Evangelical born-again Christians are heavily into testifying at
evangelistic meetings concerning what Jesus has supposedly done in their lives
when they received him into their hearts as their saviour. They will say that their life meant
nothing to them in the past and they fell into all sorts of outrageous sins and
were miserable until they heard the gospel and gave their hearts to Jesus who
immediately transformed their attitudes and made them live changed holy lives.
Psychologically,
if a person is sick of a bad life and finds hope in a religion and wins the
enthusiasm to change and believe that there is a great pie in the sky for them,
you couldn’t expect to hear anything else. The person decided to change and used
religion as a crutch to do it and there is nothing miraculous about that. They pretend they are testifying to the
power of Jesus to save but they are really testifying about the power of their
will to change with the help of a crutch not Jesus. And if you made yourself feel that you
were going to have a great future in Heaven you would understandably be full of
joy.
If the saviour
they professed were Apollo or Osiris the same result
would happen. Adherents of the
mystery religions that existed at the time Christianity started reported
wonderful life changing experiences too and attributed them to their gods. Christian testimony calls them liars which
is astounding arrogance even though their Jesus did say he was the only way to
salvation. We are to believe the
testimony is true when coming from a Christian and not true when somebody
reports salvation through a pagan God.
Sectarianism at its worst. So the sins of the born again Christian
are just revamped and given a more respectable look. This is the marvellous change of life
then that they have! They
arrogantly pretend they know that Jesus is the only way and if you say they are
arrogant they say the Son of God made the claim so he should know. Then on the basis of blaming Jesus, they
say they are not being arrogant.
But they are for they are supporting his arrogance and making themselves
arrogant. When they say they are
sure they are right they are saying they know what they cannot know because
there could be some obscure saviour who has better evidence in his favour than
Jesus and you need to test and examine and weigh every religion in the world
before you would have the right to say what these Christians say. To pridefully
display “humility” and carry on as they do all smiles and being
popular because of Jesus is hardly evidence of a spiritually changed life.