I have always believed there was a God who created me and the rest of the world and sent his son, our Lord Jesus Christ to save the few men who "will" surrender their lives to him. I lived the first 29 years of my life being a moralist, but knowing fully well that that won't save me, I figured I would enjoy some of what the world has to offer and then give my life to Christ sometimes before I die.
During this time, I didn't attend church much. I knew most churches had many things wrong, I didn't have much knowledge of scripture to back it up but i had read about stephen and apostle paul well before my teenage years, the impression of God, his servants and Christians I got from reading the book of the acts of apostles was at variance with what I observed about most churches but a few churches still seemed to me to have got it right.
In November 2013, I finally "gave my life to Christ" and began to attend a fairly popular church whose founder/pastor has a reputation for preaching sound doctrine, I enjoyed it for a while, in fact, it seemed to me then that I was led there by the spirit.the church had what they call "Apostolic training school" which i was enrolled in.During the apostolic training, I was taught the trinity doctrine, it just didn't make any sense to me, I sought clarification from the teachers and none of them could satisfactorily explain the doctrine using scripture. At about the same time, I realized that the church placed great emphasis on professional and financial achievements(a somewhat tame strain of the prosperity/word of faith movement).
During this time, I used to suffer from guilt feelings, I felt i wasn't sorry enough for my past sins.
The last straw that broke my camel's back was a sermon in the church in which the preacher said and used scripture to "prove" that anybody can live in health and wealth for just about as long as he/she wishes. I didn't and still don't know much scripture, but I just knew that it infringed on God's sovereignty. We were asked to proclaim long life in health and wealth for ourselves and people were happily doing so. That sunday was the last time i attended a service at that church, I stayed away from church for about 2 months then decided to try out another church(tilted towards holiness) that was reputed to also preach sound doctrine but after attending about 5 sundays, I realized they were very legalistic and also oftentimes forced scriptures to "support" their doctrines, they would only use the KJV.
I stopped attending that church too, at about this time, I came across the bible-truths.com website and it pleased God to open my eyes to the truth, I tried to convince my friends and other people I knew who had been "Christians" and been studying the bible for a long time but none of them ever came to see the truth, at this time, I still believed that I and all mankind possessed free will that was somewhat subjected to God. On delving further into the bible-truths.com website, I realized there I had no free will and that in fact, none of my "christian" friends will ever be convinced solely on the basis of whatever i tell them or what ever scripture I point them to unless God decides to drag them to him as he had dragged me. At this point, I realized to my horror that i was alone ! There was nobody I could discuss with, they were all sold out on these false teachers peddling heresies.So here I am on forums.bible-truths.com.I hope I haven't rambled too much
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