Testimony:
I am Donald McIntyre, a member of Liberty Church since October 2022.
I used to be born in Costa Rica and raised in Argentina. These are Catholic nations, so I used to be raised Catholic, went to the catechism and went by all of the rituals resembling baptism at beginning, first communion, affirmation, and so forth.
However I used to be all the time a disbelieving atheist. All my life I’ve believed in purpose and science to find the reality. I’ve all the time actively sought the reality by studying books and scientific articles and always in search of data to see if I may keep on the sting of information. To me it was only a matter of time and analysis till man figured issues out.
Since roughly 2016, I’ve been a part of an e-mail group with mates who’re scientists and work within the blockchain business (I work within the blockchain business). Though I’m not a scientist, I’m an lively member of this group and we focus on every little thing associated to physics, chemistry, biology, historical past, anthropology, pc science, faith, and so forth. In a way, we’re all always looking for the reality. .
One of many members of the group is essentially the most rigorous when it comes to scientific methodology, however on the identical time he’s a really sturdy Christian. This was a contradiction in my thoughts, as for me being somebody who believes in science and purpose means rejecting faith and any thought of ’God’ or the supernatural. To me all this stuff have been myths.
When the COVID disaster broke out in 2020, we have been very concerned within the group looking for out the reality in regards to the virus and its doable penalties. In March 2020, we have been alarmed by the prospects and adopted authorities measures. However after just some weeks of analysis and situation modeling, we had already realized that it was a standard chilly, that every one authorities measures have been ineffective, that the individuals who wanted safety have been solely the aged, that society needed to stay open, and all that was an train in management and coercion by governments and worldwide businesses. In fact, the riots that broke out on the time and the conflicting orders to politically privileged and deprived teams have been particularly maddening.
My religion in ‘science’ and ‘purpose’ collapsed. I may now see the collusion between business, academia and authorities. And the final assault on Western tradition.
From that second on, I turned a skeptical individual, conscious of how we had all been manipulated for thus lengthy.
In the meantime, whereas cooped up in my home, we began debating in our e-mail group why some cultures have been extra profitable than others. To me, America has all the time been essentially the most superb and profitable nation in human historical past.
Nevertheless, our evaluation and analysis did not give us many solutions, so I began to dig deeper into the query “Why is America so profitable?”
I began peeling the layers. Finding out American historical past, its nationwide group, the Structure, its origins, cultural influences, its founding, and so forth. However I’ve not discovered any “secret sauce”.
In some unspecified time in the future I spotted that underneath the Structure lay frequent regulation, and that frequent regulation was based mostly on the Bible. I additionally knew from earlier historic analysis that America was colonized largely by Protestant Christians who escaped non secular oppression in Britain and Europe.
So with the concept that Christianity was the supply of this advantage and greatness of America, I started to review Christianity. First I studied the lifetime of Jesus from an atheist historic perspective. Then I studied the historical past of the Church and the construction of the Bible. Then I studied the lives of Peter and Paul. Nevertheless, I’ve not discovered the supply or what would make America so totally different and distinctive. So at this level I needed to begin studying the Bible to see if I discovered something or any reply.
As a result of I had learn in line with “students” that the E book of Mark was the primary to be written chronologically, I seemed for and located a video of an English actor studying the E book of Mark in St. Paul’s Cathedral and starting to take heed to it. After I completed listening, I began watching a video of the guide of Matthew learn by the identical actor. This was roughly in August 2022. I used to be 54 years outdated.
I feel I used to be solely originally of the guide of Matthew video when at some point in August 2022 I stated, “God?” I used to be alone in my house. This was the second I used to be born once more once I lastly discovered the reality.
Due to this fact, I can affirm that John 3:3 is true:
Jesus answered and stated to him, “Really I say to you, except one is born once more, he can not see the dominion of God.”
