- Dec 15, 2014
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Hello there everyone. I must say that I have been an atheist for 4 years if I'm not wrong, from April 2011, it's almost 4 years. But how did I come back to Christ? If someone wants to know my story, here it is.
I grew up on a Eastern Orthodox Christian loving (very loving) family, that taught me about God, I lived in Romania, my country until I was 4, then I moved with my family to Spain, where I met the catholic world. The other romanians, at school, didn't want to take the religion class (here in Europe we're taught religion at school) instead they took the Ethics class, but my mother sent me to the Catholic religion class saying that it will be good for me, there is one god and our churches are sisters. There I learned more about God and the years kept passing, and I moved again to my country at age 12. Then, after two years I became an convinced atheist. Religion seemed so prohibitive to me, seemed so irrelevant and Christ, even if I didn't have anything against him, seemed history to me. I thought we are a modern world which needs no religion and I took the atheist way. I even convinced a school mate during High School (I didn't ended it yet, i'm only 17 and this is my last year at High School) which was an Orthodox believer like me and like all of my classmates and the majority (more than 80% of my country are Eastern Orthodox Christians) to be an atheist (Now i'm talking to him about God and he is talking to me about atheism, using all the arguments I used to formerly convert him, how ironicaly!) but it all ended a little time ago when I found God again. Everything took sense right then to me, the Bible, Christ's word and everything, now I'm very happy being again a believer and listening to His words, knowing that there is nothing bad on Christ's words (absolutely nothing bad, really) and I am being a better person.
What made me change? Well, my entourage had a fault in all of this. My friends are good people, very good and nice to me, but not all of them are like that, really. Not necsesarily to me, but I've seen that the majority of my High School, even being called christians by themselves, serves God only with their words, not with their heart, their heart is very away from god. Always hearing injuries about God, hearing injuries to Him, only being preocupated by sex, alcohol, parties or smoking (not drugs because here in my country are not that popular like on the other countries, but there is a lot of tobacco and alcohol), and decence is mostly gone among them. They are kept in chains by vices, and if I say something about OUR religion to them they would probably laugh at me. I am proud of myself, I don't drink and I don't smoke (I don't want to seem a saint, I don't drink alcohol because I hate the taste and what it does to people and smelling of tobacco makes me sick).
When I was an atheist, even if I didn't believe, I never insulted God in any way, something inside me kept me from doing this, and I was saying to myself that if I'm good, and kind, God will love me no matter of my confession, but I can't not listen to His words now, reading the Bible makes me happy knowing that He said those words, and He taught that to us only for our good, and we don't appreciate it. It surprised me that God's word could grow so inside of me even at the very first sight, and I found in the Bible the answers to a lot of problems of my life and of my situation.
There it is guys, I think I've made a confession there
Blessed be all of you and thank you for listening to me.
I grew up on a Eastern Orthodox Christian loving (very loving) family, that taught me about God, I lived in Romania, my country until I was 4, then I moved with my family to Spain, where I met the catholic world. The other romanians, at school, didn't want to take the religion class (here in Europe we're taught religion at school) instead they took the Ethics class, but my mother sent me to the Catholic religion class saying that it will be good for me, there is one god and our churches are sisters. There I learned more about God and the years kept passing, and I moved again to my country at age 12. Then, after two years I became an convinced atheist. Religion seemed so prohibitive to me, seemed so irrelevant and Christ, even if I didn't have anything against him, seemed history to me. I thought we are a modern world which needs no religion and I took the atheist way. I even convinced a school mate during High School (I didn't ended it yet, i'm only 17 and this is my last year at High School) which was an Orthodox believer like me and like all of my classmates and the majority (more than 80% of my country are Eastern Orthodox Christians) to be an atheist (Now i'm talking to him about God and he is talking to me about atheism, using all the arguments I used to formerly convert him, how ironicaly!) but it all ended a little time ago when I found God again. Everything took sense right then to me, the Bible, Christ's word and everything, now I'm very happy being again a believer and listening to His words, knowing that there is nothing bad on Christ's words (absolutely nothing bad, really) and I am being a better person.
What made me change? Well, my entourage had a fault in all of this. My friends are good people, very good and nice to me, but not all of them are like that, really. Not necsesarily to me, but I've seen that the majority of my High School, even being called christians by themselves, serves God only with their words, not with their heart, their heart is very away from god. Always hearing injuries about God, hearing injuries to Him, only being preocupated by sex, alcohol, parties or smoking (not drugs because here in my country are not that popular like on the other countries, but there is a lot of tobacco and alcohol), and decence is mostly gone among them. They are kept in chains by vices, and if I say something about OUR religion to them they would probably laugh at me. I am proud of myself, I don't drink and I don't smoke (I don't want to seem a saint, I don't drink alcohol because I hate the taste and what it does to people and smelling of tobacco makes me sick).
When I was an atheist, even if I didn't believe, I never insulted God in any way, something inside me kept me from doing this, and I was saying to myself that if I'm good, and kind, God will love me no matter of my confession, but I can't not listen to His words now, reading the Bible makes me happy knowing that He said those words, and He taught that to us only for our good, and we don't appreciate it. It surprised me that God's word could grow so inside of me even at the very first sight, and I found in the Bible the answers to a lot of problems of my life and of my situation.
There it is guys, I think I've made a confession there
Blessed be all of you and thank you for listening to me.
