of course, brother! Thanks for the solid reply and for taking my comment in the spirit I meant it. I absolutely agree that we must come from a place of love and genuine concern when sharing the Gospel, praying for the Spirit’s leading.
So relatable. I, too, was an atheist and was a mocker and scoffed at Jesus. Called it religion, minimized it, acted like science and technology represented nature, biology, and truth. Jesus is the Way. Subjective Truth and Moral Relativism when actually walked out begats the misery he spoke of. Those who walk that out honestly became like Nietzsche and sound like this man Nathan. If the atheist doesn't observe his own beliefs or theories than he is borrowing and not uploading his own conclusions
I love conversion stories!
I praise God for Nathan, my brother in Christ!
Thankyou for sharing brother
When I read the title of this video, I thought to myself “the book has to be Mere Christianity”. And lo and behold….
I agree. Reading C.S. Lewis or George McDonald is a great place to search out Who Jesus is. BTW, Lewis' book, "The Problem With Pain" explores the controversial issue of why bad things happen to good people. 😊
All I know from my conversion , unless Holy Spirit dwell in you , you will never realize there is God in the Bible .
While I was living in postpartum depression and my husband’s cocaine addiction, I saw two bodiless demons hovering over my bedroom ceiling.
Through all the supernatural phenomena, my husband went to drug rehab and I started to read the Bible and we both became Christians exactly same day and hour .
It’s been 36 years ago and we are still praising our Savior Jesus Christ.
I remember I witnessed to my Japanese friend who was an engineer and atheist . After I shared the gospel more than 40 minutes, he looking at my face and told me he doesn’t understand a word I said to him .
I know cause “the spirit of stupor “ ( Romans 11:8 ) he will not understand till the Holy Spirit convicts him .
John 6:65, your assertion parallels what Jesus himself said 😃
I never became an atheist but other than that my story is pretty close to his. Still struggling with the substance abuse but attempting detox is a few days. Please pray I make it through by the grace of God.
Nice video,thanks, but always remember "Cheeses aint Lard"
i once was...!!!
i embraced everything marxist...!!!
but my Lord turned me upside down!!!
by His divine grace, am now an aspiring pastor
shepherding a small community church!!! ☝🏽🙏🏾
We need more Atheist testimonies. They are always so powerful..
Praise Him in the morning. Praise Him in the noon time. Praise Him when the sun goes down.
Mere Christianity by c. S. Lewis... brilliant book
Great interview - Thank You “HOPE”
I was brought up Catholic turned atheist at 14. I thought Christians were weird, annoying, and needed a moral guideline to base their life on so they made up a "god" and stories. I would get so irritated when they preached to me and didn't understand why they just couldn't accept we had different beliefs. I am skeptical and science motivated. I need to see, hear, touch etc...to believe. Like this man, at 33 I had the "scales fall of my eyes" in my bedroom in the middle of the night and woke up a completely different person. I could see and understand. I hungered for the Word. I started playing which I had previously seen as selfish and wishful thinking. Now I'll tell anyone who will listen about God. I love hearing others with similar stories. It validates that what I've experienced has happened to others.
*praying
Many delusional stories don’t validate any of them.
"Now I'll tell anyone who will listen about God."
Great, so you became the annoying, weird christian your 14yo self didn't like. Congrats on coming full circle and finally believing in fantasy stories.
The founder of AA said he just couldn't quench his thirst for alcohol, his spiritual advisor told him everybody has a thirst that can only be quenched by God.
The founder of AA was an occultist and the book he wrote was channeled to him by demons. There’s lots of information about this online if you’re interested.
The cross Jesus told us to bear is the hardships in our lives we will face in pursuing a meaningful and God fearing life.
The lost souls are those who either suffer for nothing or those who avoid suffering at all costs.
Atheist loses his mind and becomes Christian.
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He wasn't even an atheist in the first place. He literally says that he always believed in a god.....which is the ONE thing an atheist can not do. And these rubes slurp it up because it confirms their bias.
Which takes greater faith, something came from nothing or believing in a creator? How do you violate the Law of Entropy to get increased complexity from a single simple celled organism. Sounds like the atheists are the one who actually lost their minds.
@@RobertShannon-cu7iz The creator nonsense. Big time. Because nobody but you creator guys claim that something came from nothing.
It's projection all the way down on your part. I don't have to invoke magic to go through the day, I can actually acknowledge when I don't know something. No need to invent magic men in the sky.
Also, the second law of thermodynamics has absolutely nothing to do with development of cells. That's just a common quip you learned from your religious brainwashers who never understood science but try to use it to discredit science. Which is bloody hilarious.
Earth is NOT a closed system. In case you haven't noticed, we have a giant ball of plasma creating sheer endless energy which is transported to us on earth, entirely shattering this infantile attempt at misusing science of yours.
You have a grade school understanding of the topic and think you can disprove college professors.
Awesome thanks for sharing this!!!!!!!👍👍👍👍
These personal stories are so powerful!
This young man's story is very similar to that of Francis Collins. He was also seeking until he was given the same book by a pastor. God will open the door if we will only knock!
People should know about Francis Collins. He is an American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He is the former director of the National Institute of Health from August 2009 to December 2021, serving under three presidents .
Before being appointed director of the NIH, Collins led the Human Genome Project and other genomics research initiatives as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Before joining NHGRI, he earned a reputation as a gene hunter at the University of Michigan. Was elected to the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science.
@@tonymercer7759 thanks for the brief but concise introduction to Francis Collins, which I omitted. Collins has since become one of the greatest Christian apologists of our time, through God's grace.
There are no true atheists. All believe in God. At some point, something traumatic happens in their lives that causes them to become angry with God. Just because you're angry, that doesn't make Him go away. Angry or not, He still loves you and wants you to return to Him. When you feel the call, don't ignore it. God bless.
@@ChristsChurchOfTheElect spot on comment my friend. Be blessed.
As an atheist, I came into this with an open mind but I did not find it convincing. I empathize with this guy because his story sounds like mine.
There's no doubt that when you're in the deepest, darkest times of your life, spirituality may save lives. But just because your spirituality helped you back from those dark places doesn't mean everything is true. A Hindu may have the same experience and find solace in their gods and feel they same feeling while praying.
The answers are there, you just have to be willing to ask the questions.
After affect of all those drugs? Sad!
Wow...thank you for sharing you experience, Nathan! Thank you for eventually being open to God's Spirit. Am so happy for you and your family.
I am so happy for you. God bless you and your family
Great testimony! Also, I would like to hear what sounds like might be act 3 of this story...Nathan had just said "his wife woke up to a completely different person, which in some way was (her) worst nightmare." I am betting she also has come to the Lord. Is that part of the testimony available somewhere?
He's on TH-cam, but don't know if the rest of his testimony is in 1 of the vids. Looked up Nathan Penny on youtube.
What you need to understand is that you are not saved by association to a denomination any denomination, only through Christ Jesus can you get to the Father through faith and obedience, keep the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.👍🏻
You are so wrong in your advice since the only way to come to Jesus is with nothing in your hand: no obedience, no works, just faith in his Word.
@@mynameis757 "why do you call me Lord and do not the things I say?"
@@mynameis757
A foundation of good works, and Obedience to God's commandments, laws, and statues is necessary to walk daily with Jesus.
It's necessary because the spirit, heart, and mind feeds on what one does on a daily basis.
Example, a person whom drinks on a daily basis. Years pass, the addiction has become stronger, and this addiction has new friends called drugs, laziness, ECT.
Do you think this person will find Jesus, if he/she can't even get up from bed, except to drink?
The first commandment says to love God above everything else. One needs to love Jesus with spirit, heart, and mind. If one fills one's spirit, heart, and mind with alcohol, drugs, porn, foul language, pride, ECT....this polluted self/ road will not lead to Jesus Christ.
It sounds like he was raised Christian and then got angry at the god he always believed in? Then later he wasn’t angry?
Amen praise the Lord thank you Jesus ✝️🙏
Please pray for my son. He has also turned from God. I sit in sorrow for the lost relationship between him and me, and between him and his eternal Father. I love him so much but I can't reach him. I've been counseled on the healing steps that need to happen, and I wait on God to place that book, that sermon, that friend, or that experience in front of my son so he can know how much he is loved. My son won't let me tell him, so I'll say it here. I love you, Kid. You are so beautiful. I am proud of you. I'll wait as long as it takes.
He won't accept arguments for the existence of the Abrahamic deity? Argument being mere words whether written or spoken? Neither do I so I'll congratulate him for ditching one branch of mythology. He'll probably be happier and more content once he sheds any residual vestiges of mental conflict.
I am glad your son ditched this nonsense and started thinking for himself instead of listening to your insane religion.
The nerve of humanity to think God owes us anything and that we know what God should do for us. If he doesn't do what we demand we'll reject him.
I am not at all surprised by this testimony, I have seen such "atheists" turn to religion. I have grown up listening to such testimonies in church. I have been an atheist for over 20 years, after being a devout evangelical christian well into my 20s. My entire immediate and extended family is christian and every once in a while, I get questions about what terrible thing happened that "destroyed my faith". I was always perplexed at why they would assume I had something bad happen to me. I have realized that from the Christian (or religious) POV, you become an atheist only when bad things happen.
To me it seems that this gentleman's position was never carefully considered. He had loosely held beliefs about what God is and decided to walk away from it, which is not a carefully considered atheistic position at all. For someone with strong beliefs, it is extremely difficult to step out of the comfort of "sky man looking out for me", and face down "eternal hellfire and damnation". It's like trying to bungee jump despite knowing you are well secured, as every cell of your body is resisting it. My own journey to rejecting religion took 3-4 years.
For anyone with loosely held positions, whether atheistic or religious, right wing or left wing, or anything else, its much easier to convince them one way or other.
I can relate. I was raised Catholic and never had any trauma or bad experiences but always struggled with doubt. It took me about 40 years to admit to myself I did not believe. The initial shock of losing my faith was painful but that passed pretty quickly. I soon realized how much emotional energy I had been expending trying to believe something that makes no sense. I am always open to new evidence for Christianity but C S Lewis' "liar, lunatic or lord" schtick certainly won't cut it.
@@baskeptic1161 Lewis the Professor at Cambridge an intellectual lightweight in your eyes? 🤔
@@aclark903 Not at all. There are plenty of brilliant Christians. Francis Collins being a prime example. My understanding is that Collins became a Christian because he was on a hike and saw a waterfall frozen in 3 columns and took it as a sign of the trinity. Even the most intelligent among us can believe things for bad reasons.
The "atheist" that believed that there was a god?
Yeah, I love these conversion shows where an "atheist" who was "mad at god" once again found Christ. Good times.
No. He said he believed in a God. Then stopped believing in God later on. Listen
Amazing testimony God bless brother
Please pray for my grandsons & granddaughter to know Jesus in their hearts & lives. I love this man's testimony. God bless everyone & prayers 🙏🏻 ✝️❤️ I wanted to hear the end of how his wife took it & if she excepted Christ?
Instead of useless prayers that never work, try actual evidence.
@@schmetterling4477 Why are you bullying me? What is your problem?
@@2l84me8 There is lots of evidence open your eyes. I've seen the Lord Jesus heal.
@@2l84me8 People are so mean but then look how they treated Jesus!
@@mmm7m672 Please present your evidence in that case.
As an atheist , this is really not how we think ... we are not "mad at god" , we do not "supress the truth"
We genuinely dont think he or any gods exist
And notice that this guy said that he believed , but just got mad at him... thats not what an atheist is
Also, while being dependent on drugs is awful ,needing a crutch for the pain , or an exit , does NOT prove the existence of a god or gods , just because you believe god is that crutch or exit
6:30 "Everyone has a god shaped hole" Even if it was the case that humans had an emotional need to believe in a "higher power" that does not prove the existence of such a being
As for CS Lewis' argument , I find it very strange that it would convince any genuine atheists... Its one of the weakest theistic arguments...
"As an atheist , this is really not how we think"
So all atheists think alike? If a person who doesn't think like you, then he/she is not an atheist?
@@valkyrieloki1991 Nope , not all atheists think alike ... but definitionally , someone who believes in god but is mad at him is NOT an atheist , but a misotheist
Its not a matter of all atheists thinking alike but a matter of atheists not believing in the existence of god by definition , in the same way there cant be a married bachelor ... a married person who hates their spouse is not a bachelor by definition , in the same way a theist who is mad at god is not an atheist by definition
If you wanna describe the concept of hating god while acknowledging his existence , the word you are looking for , is misotheism
To be an atheist, you have to believe that something came from nothing. It is the single largest logical leap to ever make, and it takes 'faith' to truly believe it. The irony is Atheism requires more faith than creationism. Looking at creation you know there is a creator, something created our existence. It really is just that simple. There are many facets of turning to religion and specifically Christianity, but the very first is becoming a theist. And the question any atheist has to tackle, is how could everything come from nothing? If the answer is that SOMETHING had to create it, at the very least you then believe ina creating power./force/something. Nothing comes from nothing.
reversed something and nothing in first sentence accidentally.
@@ew6230 I see you read from the apologist script
Believing that something can come from nothing is an entirely separate question from the only one that matters in defininh who is an atheist : "Do you believe in the existence of a god or gods ?"
Most atheists , on the creation on the universe , usually say that they don't know how it all started , and I am one of them, we do not make up an answer like ... some people...
Also , most Christians believe that something indeed came from nothing, God , if you cant answer "What caused god? " you are in no place to lecture atheists about how they "believe something can come from nothing"
So no, atheism requires no faith... but I am glad you finally consider faith a bad thing, since you try to use "atheism requires more faith than creationism" as an argument against atheism, even if you are wrong about this instance , you are right that faith is a bad thing
"Looking at creation" thats begging the question, you dont get to call it creation until you can demonstrate a "creator" , you are just making the mistake of defining god into existence, sorry , thats not how this works, things dont just "exist by definition"
"The atheist gas to answer" Im gonna stop you right there , all atheism is , is the lack of belief in a god or gods , we dont have to answer any other question to be atheists... as for your question itself , if you ask us this question, you have to answer "what caused god" or "why is there god rather than nothing"
Als dont put words into my mouth ,i NEVER said "SOMETHING had to create it" as an answer to your question , I simply dont have to know everything that there is about the universe to lack a belief in the existence of a god or gods , and I dont like making up an answer , like theists do
Finally, Quantum Mechanics has demonstrated the existence of particles coming into existence uncaused... you might not consider empty vaccum to be "nothing" because empty space might be considered something, but it is FACT that we have objerved obects coming into existence UNCAUSED
@@mariolis the answer for God is that he is timeless, spaceless, etc. because to create time and space yoy must be beyond it, and that is beyond our bounded understanding. any creator would have these properties
The testimonies in my opinion stopped before it had finished. So how did his wife come to the Lord? Please lengthen this one or do part 2
God is good!
Nay. He isn't.
PROVE "God" is good. Please, prove it.
I also used to be an atheist. But then I understood that I am not just a meaningless piece of matter that would just perish. It took me a couple of years but I finally saw the truth. The turning point was a near death experience when got into a car accident during my uni years. Not only that but after I got better I saw how everybody really cared about me, loved me. I don't think that is what made me believe, I always understood it but didn't want to accept it. I mean why me? Why am I experiencing all this and not someone else? Why these eyes have to endure these? The only logical answer I could've come to is that in reality I am the god, the one that should be worshipped, the person for whom the world exists. I am the only higher power and everybody should love me. I will pray to myself that you will accept your true Lord and Savior.
Sorry, English is not my first language.
U are blessed sir God bless u
Glory to God 🙌🏾
38 seconds into the video totally debunks the title of this video..Just for your information, You cannot call yourself an Athiest if you hold a belief that god always existed such as this fake Athiest stated in the start of the video..
AMENNNNN IN JESUS' NAME!!!!!
"mmm" "Ah" mmmhmm"
Yo the interviewer has me laughin.
Great interview besides the background moaning. God Bless 🤙🏼
For Christmas, my daughter gifted me NRSV C.S. Lewis Bible. It has his writings, of course....often makes me think/realize bout my faith.
1. I was an atheist.
2. Then , all of a sudden, I lost everything in my life, and that's when I found Jesus.
That's it. You just have to admit that you cannot deal with life as an adult to become a believer.
Hahahaha 🤣
And all you need to do to be an athiest is ignore the staggering elements of design in every facet of creation, all accounts throughout all time and regions of the world of all supernatural phenomena, the fact that all ancient people groups have always believed in heaven, Hell, spirits, demons and gods, and the fact that scripture is replete with fulfilled prophecy that is demonstrably true and archeologicalky verifiable. 1400 years before Jesus Christ walked the Earth, the Old Testament prophecied that through the Messiah, the whole world would know the One True God. Wow. Lucky guess, I suppose.
To believe the universe was not created is literally the most ignorant position one could possibly hold.
You have a better chance of being struck by lightning 30 times than a protein has of randomly assembling itself from peptides and amino acids in ideal laboratory conditions, but you think that it somehow happened in the vacuum of space, with any given chaos, in the perfect order, in the perfect timing to create life when it's never been shown to be true. Absolute bonkers levels of delusion. Chemistry, physics and mathematics must have preceded the universe in order for the universe to exist. Do you understand that? You would never be so daft as to look at a book and say it created itself, but you look at an infinity more complex strand of DNA and think that somehow, it must have created itself. That order must have came from chaos, even though, *all evidence ever points to the fact that nothing works like that*
Oh well. Keep banking on how mature you are. 😆
I've read the book and I am still an atheist because I think it matters what you know before you read it. I suppose Nathan could be considered an atheist but he is not the typical atheist but rather a scorned theist that temporarily took a break. It's not really a God shaped hole because even theists can and often have this hole. You can be told God has a purpose for your life and that can provide some relief, but until you realize your purpose, the hole remains. Atheists and agnostics also find purpose and meaning in life and many of them can have that hole while they figure that out. People find purpose and meaning in other religions and philosophies so it's not strictly a Christian thing or we would all be Christians if that that was the only way to have purpose and meaning in our lives. If I had to pinpoint the cause of the hole in people's lives, it's living in a world that stifles the human spirit and causes one to feel trapped. In other words, we live in a world of people telling us who we should be rather than being ourselves. Some people turn to drugs and alcohol to get away from that world, but soon learn it just makes things worse.
Hi may I ask the book are you referring to the bible. If so as an opened mind atheist is that possible for you to share a brief review of it with me?
@@Herbertl_Lee Yes the book I am referring to is the bible, which is technically a collection of books. In terms of what you know, a reader will have a different impression of reading Matthew and Luke knowing they used Mark's Gospel as a source rather than being eyewitness accounts.
Atheist turned CHRISTIAN after READING EZEKIEL CHAPTER 😂😂😂
Awesome testimony Nathan!
You and Luke are in my Prayers.
I'm an atheist but I'm skeptical of this story (who could see that coming? lol.) But this story is odd. He was a Christian, maybe not devout, but a Christian nonetheless. Then he has a bad break-up and blames God and decides he'll be an atheist. This is a bad reason, like a very, very bad reason to not believe in a god of any kind. There are so many good reasons to be skeptical. But a bad breakup has no logical impact on the existence of anything--other than a relationship. The fact that a girlfriend might have cheated on me has nothing to do with whether or not Harry Potter exists as a real person.
Then, the same thing happens for his conversion back to Christianity. All of this falls into the "atheists are just mad at god" trope. Maybe that's how this guy was. But most of us just don't find it convincing. To me, there's no difference between Greek Mythology and Christianity. They're both myths that seek to explain the world and our place in it.
No Atheist has ever been convinced of Jesus by reading the Bible. You don't even understand what an Atheist is and keep applying it to a person who believes there is a God and chooses to reject God, that's not an Atheist, that's a Christian who's mad at God.
A true Atheist does not believe there is a God, that's what it means. Unless you can prove a God exists which you can't the Bible would only convince us there isn't a God due to the inherent contradictions it contains.
he dosent sound like he was atheist, he was always indoctornated
I was a Christian, now an atheist. No signs of needing or wanting to turn back. I can appreciate how the church helps people, and am grateful to so many good people who gave me tools to unpack and deal with my junk. But now that I’m out, I find no Jesus is required, just community. So, if you simply cannot find community, for good or for bad, maybe you do “need Jesus” and I judge so many people aren’t actually willing to sit in the uncomfortable, so grace and mercy that Christianity tries to offer may just be the thing that keeps you going.
Hmm was a Christian, may I ask what you once believe?
@@Herbertl_Lee - probably not enough to pass your test given the loaded question that this usually ends up being, in my experience.
But I'll play along and start with the fact that I said, with conviction & belief, every Sunday, the words of the Nicene Creed. If you have a specific question(s) that you need a specific answer(s) to, we can try playing that game...
The thing I find interesting when doing this exercise with others, is how little one requires of people IN the faith to offer satisfactory defense of their belief, only the bare minimum to be counted as one who can be a tither.
@@ardbegthequestion I see. May I ask how old are you when you decide to become an atheist, What you hated most as an christian back then, and what make you decide its time to move on？Do you have any questions you want to ask for Christianity?
Please only answer those you feel comfortable without. I am currently writing a paper on these subjects. Thank you for your time and much appreciated ☺️
@@Herbertl_Lee - well first off, I think you’ll find most Christian who leave faith don’t “decide” to become an atheist. It’s a process of what most liken to “a death by a thousand cuts”. For me, I started to really engage during a season of questions and doubts, and at some point, as much as I tried and desperately wanted to, I found myself having to just let go. I was a proclaimed Christian for over 30 years and left in 2016 at age 41.
I left because every facet of my face was touched by questions that had either incoherent, contradictory or unsatisfactory answers. It was only when I opened myself up to allowing something else to be true, that I found the answers that led me away, so do I have questions for Christianity? Not really. Leaving Faith no longer is tied to theological questions . It’s quite simply that the Christian God would have to be demonstrated to me in such a manner to overcome the mount of evidence and experiences against it. To me, this can only be achieved by that God himself of which, if he existed, shows little interest in actually interacting in such a manner.
@@ardbegthequestion Thanks 😃
Hello. Thank you God, thank you Jesus. Amen.
Amen 😇✝️❤️
He wasn't an atheist, he believed in God throughout his childhood. He got angry at God, then later came back. As a lifelong atheist this is a poor example of a conversion...and a clickbait title. Nice try.
So he wasn't an atheist then.
Seems to be a common theme with all these "atheist to Christian" stories
God bless You
The most convincing book about Christianity I have ever read was " The Four Witnesses " by very early converts who were taught either by a disciple of Christ or one removed. These were intellectuals and early church fathers who wrote extensively and were martyred. One had been a philosopher of stoicism and a friend of the future emperor Marcus Aurelius in his youth and tried to convert him later in life. . The beliefs taught to the catechumens is exactly the same as Christians hold today . This is way before the Gospel was laid out as we know it today ....a really great book.