I found CLE from doing a facebook search looking for keywords to find other bornagain Christians in my area and found Chris. Josh B told me I should join the forum so here I am. Below is a copy of my testimony I wrote awhile back. Also I'm Zach's friend that he wrote about in his post.
My name is Josh. I was raised catholic but at 14 I rejected Catholicism and the bible and Jesus Christ as lies and went out searching for the truth because they definitely weren't it. I spent the next few years researching and studying more conspiracies and lies like the religious ones I was previously enslaved to. I found out that we have been lied to by education, media, government, health industry, religion, and the world at large about everything including who we are and the very nature of our existence. The lies are at the depth that no one in the world is exempt from being deceived. I was proud that I knew the truth while everyone else is deceived. Every time I was proud and talked down to others I would research and find yet another lie and that thinking I knew the truth had been deceived yet again. It is a humbling experience. Pride prevents us from finding the truth because we proudly already know and wouldn't stoop so low to humble ourselves and admit they we have been deceived. A good scholar is not proud but humble and examines both or all sides before coming to any conclusions or making any assumptions. I got interested in the New Age truth movement when I started listening to David Icke. About a year later I found out that although he told alot of truth and exposed the supernatural evil in this world to be spirits he himself talked to spirits I found out in a video by a man exposing him. Icke always called the evil spirits reptilian shape shifters and the spirits he talked to the guys or his guides. The man who exposed him said they are the same and they are both demonic entitys or demons. The man said if you want to know God and know the truth all you need to do is understand that all have sinned and broken Gods commandments and laws and repent: call out to God and say God I am sorry for sinning and breaking your laws and commandments, have mercy on me and please forgive me; and then go and sin no more he said. Now new agers believe in a impersonal god which is the universe so I didn't know if God was real or not but being humbled so low I thought what do I have to lose if God isn't real. So I called out to God believing he was real and apologized for sinning and asked for forgiveness and I immediately felt this huge weight I was previously unaware of being lifted off of me and felt this overwhelming sense of joy and peace and thankfulness. I then went on to research more in depth that which I had previously studied that disproved the Bible and Jesus Christ. I found that all who professionally presented such information who I looked to before were involved in freemasonry and or some other secret society or occult and their information sources cited are inadequate, unreputable, inaccurate, but for the most part non-existent. I found the more I studied, that I was unable to find any solid evidence disproving the Bible and Jesus Christ but when I put the thought that satan is a real supernatural being, and his goal is to rob, kill, and destroy everyone through lies and deception, with the fact that the love of money is the root of all evil and the men who have the most money in the world and rule the world also partake in satanic rituals and the evil in this world is supernatural or on such a large scale that no man or group of men could possible orchestrate such a feat, all of my research for the past few years that before seemed unrelated and didn't match up or amount to any great conclusion or solution, now it was all simultaneously connected and related and everything matched up and nothing was out of place and it all suddenly made complete sense. If you want to fight and defeat your enemy, you must first know who your enemy is so you can fight him. So if the enemy is satan then the number one thing he wants to keep you from is having a relationship with God, so the best way to fight him is to seek out a relationship with God. So I started reading the bible and keeping Gods commandments and God started setting me free from my sins that the enemy used to keep me in bondage. God gave me a new heart with new desires so the sinful things I used to love and enjoy doing, I now all of a sudden hated and found disgusting and I was ashamed for ever doing them. Now my delight is in keeping Gods commandments and they are not burdensome but easy and light. Of all the things I have seen and experienced I now stand as a witness and testify of the Truth that Jesus Christ is the only begotten son of the living God. Jesus Christ has saved me from death and it is written in Romans 10:9-15 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
I hope this helps, God bless them who read this.
