Hi, my name is Juan (the nickname is just an artist nickname), I'm from Chile, Im 21 years old, almost 22. Im glad to be in a Christian space on the web because it's a space where I think I'll feel comfortable, away from sinful and trivial stuff around "regular" social media.
I admit I used to be an atheist for like 10 or 11 years or so. All changed on February or March of 2021, where I was experiencing a terrible anxiety disorder, my first reaction was to search for a plastic cross that I knew that for some reason, was in my night table drawer and I held it with all my strenght.
Some people would call it revelation, and I believe that. For my stubborn strictly rational mind there was no way that holding a "plastic cross" could calm my anxiety in that moment at a 100% level, I was at peace, but I was shocked.
Some of my favourite intelectuals at the time were getting revelations too, I was amazed because I felt strongly for the first time in my life that God existed.
A plus: I managed to get my girlfriend into Christianity, into the truth as well.
Well, almost a year from that, I'm still battling with sin, because I'm a terrible sinner I have to admit, but I know, Christ is helping me, step by step. I don't suffer from anxiety anymore, I have peace with that. Im reading the Bible, in a non orthodox way to be honest, I'm reading it cover to cover from the Old Testament to the New Testament (as a way of having a baseline for the NT), I'm in the book of Esdras right now, so almost 800 pages in the version of my Bible at least. I don't go to Chuch but I know God is telling me that it is time for it, I'm just having problems with it because there are many Chuch options, I don't know which one to validate, I think I'm more into protestantism but at the same time, I dont wan't to give to much importance to that, because Christ is one, and there is no conflict or confussion with him.
That was me, I hope I can talk to some of you, get you experiences, share mine, etc.
Is nice to meet you all, thank you for reading.
I admit I used to be an atheist for like 10 or 11 years or so. All changed on February or March of 2021, where I was experiencing a terrible anxiety disorder, my first reaction was to search for a plastic cross that I knew that for some reason, was in my night table drawer and I held it with all my strenght.
Some people would call it revelation, and I believe that. For my stubborn strictly rational mind there was no way that holding a "plastic cross" could calm my anxiety in that moment at a 100% level, I was at peace, but I was shocked.
Some of my favourite intelectuals at the time were getting revelations too, I was amazed because I felt strongly for the first time in my life that God existed.
A plus: I managed to get my girlfriend into Christianity, into the truth as well.
Well, almost a year from that, I'm still battling with sin, because I'm a terrible sinner I have to admit, but I know, Christ is helping me, step by step. I don't suffer from anxiety anymore, I have peace with that. Im reading the Bible, in a non orthodox way to be honest, I'm reading it cover to cover from the Old Testament to the New Testament (as a way of having a baseline for the NT), I'm in the book of Esdras right now, so almost 800 pages in the version of my Bible at least. I don't go to Chuch but I know God is telling me that it is time for it, I'm just having problems with it because there are many Chuch options, I don't know which one to validate, I think I'm more into protestantism but at the same time, I dont wan't to give to much importance to that, because Christ is one, and there is no conflict or confussion with him.
That was me, I hope I can talk to some of you, get you experiences, share mine, etc.
Is nice to meet you all, thank you for reading.
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