Why I am a Christian: The briefest and most correct testimony

Henry, a Christian – How did you come to Christ? ODJ – Don’t you know? Henry – What do you mean? ODJ – “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit”…

bography

March 2, 2019

1 minute

The wind blows….

Henry, a Christian – How did you come to Christ?
ODJ – Don’t you know?
Henry – What do you mean?
ODJ – “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit” (Jesus in John 3).

Update 15 February 2024.

Since the many years I wrote this post, I’ve learnt much. How we come to Christ involves not only the vertical level (Holy Spirit) but also the horizonal level in coming to Christ.

What is more:

Psalm 139:16 – “… all the days ordained for me were written in your book.” Gloriously perplexing.

The best thinking on the relationship of the vertical (God’s decree) and human will – in my book – comes from Colin (no surname) in his podcast Consistent Calvinism. https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fdeow9bq0xqvbj.cloudfront.net%2Fimage-logo%2F10492711%2FCC8_resizezdjpg_ai32yu.jpg&tbnid=MxgKGa1aO4uu0M&vet=12ahUKEwjX-7a6r6-EAxXuQ6QEHShCDKsQMygAegQIARBG..i&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fconsistentcalvinism.podbean.com%2F&docid=RQQmzd-SaTvUYM&w=1400&h=1400&q=consistent%20calvinism&client=ms-android-samsung&ved=2ahUKEwjX-7a6r6-EAxXuQ6QEHShCDKsQMygAegQIARBG

I regularly listen to it. None my favourite Calvinists such as Matt Slick and the inimitable James White come near to Colin. Very important: he bases his reasonings on the Bible. It’s a pity he is not more well known.

6 responses to “Why I am a Christian: The briefest and most correct testimony”

SLIMJIM

March 2, 2019 at 8:54 pm

If I remember you have written quite lengthy on your salvation?

Reply
1. bography
  
  March 3, 2019 at 9:19 am
  
  Hi SJ. Troo. It was time for the sum up. What do you think of it?
  
  Reply
  1. SLIMJIM
    
    March 3, 2019 at 9:45 am
    
    Yes it summarized the truth
    
    Reply
GREED PACK-11713

May 3, 2020 at 7:25 am

The author should know: Maintain your integrity. Reality in calvinism and worst lewis the human race for example blood sacrifice and the wind blows wherever it is because they may need psychology make to relate to believe that these dreams and the…
My happening solvent invective at my site presents this more clearly

Reply
1. bography
  
  February 16, 2024 at 7:23 am
  
  Sorry, I can’t get beyond the gibberish.
  
  Reply
bography

February 16, 2024 at 7:33 am

I published this post many years ago. Haven’t published anything for many years. I wrote an
update to this post.

Reply

Author

Written by

bography

I am a Jew. I live in South Africa. My parents immigrated to South Africa from the Russian Empire when they were children in the early 1900s. I converted to Roman Catholicism at university. I’m now of the Reformed Christian faith. (You’re, you’re, you’re not a Calvinist are you? No I’m a monergist, that is, I had zlich to do with my regeneration). I studied philosophy, French and linguistics, and taught at schools and universities. My main interests are the Jews (of course) and Reformed theology and how the latter relates to Judaism and Roman Catholicism. My favourite writer is Martyn Lloyd Jones. I also learned a great deal from Art Katz, Lewis Johnson and Paris Reidhead. My theology has been mostly influenced by Martyn Lloyd Jones, S Lewis Johnson and John Macarthur.