How I Became A Christian.
How i became a Christian.
Before i was born my mother had 5 Mis-carrages. When i was finally concieved my mother was told at the day of my birth that she had a 0% survival rate and i had a 50% survival rate. My mother not being religeous, some how summed up the corage to follow threw. We both miraculously survived. 2 weeks before i was born my father was incarsarated for 20 years for 2 strong armed bank robberies. At the age of 2 my 15 year old brother was shot in the heart from a rival gang and killed. This caused my 2 oldest sisters to start doing drugs and drinking. My oldest sister became skitsophrenic and bipolar and was also raped and became pregnant with child. At the age of 5 my crazy sister tryed to commit suicide by jumping out of are 3rd story apt. Me and my mom stoped her. (I tryed what i could.. pulling her ancle) Shortly after that she dangled my 2 year old neice out of the window but didnt harm her. That was the last straw... My sister went to a physch ward and my nephews and neices went to foster care. After a few weeks i realized they wherent comming back. They where like brothers and sisters to me since we where so close in age. For the next five years me and my mom bounced around and at the age of 10 my 2nd oldest sister got married and adopted all of my nephew and neices back into the family's custody. From 10 to 14 me and my mom where homeless. At 14 my sisters husband went ballistic and broke my 2 year old nephews arm's and fractured his skull in 2 places. He was sentenced to 8 years, my sister devorced and everyone went back to foster-care. That happend my first week of high school and greatly effected my attendance. At 15 i received a phone call from my mom saying she was with my dad.... ( I never met him in person, and only talked to him a few times on the phone, but received alot of mail from him.) I didnt want to meet him but i was sort of forced into it. This happened on aug 1 2005 and after a week i fell in love with my dad. Just 3 weeks after meeting him he was moving into our new found home. It was aug 24 2005 that he was expected to move in at 6 pm. That same day i received a phone call at 7pm telling me that my father had been fataly wounded by a shot gun blast to the head... My father had accumalated alot of enemys being in the Mexican mafia. we burried my father on aug 29 and my 16th birthday was the 30th. A few months later a man that my mother dated off and on threw out my life was killed in prision from tainted heroin. This caused my mom to start doing drugs and alcochol for the first time to my knowlege. Shortly after she hooked up with a new boy friend and picked him over me and kicked me out on the streets at 16. During the new few years of my life i was a drifter and a loner. I spent alot of time wallowing in my own sorrow and eventually became very emotionaly unstable. I tryed to suppress all the pain by getting high. I developed a pretty fierce heroin addiction and started breaking into cars to sum up cash for drugs. Then at the age of 19 a christian family took me into their home because i was homeless and gave me food and clothing as well. After 2 months they asked me to read the bible with them. I agreed even tho i was an athiest, i figured it was the least that i could do for all they did for me. I started reading proverbs and some where in the midst of reading it I became convicted... My conscience condemned me and for the first time in my life i realized i was a sinner. The Law of God was perfect for converting the soul just as the psalmist said.. I realized what the cross meant.. i understood what grace was... I was a lieing theiving blaspheming adultresses murderer at heart... and God being good and loving,,, i thought would let me into heaven. Then i realized that because God Is Good and Loves... Justice and righteousness would have seen that i received what i deserved... Death for that was the wage i worked for. I accepted Jesus for who He is... Lord. And He transformed my life from the inside out. He's called me to be a pastor and has blessed my memory. I was once at loss to remember my cell phone number and now i have books of the bible memorized. The Lord has healed me of my emotional instability and liberated me and my family from the bondage of drugs and much more... the slavery of sin. God bless
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P.s. I know very well of my short comings to grammar and miss-spelling.
Do your best to translate miss-spelled words.
Do your best to translate miss-spelled words.
i think i did something like this once before
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cool story bro.
I know its wrong to troll but seriously that is an absurd wall of text.
Okay so I decided to give it a shot and try and read it.. I got through what would be the first paragraph..
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Pretty sure it's a troll.
idk, i know mnkk, and it might actually be true lol
Leviathan.Hohenheim said: »
idk, i know mnkk, and it might actually be true lol
How I became a Christian:
I was born into a religious family and it was not accepted that one of us might not follow the same path. I was indoctrinated from birth, converted to Christianity (from what I have no clue) at the age of 5, baptized at the age of ten, and every time I questioned it I was told "Put not the Lord your God to the test."
Then I grew up, moved out, and moved on.
Don't get me wrong, it's perfectly fine to be a Christian. But it's really not perfectly fine to try to make everyone else around you be Christians too. :/
I was born into a religious family and it was not accepted that one of us might not follow the same path. I was indoctrinated from birth, converted to Christianity (from what I have no clue) at the age of 5, baptized at the age of ten, and every time I questioned it I was told "Put not the Lord your God to the test."
Then I grew up, moved out, and moved on.
Don't get me wrong, it's perfectly fine to be a Christian. But it's really not perfectly fine to try to make everyone else around you be Christians too. :/
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Odin.Liela said: »
How I became a Christian:
I was born into a religious family and it was not accepted that one of us might not follow the same path. I was indoctrinated from birth, converted to Christianity (from what I have no clue) at the age of 5, baptized at the age of ten, and every time I questioned it I was told "Put not the Lord your God to the test."
Then I grew up, moved out, and moved on.
Don't get me wrong, it's perfectly fine to be a Christian. But it's really not perfectly fine to try to make everyone else around you be Christians too. :/
I was born into a religious family and it was not accepted that one of us might not follow the same path. I was indoctrinated from birth, converted to Christianity (from what I have no clue) at the age of 5, baptized at the age of ten, and every time I questioned it I was told "Put not the Lord your God to the test."
Then I grew up, moved out, and moved on.
Don't get me wrong, it's perfectly fine to be a Christian. But it's really not perfectly fine to try to make everyone else around you be Christians too. :/
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Josiah shooting for mod.. The most anti-controversial mod ever.. Fixing people's pics and posts for them..
Josiahkf said: »
I corrected the grammar and spaced it a bit based on your points to make it more readable. On topic all I will say is, I'm very glad religious and spirituality has helped you take control of your life in such a strong way[/quote]
religious is an adjective when it should be in a nominative noun form ;;
(sorry >_> only way to keep myself from exploding about religion)
True story. My moms going back and forth but getting better since she doesnt get high as often. And if you dont believe me check my facebook
Angel Carbajal is my name. I have a white dress shirt in my picture. I put that story up 1.5 years ago. Gods made my trials and heart ache, that will usually set in the minds of many... PROOF that there is no "God", as a means for me to reach out to hurting children and people with a rough up bringing. I could never relate to church folk because when they told me God had a plan for my life, i could just look into there eyes and tell they never had to sleep in a park or in a car for months or knew what it was like to be hooked on drugs... so i felt like they didnt have the right to tell me "Its gona be okay" Now when i reach out to people who have been in similar heart aches and pains, they accept me as a authentic... because i in fact am.. I know what its like to endure pain as a young person, and to endure it alone. God bless you guys, and for anyone who hates my typing or my story, and God, I got one thing to tell you dude..... God loves you. Have a good day.
Angel Carbajal is my name. I have a white dress shirt in my picture. I put that story up 1.5 years ago. Gods made my trials and heart ache, that will usually set in the minds of many... PROOF that there is no "God", as a means for me to reach out to hurting children and people with a rough up bringing. I could never relate to church folk because when they told me God had a plan for my life, i could just look into there eyes and tell they never had to sleep in a park or in a car for months or knew what it was like to be hooked on drugs... so i felt like they didnt have the right to tell me "Its gona be okay" Now when i reach out to people who have been in similar heart aches and pains, they accept me as a authentic... because i in fact am.. I know what its like to endure pain as a young person, and to endure it alone. God bless you guys, and for anyone who hates my typing or my story, and God, I got one thing to tell you dude..... God loves you. Have a good day.
Long version:
Short version:
"So basically a LOT of bad things happened in my life. I cherry picked what I liked in the bible and now I am christian."
Leviathan.Mnkk said: »
Before i was born my mother had 5 Mis-carrages. When i was finally concieved my mother was told at the day of my birth that she had a 0% survival rate and i had a 50% survival rate. My mother not being religeous, some how summed up the corage to follow threw. We both miraculously survived. 2 weeks before i was born my father was incarsarated for 20 years for 2 strong armed bank robberies. At the age of 2 my 15 year old brother was shot in the heart from a rival gang and killed. This caused my 2 oldest sisters to start doing drugs and drinking. My oldest sister became skitsophrenic and bipolar and was also raped and became pregnant with child. At the age of 5 my crazy sister tryed to commit suicide by jumping out of are 3rd story apt. Me and my mom stoped her. (I tryed what i could.. pulling her ancle) Shortly after that she dangled my 2 year old neice out of the window but didnt harm her. That was the last straw... My sister went to a physch ward and my nephews and neices went to foster care. After a few weeks i realized they wherent comming back. They where like brothers and sisters to me since we where so close in age. For the next five years me and my mom bounced around and at the age of 10 my 2nd oldest sister got married and adopted all of my nephew and neices back into the family's custody. From 10 to 14 me and my mom where homeless. At 14 my sisters husband went ballistic and broke my 2 year old nephews arm's and fractured his skull in 2 places. He was sentenced to 8 years, my sister devorced and everyone went back to foster-care. That happend my first week of high school and greatly effected my attendance. At 15 i received a phone call from my mom saying she was with my dad.... ( I never met him in person, and only talked to him a few times on the phone, but received alot of mail from him.) I didnt want to meet him but i was sort of forced into it. This happened on aug 1 2005 and after a week i fell in love with my dad. Just 3 weeks after meeting him he was moving into our new found home. It was aug 24 2005 that he was expected to move in at 6 pm. That same day i received a phone call at 7pm telling me that my father had been fataly wounded by a shot gun blast to the head... My father had accumalated alot of enemys being in the Mexican mafia. we burried my father on aug 29 and my 16th birthday was the 30th. A few months later a man that my mother dated off and on threw out my life was killed in prision from tainted heroin. This caused my mom to start doing drugs and alcochol for the first time to my knowlege. Shortly after she hooked up with a new boy friend and picked him over me and kicked me out on the streets at 16. During the new few years of my life i was a drifter and a loner. I spent alot of time wallowing in my own sorrow and eventually became very emotionaly unstable. I tryed to suppress all the pain by getting high. I developed a pretty fierce heroin addiction and started breaking into cars to sum up cash for drugs. Then at the age of 19 a christian family took me into their home because i was homeless and gave me food and clothing as well. After 2 months they asked me to read the bible with them. I agreed even tho i was an athiest, i figured it was the least that i could do for all they did for me. I started reading proverbs and some where in the midst of reading it I became convicted... My conscience condemned me and for the first time in my life i realized i was a sinner. The Law of God was perfect for converting the soul just as the psalmist said.. I realized what the cross meant.. i understood what grace was... I was a lieing theiving blaspheming adultresses murderer at heart... and God being good and loving,,, i thought would let me into heaven. Then i realized that because God Is Good and Loves... Justice and righteousness would have seen that i received what i deserved... Death for that was the wage i worked for. I accepted Jesus for who He is... Lord. And He transformed my life from the inside out. He's called me to be a pastor and has blessed my memory. I was once at loss to remember my cell phone number and now i have books of the bible memorized. The Lord has healed me of my emotional instability and liberated me and my family from the bondage of drugs and much more... the slavery of sin. God bless
Short version:
"So basically a LOT of bad things happened in my life. I cherry picked what I liked in the bible and now I am christian."
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gaaaaaarghjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjl musssssssst.....stopppppppp..
god doesn't love me >_>
god doesn't love me >_>
We don't hate your story, we just know there isn't a god.
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And one last thing, to any who may think that my faith is ok for me and not okay to share, i leave you with this... If i truly believed that Jesus Christ is the only way anyone would get to heaven and everyone else will parish in hell, and didn't attempt to inform you or at least share my story... What kinda person would that make me? If you seen a child walking into traffic surely you would stop the child... but you are not children, you are men and women... and if you seen a man walking into unseen traffic at least you would give a shout.
You are completely insane. /thread
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I was Christian for most of my young life, I even went back to it for my father's approval in my teens.. At all times I was a practicing Christian.. Not the "yes I believe in God" but praying, reading the bible, going to Church, etc.."
I was also on my own being brought up, and endured more than my fair share of pain, both physical and mental, both brought on by others and by situations that really out of my control and anyone elses..
But I didn't turn to a God for strength or try to find a reason for the suffering and pain.. '***happens'.. My experiences aren't the reason I don't believe in God, I don't believe in God because none of it makes sense, it's just far too inconsistent.
I was also on my own being brought up, and endured more than my fair share of pain, both physical and mental, both brought on by others and by situations that really out of my control and anyone elses..
But I didn't turn to a God for strength or try to find a reason for the suffering and pain.. '***happens'.. My experiences aren't the reason I don't believe in God, I don't believe in God because none of it makes sense, it's just far too inconsistent.
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A child walking into traffic is actually walking into danger; a man walking without an imaginary person who never actually existed by his side is a man walking without an imaginary person who never actually existed at his side.
You refer to him as Jesus.
You refer to him as Jesus.
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God of the bible is so loving.
God said - "Let there be rape"
You can comment on saving children walking accross the street and saving them. But you dont need faith in some magic man to be a good person and do good things.
God said - "Let there be rape"
You can comment on saving children walking accross the street and saving them. But you dont need faith in some magic man to be a good person and do good things.
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Lakshmi.Rearden said: »
A child walking into traffic is actually walking into danger; a man walking without an imaginary person who never actually existed by his side is a man walking without an imaginary person who never actually existed at his side.
You refer to him as Jesus.
You refer to him as Jesus.
To be fair we know Jesus existed.
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Shiva.Xellith said: »
God of the bible is so loving.
God said - "Let there be rape"
You can comment on saving children walking accross the street and saving them. But you dont need faith in some magic man to be a good person and do good things.
God said - "Let there be rape"
You can comment on saving children walking accross the street and saving them. But you dont need faith in some magic man to be a good person and do good things.
religion sucks
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