Quote (El1te @ 8 Nov 2023 23:35)
I as well, once you understand the Devil your perspective changes entirely.
The path to enlightenment is through the capital virtue of humility - it's the lack of humility that causes one to forsake Christ and reject His name, once you admit the truth to yourself that you are but a single node in the divine lattice of existence, you are ready to submit to God and all his divine grandeur.
I pity these people for they are already very much ensnared by the Devil, he's the master of deception. Although the Devil is weak and nothing before the power of God, and one can break through their chains even when they are very deep in his grasp.
Wow very well said! God bless you my friend!
I speak from direct experience and I was a lot like the people here who "don't get Jesus". I was a "casual catholic" who barely went to church but was still baptized, communion, and confirmed but I didn't have a great bond with Jesus because I was young and thought it was all "kinda bullshit". I didn't believe by a few sins I would be thrown into hell and I also didn't believe that a few good deeds got me into heaven. I went off to college and just studied my ass off to get good grades.
That summer my life changed forever. I had a stroke while playing hockey. A transient ischemic attack (TIA) Often called a ministroke it lasted but a few minutes but was enough for me to look at the guys around me and say, "I'm dying. Take me to the hospital". On the way to the hospital I started to have OOB(Out of body experiences). I was flying above the van looking down at my body and floating in and out of consciousness. I was rushed into emergency care and then I blacked out. While I was "blacked out" I suddenly entered a "dream like state" but it was more lucid and real then life itself. I was standing on clouds and I saw the silhouette of an elderly man near the entrance to a doorway of pure white light. When I looked left and right I saw the outline of white marble/stone castle walls that went forever in all directions. At this exact moment I called out to the man and started to walk towards him. After a few steps I started to hear the voices of my mom, dad, girlfriend, cousin crying out to God to give me a 2nd chance. At this exact moment the voice of God rang through me, "Your time has not yet come you have much left to do". After I heard that voice I fell from the clouds and everything went dark. I felt rain drops hitting me and I sort of opened my eyes only to see I was a football field above the hospital. In a split second I crashed into my body in the ER and took a huge gasp of air as if I had been held under water for a prolonged period of time. I'll never forget asking the nurse if "this was heaven". She told me how for 5 minutes I was on the verge of a massive heart attack and then out of nowhere I stabilized to a normal heart rate. She then said, "Someone was looking you for you".
That was my affirmation. That was enough for me to realize I needed to do better as this being.
This is also why I don't hold it against people who don't believe. They didn't have a NDE and then the ensuing days later have encounters with the devil at night where my soul was being eaten alive and then having Christ come to my side EVERY time to defend me from this force and replenish me of all that it took.
So yea I do think Jesus Christ is my savior. Because I was the one who needed saving and he was the one who came.