I read the recent postings today from the members within this
topic and I really don’t know what to say…maybe its best we speak
well about the objective without getting ourselves angry ya….well
at least don’t get irritated or emotional. Like Jesus said, “Treat
others like the way you want them to treat you.”
Ok lets do this….for now since I’m online I would like to speak
to BrolnChrist. BrolnChrist hope you are available. Others I hope
you listen and don’t speak until its time. Lets talk BrolnChrist
and I give you my word I won’t dishonour your belief. I like to be
honest with you and likewise I hope you too can be honest with
me…with that hopefully we get to know where we stand and where we
go from here. I start first…
I’m 49 years old. My wife is a Catholic and we have a civil
marraige done in Singapore. I’m born in Singapore, in a Muslim
family and my name is a Muslim name. Both my late parents had gone
for the Muslim pilgrimage twice. I have siblings who is a Christian
and the other a Hindu. The rest of my siblings are still Muslims.
As for myself, though I have a Muslim name but I see myself a non
Muslim. I’m a noncomformist to any religion. I came to realize
about myself 20 years ago while I was in Bali. I came across a
German man who converted to Islam with an Indonesian Muslim wife. I
asked him whether he could read the Qur’an in Arabic and he said
no. He said he read the Qur’an in German or English. He said that
the most important thing is that Allah/God wants him to understand
the messages within the Qur’an. That statement really opened my
eyes and I agreed with him totally. From that day onward I read the
Qur’an in English, Malay or Bahasa Indonesia…..and began my soul
searching journey to know about God. I came to realize that man has
no faith unless he has a faith that lies within his heart. That
faith will make him see things different about life, death and
God.
What I really like to know from you is whether you have
experience such incredible feeling about yourself in the past until
you spend time seeking for Him and the Truth? I hope you could let
us know here truly without any fear. You can ask me question I
really don’t mind.
Thanks for sharing. I believe that those who have found
Truth no longer need to seek for it. But just when you thought you
"found" the Truth you realised the truth which Paul wrote in
Ephesians 1:4 that
"Even before
he made the world, God loved us and chose us in
Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in
advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself
through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him
great pleasure."
It's a paradox and a glorious truth. I was privileged to have
"found" God when I was still a kid and other than parental
objections I would say there's no Damascus experience for me to
talk about.
