Here is my experience...I thought I had come to God about 12 years ago. I went through the motions of going to church off and on, that was the extent of it. About 11 years ago I swallowed a lot of pills followed by a bottle of wine. I did not die for two reasons...the wine made me very sick and everything came back up and secondly and most importantly, it was not the time that God set for my death. I back slide for a number of years and would go to church off and on but never really tried to know God. It wasn't till about a year and a half ago that I really felt God guiding me toward to Him. It was a pull I guess you could say, that I couldn't resist. There was no saying no. I do not feel that before I was a Christian. If someone asks me how long I have been a Christian, I will say a year and a half. I was baptized 12 years ago but it was just a going with the flow thing. So, my point is that I feel God has set a time, His time for us to now longer be here. If something we do causes our lives to end, I can't see how that is what God has already laid out for us. I could be totally wrong but I feel it is the truth.