@GodlessNidemos @darwintojesus @Captain_DadPool Have you ever seen someone's taste in entertainment, speech, political views, desire to read the Bible, desire to tell people about Christ all change in an instant? A complete 180 degree turn, seemingly overnight? Where the people closest to them actually believe they went crazy?
@GodlessNidemos @darwintojesus @Captain_DadPool Ever see a person go from having no conscience to an incredibly active one? In an instant?
@toast3dbag3ls @darwintojesus @Captain_DadPool Perhaps, but not one single instance is it forever and always consistently pure. They still falter and/or backslide.
@GodlessNidemos @darwintojesus @Captain_DadPool It is totally unbiblical for anyone to perfectly pure, it's a process called sanctification and it takes a lifetime. You increase in righteousness across your life and fight against sin where you used to indulge it. Also there are many parables about "backsliders" such as
@GodlessNidemos @darwintojesus @Captain_DadPool The parable of the sower, the wheat and the tares, the wolves in sheep's clothing, the tree and their fruit. This covers a wide array of false converts, false teachers, hypocrites, and people who fall away. Lastly, in my entire 33 years of life before bring saved I never saw
@GodlessNidemos @darwintojesus @Captain_DadPool Anyone radically change like this, outside of being saved by Christ and claiming it so. So if you don't belive in Jesus.. what is changing these people? Why are they all saying it's Jesus? Why am I claiming that Jesus specifically saved me?
@toast3dbag3ls @darwintojesus @Captain_DadPool Social contagion theory, in-group bias, indoctrination, post-traumatic responses... You live in a generally Christian bubble. There's ~1 + billion Muslims that would tell us following Allah is the way to peace.
@GodlessNidemos @darwintojesus @Captain_DadPool Not 1 of those would explain what happened to me, and there are millions of others who it wouldn't apply to either.
@toast3dbag3ls @darwintojesus @Captain_DadPool You really do not understand the outsider test for faith do you?
@GodlessNidemos @darwintojesus @Captain_DadPool Never heard of it. However I do know Christ. I know what happened to me. I know I am not crazy. My wife and family know something happened to me.
@toast3dbag3ls @darwintojesus @Captain_DadPool Well I hope your beliefs lift them up and you're happy with it I guess. 🙃🙃
@GodlessNidemos @darwintojesus @Captain_DadPool God has changed me and made me the type of husband and father they need, though I continue to fall short. Without Christ, as much as i tried to resist it, I was ending up just like my own father. However, those bonds were broken and the destiny of my family changed in an instant.