Atheism to Jesus, My Testimony as a Turk

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Hello!~ About 3 years ago I found the Truth Himself, let me briefly testify to His name:

I was born into atheistic parents in Turkey who were disillusioned by Islam and life, and lived as an atheist for 24 years of my life. Though I'm sure my parents being atheists contributed a little to it, they haven't forced any of their views upon me, they left me alone in this subject to make my own decision. And far as I can remember my conscious life, the concept of God never made sense to me. I couldn't fit God into the natural life, what the media and education systems are teaching and all these theories of Evolution, Big-bang and astronomy. And when I looked at those who claimed to believe in God around me, I saw a lot of shameless hypocrisy, so I became a resolved atheist.

In my childhood and teen years (and up until 24 years of age) my whole life revolved around video games, partly as an escape to family issues, partly because they were fascinating to me. For years, if I had 10 hours of free time within the day, I would spend almost all of it on video games. I was okay with my life, I thought I was a pretty good person (like everybody else), I enjoyed living, I liked people, and occasionally I would do some research, and the state of the world and all the evil going around would bother me, as it does most other people.

And at around 17 years old, I started looking into why and where is all this evil coming from. I researched for you years, and found out that a big chunk of evil that is plaguing the world today is actually pouring down from a small group of very powerful people. I started researching about these people and after years, I found out that they were, well... Satanists.

You can probably imagine how silly it is for an atheist to find out the most powerful and influential people in this world who are supposed to be the wisest and all, are actually religious. And not only are they religious but they actually worship the devil. This I found out with evidence as good as any, I was dumbfounded but I couldn't deny it or brush it off due to all the proof and connections I saw.

So I researched more and looked into what they do and why they really do it; and I found out a lot of unseemly stuff. But amongst all that I saw that a spiritual world existed. I saw that people had spirits, and that there were spiritual beings besides humans, and that there was this massive, non-material intelligent order. As an atheist I thought you could maybe explain the existence of the extremely intelligent material order by some random chance, stars crashing and time passing by; but when I saw the existence of a spiritual world I knew there was no way you could explain that away with evolution and bigbang and whatever else.

My whole life which was built upon materialism crumbled. So I, who used to think everything was "just the materials and the brain" realized, whoa okay, there is a God. So... I started praying, and asking a ton of questions to God. I knew about concepts like prayer (so God must hear and care) and I had bags full of questions so I turned to God and started asking. I actually first started reading the Quran figuring there would be one in our home in a bookshelf somewhere, this religion that I laughed at my whole life, to see if there was any truth in it. As I was reading the Quran, there were parts where I asked "would the Creator of all universe really say such things, and command such things?" but it was time for me to be humble after seeing all I thought I knew was wrong, and just see if this book has any truth.

Yet during this time I kept on praying to God and asked a lot of questions. And I, as some random person in Turkey, who has never been to a church, never read the Bible, don't know what Jesus is or what Christianity is about; I kept coming across Bible verses. Bible verses that would specifically answer the questions I brought up to God. This happened so, so many times and some of these were so undeniably supernatural I paused reading the Quran and picked up the New Testament. I didn't know much about the Bible or Quran or any other thing about any religion really, I thought, as Muslims claim, that the New Testament was the "3rd book of the Holy Books given-by-God series" ( :ahah: ) I would learn later that Bible and Quran were very different and said very different things.

Thus I started reading the New Testament, and as I was reading it, especially on certain parts, I would feel this tangible, overwhelming sense of peace and love surrounding me as if it's a piece of thin, immaterial cloth; now I know to be the Holy Spirit of God. Never had that kind of experience in my life before, did not happen while I was reading the Quran or with anything else.

I read the New Testament, started praying in Jesus name, and I received incredible amounts of grace. Without exaggerating, whatever I asked for (especially in that period of time) God answered me in one way or another. Some of them were just so supernatural that the atheist remnant within me still trying to fight all these could not discredit it.

I kept on researching, praying and asking a lot of questions to God; and after many confirmations and some supernatural experiences, I have no doubt that the Holy Bible is %100 true, and Jesus Christ is the Lord.

There are many in Turkey and also in Middle-East that are having encounters with the Living God, people who pray and seek after the truth somehow bump into Jesus; all thanks to the merciful Lord and YOU guys praying. Let's fight the good fight of faith for our Lord who is so loving and faithful, and console His Heart by loving Him and winning souls for Him.

I testify: He is WORTHY! :blink:


I also have a video of my testimony which is slightly longer and more detailed:


Thanks for reading, God bless!
 
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Hello!~ About 3 years ago I found the Truth Himself, let me briefly testify to His name:

I was born into atheistic parents in Turkey who were disillusioned by Islam and life, and lived as an atheist for 24 years of my life. Though I'm sure my parents being atheists contributed a little to it, they haven't forced any of their views upon me, they left me alone in this subject to make my own decision. And far as I can remember my conscious life, the concept of God never made sense to me. I couldn't fit God into the natural life, what the media and education systems are teaching and all these theories of Evolution, Big-bang and astronomy. And when I looked at those who claimed to believe in God around me, I saw a lot of shameless hypocrisy, so I became a resolved atheist.

In my childhood and teen years (and up until 24 years of age) my whole life revolved around video games, partly as an escape to family issues, partly because they were fascinating to me. For years, if I had 10 hours of free time within the day, I would spend almost all of it on video games. I was okay with my life, I thought I was a pretty good person (like everybody else), I enjoyed living, I liked people, and occasionally I would do some research, and the state of the world and all the evil going around would bother me, as it does most other people.

And at around 17 years old, I started looking into why and where is all this evil coming from. I researched for you years, and found out that a big chunk of evil that is plaguing the world today is actually pouring down from a small group of very powerful people. I started researching about these people and after years, I found out that they were, well... Satanists.

You can probably imagine how silly it is for an atheist to find out the most powerful and influential people in this world who are supposed to be the wisest and all, are actually religious. And not only are they religious but they actually worship the devil. This I found out with evidence as good as any, I was dumbfounded but I couldn't deny it or brush it off due to all the proof and connections I saw.

So I researched more and looked into what they do and why they really do it; and I found out a lot of unseemly stuff. But amongst all that I saw that a spiritual world existed. I saw that people had spirits, and that there were spiritual beings besides humans, and that there was this massive, non-material intelligent order. As an atheist I thought you could maybe explain the existence of the extremely intelligent material order by some random chance, stars crashing and time passing by; but when I saw the existence of a spiritual world I knew there was no way you could explain that away with evolution and bigbang and whatever else.

My whole life which was built upon materialism crumbled. So I, who used to think everything was "just the materials and the brain" realized, whoa okay, there is a God. So... I started praying, and asking a ton of questions to God. I knew about concepts like prayer (so God must hear and care) and I had bags full of questions so I turned to God and started asking. I actually first started reading the Quran figuring there would be one in our home in a bookshelf somewhere, this religion that I laughed at my whole life, to see if there was any truth in it. As I was reading the Quran, there were parts where I asked "would the Creator of all universe really say such things, and command such things?" but it was time for me to be humble after seeing all I thought I knew was wrong, and just see if this book has any truth.

Yet during this time I kept on praying to God and asked a lot of questions. And I, as some random person in Turkey, who has never been to a church, never read the Bible, don't know what Jesus is or what Christianity is about; I kept coming across Bible verses. Bible verses that would specifically answer the questions I brought up to God. This happened so, so many times and some of these were so undeniably supernatural I paused reading the Quran and picked up the New Testament. I didn't know much about the Bible or Quran or any other thing about any religion really, I thought, as Muslims claim, that the New Testament was the "3rd book of the Holy Books given-by-God series" ( :ahah: ) I would learn later that Bible and Quran were very different and said very different things.

Thus I started reading the New Testament, and as I was reading it, especially on certain parts, I would feel this tangible, overwhelming sense of peace and love surrounding me as if it's a piece of thin, immaterial cloth; now I know to be the Holy Spirit of God. Never had that kind of experience in my life before, did not happen while I was reading the Quran or with anything else.

I read the New Testament, started praying in Jesus name, and I received incredible amounts of grace. Without exaggerating, whatever I asked for (especially in that period of time) God answered me in one way or another. Some of them were just so supernatural that the atheist remnant within me still trying to fight all these could not discredit it.

I kept on researching, praying and asking a lot of questions to God; and after many confirmations and some supernatural experiences, I have no doubt that the Holy Bible is %100 true, and Jesus Christ is the Lord.

There are many in Turkey and also in Middle-East that are having encounters with the Living God, people who pray and seek after the truth somehow bump into Jesus; all thanks to the merciful Lord and YOU guys praying. Let's fight the good fight of faith for our Lord who is so loving and faithful, and console His Heart by loving Him and winning souls for Him.

I testify: He is WORTHY! :blink:


I also have a video of my testimony which is slightly longer and more detailed:


Thanks for reading, God bless!
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I'm glad that you embrace the truth but please don't relly on "feelings" from reading New Testament because you said they were showing different God than this of Quran which said to kill people , LORD from Bible commanded to slay every beast and man from land when he took his people to land that he promised them it's just as violent as that story in Quran .

I say that because soon or later somebody will point it to you and it will be stumbling block for you because you are basing on feelings rather than what God said . God said he will do nothing but first reveal things he will do to prophets so we can know when things happen that he exist Amos 3:7 , John 13:19

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

1 Corinthians 15:1-4

1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

God
said that our hearth is deceitful and wicked that's why I would strongly suggest to embrace the Scriptures which I'll send because you will be daily among people who will oppose your faith so you need to be equipped with the truth to face it .
 
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:hi:

I'm glad that you embrace the truth but please don't relly on "feelings" from reading New Testament because you said they were showing different God than this of Quran which said to kill people , LORD from Bible commanded to slay every beast and man from land when he took his people to land that he promised them it's just as violent as that story in Quran .

I say that because soon or later somebody will point it to you and it will be stumbling block for you because you are basing on feelings rather than what God said . God said he will do nothing but first reveal things he will do to prophets so we can know when things happen that he exist Amos 3:7 , John 13:19

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

1 Corinthians 15:1-4

1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

God
said that our hearth is deceitful and wicked that's why I would strongly suggest to embrace the Scriptures which I'll send because you will be daily among people who will oppose your faith so you need to be equipped with the truth to face it .

Hey Chinchilla!

Thank you for your concern, I don't know why you assumed I'm basing my faith on feelings, maybe it's because of the short length of my testimony but I don't rely on feelings at all; nor does it play a significant part as to why I believe in Jesus. I believe in Him because in many ways I've found out, He is the Truth.

I've been a Christian for 3 years now. I've read the Holy Bible a multiple times, so I know what's in the Old Testament. Also, I've read the Quran, and I know a bit about the Hadith as well. The difference is night and day, and it's not just some "violent verses"; I talk a little more about this in the video I've made.

I could talk to you about why I have the utmost faith in the Holy Bible and Jesus Christ the Living God Himself for days and days, but let me just shortly reassure you that my faith isn't flaky and stands on a sure Rock. :ok:
 
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I don't know what to say, only that I join in with the angels in rejoicing over having your name written in the Book of Life. I am almost obsessed with seeing souls come to Christ. In the days I am at home I'll be in prayer 2 or 3 different times in a day over lost souls and I am glad that God is answering my prayers and those of other saints all over the world. Welcome to this beautiful kingdom though I am late to this party and I pray that your story becomes like that of Lazarus whose raising from the dead brought many Jews to Christ as it is stated in John 12:9-11. :clap::clap::clap:
 
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I pray that your story becomes like that of Lazarus whose raising from the dead brought many Jews to Christ as it is stated in John 12:9-11. :clap::clap::clap:

Amen, may it be so. You can be sure that your prayers are well heard and put into use for eternal salvation of souls; thank you for your prayers.
 
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Wow. Praise the Lord for everything He’s done in your life.
May the Father continue to richly bless you
And I couldn’t agree more.
Researching and looking for evidence is exactly what God wants as the Bereans were commended for looking through scriptures when Paul was teaching them.
Unfortunately, the great falling away must come first as what is really and undeniably happening. Some people just don’t want to immerse themselves in God’s knowledge while in some parts of the world, individuals are being killed just for having faith in our Lord, without having access to a proper Bible. :(

By the way, have you ever heard of David Wood?
 
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Wow. Praise the Lord for everything He’s done in your life.
May the Father continue to richly bless you
And I couldn’t agree more.
Researching and looking for evidence is exactly what God wants as the Bereans were commended for looking through scriptures when Paul was teaching them.
Unfortunately, the great falling away must come first as what is really and undeniably happening. Some people just don’t want to immerse themselves in God’s knowledge while in some parts of the world, individuals are being killed just for having faith in our Lord, without having access to a proper Bible. :(

By the way, have you ever heard of David Wood?

Amen. We can work together in the Lord so the falling away is not so great. God has great plans~
And yes, I sure have heard of David Wood; I love some of his work.
 
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Amen. We can work together in the Lord so the falling away is not so great. God has great plans~
And yes, I sure have heard of David Wood; I love some of his work.
What the Lord did in David’s life was just so incredibly profound. I had tears rushing through my eyes when I saw his testimony.
Yes! Our Lord has already overcome the grave so there’s no doubt. 1 Corinthians 2:9 is a wonderful verse
:)
Stay true and God bless
 
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