So I’ll start by saying that coming to a point to where I have absolute faith in an infinite deity happened pretty much by accident or chance. Long drive through west Texas ,nothing but 12 million miles of open highway and the only station I could get was one that had a daily program that took you through the Bible over the coarse of 5 years. Sounds rough right lol, this was about 15 years ago and the man who put that program together died in th mid 80s.
So I listened, his name was Dr. J Vernon McGee and he was explaining about Abraham and Lot’s flight from sodome, but at the same time he was giving some parallels of his today (1980s) and it was amazing because in say around 2005 it still applied then. But my point is he was able to take a book and explain why it was timeless to his day and at the same time showed it was still timeless in my day.
Here is the problem though, to many people and organizations have made “ seeking faith “ a for profit venture and have lost the trust of many people born into faithful families much less people like me who’s families never gave two shits about religion. But what started that night for me was a 15 year journey ( and you can give me all the shit you want about how corny it sounds lol) of reading books of faith and looking for people who are educated in the historical times in which the books are written that give an accurate depiction of what the author was trying to tell you. Islam, Judaism and Christianity are all Abrahamic religions and share so many similarities that it’s insane that there’s so much strife and conflict between them. If anyone is ever interested in some of the great things I’ve found that help me find faith just hit me up in pm I’d be glad to share.
One last thing, I was not down and out, on drugs or struggling with suicide or crazy life circumstances when this started for me, it just out of the blue happened and honestly I feel like it’s the greatest achievement of my life.
