Quote (Handcuffs @ Jun 19 2023 09:57am)
It is genuine, although I can understand why you'd be doubtful. What kind of 'testimony'?
Ill take that as a yes. i used to just do it from memory. memory is failing so i documented it in text. I have many testimonies this is just the beginning/the short version
tes·ti·mo·ny
noun
noun: testimony; plural noun: testimonies
a public recounting of a religious conversion or experience.wrote this on 2/24/2023
it was 7-8 years ago?
i spent my life chasing my own lusts.
one day i found my self due to health problems sitting in front of my computer just getting drunk again playing video games.
realizing the capabilities of the computer in front of me it got it in to my head somehow to "find the truth of it all". (this process i suppose went for a year abouts)
with out God even remotely on my mind I began. first thing I researched was money. what it was were it comes from.
after that I began to be filled with ideas. never did i think what a can of worms I had opened and probably why i have something to say on about every topic.
surprisingly some things began to reference back to scripture and i began to research religion (i had some knowledge of scripture at the time). for some reason i didnt think about christianity and i was about to wrap it up and the idea popped into my head "what about chrstianity" "naw" I said "to boring to plain" the idea come back to me. "you have to test it or your not being thorough about the whole thing" and there i was, at the beginning of arguments I would lose to this new found thing, my new ?philosophy?
but I did reply "ok but if it doest prove itself I can go back to drinking with out being pestered about all this stuff"
to my surprise it held up. I repented. later I forgave my trespassers. the alcohol is gone, the smoking is gone, many cumbersome things are gone, and i can still hardly believe it.
............. I will never go back to what I was.