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[High Fidelity]

Do you like George Takei?

He's alright.

I always wondered why he spammed so much random stuff on Facebook... then I found out he sells that kinda thing. He'll publish your web site or article, but it costs several thousand.

 

[MehGuy]

Do you think he's a hypocritical liberal?

 

[High Fidelity]

Do you think he's a hypocritical liberal?

Can't say I know him well enough

 

[MehGuy]

Hey weren't you an atheist before? Then a deist? Or am I getting you confused with someone else, lol.

 

[High Fidelity]

Hey weren't you an atheist before? Then a deist? Or am I getting you confused with someone else, lol.

Christian and then I had some issues and I had to choose a faith icon(I didn't want to label myself as anything) so I put it as Humanist for a couple weeks while I figured things out.

 

[Alyssa12]

What's your favourite part of American Psycho?

 

[High Fidelity]

What's your favourite part of American Psycho?

Hard to say favourite part of the movie, but my favourite part about the movie is the portrayal of conformity and what the pursuit of it can mask.

Favourite part is probably the club scene.

"So what are you in to?"
"Murders and executions, mostly"
"I have a friend in mergers and acquisitions!"

 

[Alyssa12]

Lol, ya it is hard to pick a favourite part of that movie.

 

[sunshineforJesus]

So whats your fave movie?

 

[Goodbook]

Alright, patrick, whats your testimony? How did you become a christian and what did Jesus set you free from?

 

[High Fidelity]

I've never been great with explaining it, honestly. It was a slow process. For the longest time I was atheist and for a good part of that I wasn't just atheist, I was anti-theist. I was consumed by hatred for religion to the point where I wouldn't celebrate Christmas because I argued family could get together on any time of the year and "You don't celebrate Eid because you aren't a Muslim -- I don't celebrate Christmas because I'm not a Christian" mentality.

I was very militant, really. You've seen God's Not Dead -- Well, I could easily have been that professor. I was so blinded by arrogance and ignorance that only God could have set me free from that.

I used to relax by smoking in my garden late at night. I didn't smoke that many but every now and then I'd stand at the door and have a coffee and a smoke, stare at the night sky and just think. It very quickly became an issue of believing it could simply have come from nothing; especially when considering the immensity of it all.

I look in to several religions. I even contacted an imam of a mosque and asked some questions but he never got back to me. I continued with my research and reading texts and when I read The Bible it just grabbed me and felt right. I resisted at first for several reasons; I was still struggling to believe because it was not my nature(given I was atheist for so long) and I also struggled with the fact that if I did become religious then I'd lose the vast majority of my friends and it would have affected my relationships with family. To a certain point that is the case and it will continue to be the case as I have found myself distancing myself from most negative influences in my life that draw my attention too much from faith and most of the time that's my non-Christian friends.

Anyway, not a great testimony by any stretch but I suck at explaining it which doesn't help lol.

 

[Goodbook]

S'ok. Good answer anyway..I think we all ought to have an answer to anyone who asks why we have the hope that we have in us.

What Bible version did you first read, and what scripture really spoke to you when you first read it?

 

[High Fidelity]

I started with the KJV. It felt like the traditional translation given where I'm from but I eventually started researching translations and accuracy and ended up moving over to the ESV and eventually on to the one I use now, NASB which is widely considered the most accurate English translation.

I started reading the OT at first but I really struggled to reconcile a creation account with my worldview at the time. I was trying to make Scripture fit my worldview until I eventually realised that was the wrong way of going about it. So I moved on to the NT and started with Matthew and that's what hooked my mind and heart. The Parables especially and the Sower is a great way of understanding things and that helped me 'soften' my heart I suppose and it flourished from there.

 

[Goodbook]

Hmm well, I hope your heart is softened so that you can bear much fruit.
Did you switch from presy to baptist?

The parable of the sower is one of my favourites too.

 

[High Fidelity]

Hmm well, I hope your heart is softened so that you can bear much fruit.
Did you switch from presy to baptist?

The parable of the sower is one of my favourites too.

I wasn't Presbyterian before and it wasn't until I started looking at Baptist churches and what I can expect to hear taught there that I changed my 'label' from non-denomination to Baptist. I wanted to avoid labels for the most part but I like Baptist because it accurately sums up my beliefs.

 

[Goodbook]

Oh ok i thought you were for some reason presy since you kinda leaned toward calvinism.

My mistake.
I dont have a label myself as just put christian. But I go to a baptist church where I have fellowship. Are you currently fellowshipping in one?