Replies to post #328186 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[mlsoft]

folly...

I don't mind at all. I got my BS at UT-Knoxville with a major in History and a minor in Political Science. I also had an undeclared major in Biology due to my three years in pre-med.

My religious background during childhood was practically nil. My mother was a Christian, but my father was not during my childhood, although he did accept Christ later in life. I was a confirmed aggressive agnostic through college and for about 10 years thereafter before I accepted the truth of Scripture and accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior. As an agnostic, I was very much anti-Christian, focusing on the hypocrisy of many of the "Christians" I knew, not realizing that most of them were merely professing christians, and not really Christians at all. In the same manner, I also liked to focus on all the evil that Christians had supposedly done through the ages, it never occurring to me that those people were not really Christians at all.

Like most agnostics and atheists, I had read only small parts of the Bible and out of apathy did not care what it said. It was not until someone proposed to me that Christianity stood or fell not by what people who claimed to be Christians said or did in their lives, but by what the "guidebook", the Bible said, that I undertook to actually read the Bible and began to understand what it said and taught about God, man, and sin. When I did so, praying that if there was a God, that He would show me the truth, I began to understand it all and the incredible logic behind the whole thing, from beginning (Genesis) to the end (Revelation). While there was still a lot that I did not understand, I already sensed that every little piece fit into the whole perfectly, and that it was a book like no other ever written.

That was in 1978, and my life has never been the same since then. It is much, much better and more satisfying. At the time, I was a successful stockbroker in Birmingham, making good money and supposedly living the good life. We were flying down to the Gulf Coast every weekend with our dates and doing silly things like flying to New York or New Orleans for dinner and doing all those things that were supposed to be fun and bring pleasure to your life, but down deep inside, I was not happy nor was my life at all fulfilling. I knew that I need something else, I just did not know what it was. Praise the Lord that He showed me what my life was missing.

mlsoft