Thread: A question on Christian Scripture.

Martian Luther was an ordained priest who called himself a Christian but didn't have saving faith. The HS came to him one day when he was reading the book of Romans and the Christian reformation was soon to be born.

John Wesley was a young man who had grown up in a Christian family of ministers and had gone to church all of his life. He went to divinity school and became a pastor and a missionary but he didn't have salvation. The HS came to him while he was at a bible study meeting listening to someone read the introduction to Martian Luther's commentary on the book of Romans. Wesley later wrote that he felt his heart strangely warmed.

My encounter came when I was 37 and having found out that the AA program was based on the sermon on the mount, the book of James, and the 13th chapter of first Corinthians I decided to read the bible for the first time in my life to try and prove to myself whether it was valid or not. One night the book of Romans did the same thing for me that it had done for Martian Luther and the HS came to me.

The bluegrass singing group, the Stanley Brothers recorded a song called "I Can Tell You The Time." It says, "I can tell you the time, I can take you to the place, where the Lord saved me, on that wonderful day." For me it was like that. It is a supernatural experience that cannot be accurately or scientifically described.

Looking for an explanation of what Christianity is as if one were learning how to hone or shave with a straight razor ..... i.e. what is the micron size, or grit rating and how many laps on the finishing stone ... is not applicable to the journey IME. If you open your mind to it and just read the book, pray daily and ask God to come to you, one of these days you will, like Paul the apostle, be able to say that you've experienced "the peace of God that passeth all understanding."