User:AdBont

I've been raised in a secular family and didn't know anything else but evolution to be true. At the age of 17 I entered an education for laboratory analyst. For this education I took classes on cytology where I realized that a simple unicellular organism was already as complex as a huge city. This prompted me to ask my teachers about how life could have become so complex only by chemical processes and mere change, let alone how it could have emerged from inorganic matter in the first place. At the completion of my education no one had given me any satisfying answer to these questions, and by then I had realised that live arising from non-living matter would actually be impossible as shown by Pasteur`s law of biogenesis. I have always had a great interest in ancient cultures like Celts, Indians and so forth, and I found that they all had incommon the conviction that the world was created by a supernatural being. Philosophically this also made sense to me because the universe would need to have a cause of existence outside of itself. This lead me on a four-year journey in which I perused open minded but critically any religious, spiritual or philosophical explanation that I came across. But at the end of these four years I came to the notion that it may well be impossible for humans to understand what the origin, real purpose and destiny of everything is, so I decided to give up this quest. It was then that I was invited by stranger to visit her church. I had already been to some churches, but at these services I found nothing else but liturgy with no explanation on the world around me. But somehow I thought it might be worthwhile to give it one more try. In the sermon the preacher stated that it is impossible to be reconciled with God through human strength, which was exactly what I had found out myself. But he also told about the good news that God had provided salvation through Jesus Christ. This seemed too easy to be true, but I realised the only way to find out was to give it an honest try, so when the invitation was made to accept Jesus as my Saviour I jumped out of my chair and almost ran forward. I prayed a simple prayer of conversion, and, respectfully, challenged Jesus to show me if He is really God. From that moment on things completely changed, but actually it was me that was changed! In the week after this a lot of extraordinary things happened to me, too many to just explain it away as merely coincidence… From the very moment I had prayed the conversion prayer, suddenly felt a strong sense of peace in my heart, as I went home after this church service I had one word echoing in my mind; 'Home!'. A few days later I made the decision to stop using drugs, I was quite strongly addicted to marijuana. I had made such attempts many times before, but this time I was instantly and totally delivered from my addiction, I was actually shocked to notice myself being absolutely unstirred when marijuana was mentioned. I was also completely healed of hay fever and a whole lot other fantastic things happened. The next Sunday in church someone asked me how my week had been, so I had quite a lot to tell! Then, to my utter surprise, this person opened the Bible and showed me the scriptures that tell about all the things that God had done for me in that very past week! As I didn't know about these scriptures this was decisive prove to me that the Bible is truly the Word of God and that Jesus was indeed God and Saviour of humanity. It was on May 17th 1992 when I was found by Christ and there hasn't been a single day since that I doubted my faith in Him. This doesn't mean that I didn't had questions about all kinds of things, but I always brought these in prayer before my Lord and in due time He has always provided me with an answer, sometimes 'yes', sometimes 'no', sometimes 'wait'. Though I consider myself a layman, I've always been extremely interested in all kinds of science, from atomic to astronomical. Many times during evangelising conversations I have made good use of the scientific arguments I learned through the years to convince people that evolution isn't as scientific as it is being presented, opening their mind to the Biblical truth.

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