I have always sort of believed in God, but as a teen that changed. Somehow I knew there was a God and as a junior in high school I was saved and baptized by water. Then over the next several years, I slowly fell deeper and deeper back into a life of sin. I had a difficult time with adjusting to adulthood, I hated life, I hated myself and I did things I will die regretting.
For thirty years I believed the devil hated me and God didn't want me. I thought I was cursed and God had truly turned His back on me. During that time I fell in love and got married. It didn't change my hate for myself. I laughed as often as I could to hide the misery that tortured me inside.
Near the end of 2017, God opened my eyes to how real He is. I always knew God was real, but He opened my eyes to a whole new level and I realized what a fool I had been for so long. He changed me inside like I never thought was possible. I stopped hating myself and I learned how much God actually loved me. Let me tell you it is an absolutely awesome thing when you truly open yourself up to God's love and learn how great He is!
As I started reading the Bible, God opened my eyes a second time. He showed me how there is so much that churches are teaching wrong! He revealed to me the reason why we have literally thousands of denominations in Christianity, all with different sets of doctrines they teach. Because they all believe they are guided by the Holy Spirit as they interpret the Bible. That bothered me. How can I expect myself to find the truth when so many who believed they were guided by the Holy Spirit have found different truths? That became my biggest prayer every time I studied the Bible. I asked God to show me how to find the truth. Not man's interpretation of the truth, but His truth. And God opened my eyes a third time.
As I was studying the Bible, God revealed the simplest fact to me. There can be no contradiction in His words! As I continued to study it, I began to see verses that were so plainly stated that it was impossible to interpret them wrong. They left no part for the reader to assume. They said exactly what they mean and they mean exactly what they say. If there can be no contradictions, then logically these verses must speak 100% truth! I started referring to these scriptures as "Primary" verses and every subject I studied, I began searching through every verse that was associated with that doctrine and finding the Primary verses. Then every other verse had to be interpreted to support the primary verses. As I did that, I found the entire Bible lined up perfectly! The most amazing thing is that every doctrine seems to have at least one primary verse.
I began creating my website One God Logic and writing articles for it. Inside two years, I believe I have found the truth of God's Word. Not my truth or any persons interpretation of the truth. But God's Truth!
I believe God is an awesome God. He is the one True God and He reveals Himself in three separate entities. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. I believe the Son, Jesus Christ, is God in the flesh and He loved us so much that He took on flesh and set His powers aside for a little while, and became lower than the angels. He lived by pure Faith, and it was the Father and the Holy Spirit that performed many miracles through that faith. Then fully understanding what he was going to go through, He willingly let them arrest Him, beat him, ridicule Him, and scourge Him. Then they nailed Him to the cross. He willingly went through this torturous death because he knew that mankind could never be good enough to reach heaven. So He chose to take on flesh and become the only sacrifice that was pure and holy enough that we could all be saved.
Every man made religion bases our salvation off of man earning his way into paradise. That is because man has a natural need to want to feel in control of his own destiny. That is one way you know that Christianity is the one true religion. It is the only one where God loves us so much, that He actually sacrificed Himself to save us!
We do not need to jump through hoops or run any gauntlet to reach heaven. We don't need to reach a stage of perfection in our own lives. Our salvation is strictly a gift from God. It is not by works of any kind, or by water baptism, or by repenting of sins as so many churches teach. It is a free gift from God to those who believe.
Romans 10:9-10 (NASB)
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
All you need to do is believe in your heart that Jesus is the Son of God, that He died on the cross and rose from the dead to save you! The moment you believe that in your heart, you will be saved!
If you think about it that is even logical in how it would work. For if you don't believe, then how can you possible accept a gift that you don't believe is real? So logically you would need to believe it for it to save you. And at OneGodLogic.com, I give so much reasoning and logic to how real God is. I explain all the true doctrines according to God's Truth. If you truly believe in your heart, then you will be saved. After that all you need to do is start learning more about God because He has big plans for you.
For thirty years I believed the devil hated me and God didn't want me. I thought I was cursed and God had truly turned His back on me. During that time I fell in love and got married. It didn't change my hate for myself. I laughed as often as I could to hide the misery that tortured me inside.
Near the end of 2017, God opened my eyes to how real He is. I always knew God was real, but He opened my eyes to a whole new level and I realized what a fool I had been for so long. He changed me inside like I never thought was possible. I stopped hating myself and I learned how much God actually loved me. Let me tell you it is an absolutely awesome thing when you truly open yourself up to God's love and learn how great He is!
As I started reading the Bible, God opened my eyes a second time. He showed me how there is so much that churches are teaching wrong! He revealed to me the reason why we have literally thousands of denominations in Christianity, all with different sets of doctrines they teach. Because they all believe they are guided by the Holy Spirit as they interpret the Bible. That bothered me. How can I expect myself to find the truth when so many who believed they were guided by the Holy Spirit have found different truths? That became my biggest prayer every time I studied the Bible. I asked God to show me how to find the truth. Not man's interpretation of the truth, but His truth. And God opened my eyes a third time.
As I was studying the Bible, God revealed the simplest fact to me. There can be no contradiction in His words! As I continued to study it, I began to see verses that were so plainly stated that it was impossible to interpret them wrong. They left no part for the reader to assume. They said exactly what they mean and they mean exactly what they say. If there can be no contradictions, then logically these verses must speak 100% truth! I started referring to these scriptures as "Primary" verses and every subject I studied, I began searching through every verse that was associated with that doctrine and finding the Primary verses. Then every other verse had to be interpreted to support the primary verses. As I did that, I found the entire Bible lined up perfectly! The most amazing thing is that every doctrine seems to have at least one primary verse.
I began creating my website One God Logic and writing articles for it. Inside two years, I believe I have found the truth of God's Word. Not my truth or any persons interpretation of the truth. But God's Truth!
I believe God is an awesome God. He is the one True God and He reveals Himself in three separate entities. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. I believe the Son, Jesus Christ, is God in the flesh and He loved us so much that He took on flesh and set His powers aside for a little while, and became lower than the angels. He lived by pure Faith, and it was the Father and the Holy Spirit that performed many miracles through that faith. Then fully understanding what he was going to go through, He willingly let them arrest Him, beat him, ridicule Him, and scourge Him. Then they nailed Him to the cross. He willingly went through this torturous death because he knew that mankind could never be good enough to reach heaven. So He chose to take on flesh and become the only sacrifice that was pure and holy enough that we could all be saved.
Every man made religion bases our salvation off of man earning his way into paradise. That is because man has a natural need to want to feel in control of his own destiny. That is one way you know that Christianity is the one true religion. It is the only one where God loves us so much, that He actually sacrificed Himself to save us!
We do not need to jump through hoops or run any gauntlet to reach heaven. We don't need to reach a stage of perfection in our own lives. Our salvation is strictly a gift from God. It is not by works of any kind, or by water baptism, or by repenting of sins as so many churches teach. It is a free gift from God to those who believe.
Romans 10:9-10 (NASB)
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
All you need to do is believe in your heart that Jesus is the Son of God, that He died on the cross and rose from the dead to save you! The moment you believe that in your heart, you will be saved!
If you think about it that is even logical in how it would work. For if you don't believe, then how can you possible accept a gift that you don't believe is real? So logically you would need to believe it for it to save you. And at OneGodLogic.com, I give so much reasoning and logic to how real God is. I explain all the true doctrines according to God's Truth. If you truly believe in your heart, then you will be saved. After that all you need to do is start learning more about God because He has big plans for you.