User:AdeBont

I've been raised completely secular and didn't know anything else but evolution to be true. At the age of 17 I took on a professional education for laboratory assistant. For this education I also attended the subject cytology where I realized that a simple one celled organism was already as complex as a huge city. This made me to ask my teachers about how life could have become so complex out of itself, let alone how it could have emerged from inorganic matter in the first place. At the end of my study no one had ever given me any satisfactory answer to these questions, even more I learned that live arising from non-living matter would actually be impossible as shown by Pasteur`s law of biogenesis. I also had a great interest in ancient cultures (like Celts, Indians and so forth) and I realised that among a lot of things they all had in common they all believed that the world was created by a supernatural being. Philosophically this also made sense to me because in fact the whole universe needed 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 this 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 a girl on the street on the street to visit her (evangelical) church. I had already been to a catholic and even a Pentecostal church (in neither I found anything else but liturgy with no explanation on the world around me), but I thought it would be fine to give it this 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, but from that moment on things really changed for me, actually it was me that was changed! In the week after this a lot of supernatural things happened to me, too many to just explain it away as merely coincidence… I suddenly a strong sense of peace in my heart, even already on my bike going home after this church service I had one word echoing in my mind; 'Home!'. Once I made a convicted decision to stop using drugs (including alcohol) I was instantly and totally delivered of marijuana addiction, I was actually shocked to notice myself being absolutely unstirred when marijuana was mentioned in anyway. I was also completely healed of hay fever and a whole lot more 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. It is in this that God has provided answers in abundance through the ministry of CMI (and others) for which I'm very grateful. 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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