Husker Seeks

I have always been a bit of a pessimist by nature. It may even be genetic because my mom is the same way. I'm usually assuming the worst, an opposite to the optimism bias that humans tend to have. I guess that's part of why I found Jesus as I don't have hope in this world or human nature itself. Even before believing in the Gospel I thought humans were flawed creatures and we couldn't solve the problems of the world by ourselves. Right now we are moving toward a world where humans are more like robots, cogs in a technological machine that doesn't care about them. Humans care less and less about each other, or following any sort of morals. They will increasingly cheat, steal and throw their fellow man under the bus to get ahead in life. Once saved, always saved The Gospel I believed when I was originally converted was the "once saved, always saved" gospel, or OSAS. Some also refer to it as free grace theology. I thought it was beautiful that there was a goo...

In this post I will write how I came to Jesus and what happened to me as a baby Christian. I am not the best writer, so sorry for that in advance. First of all I was not born into a devout Christian family. My father left the church the same year I was born, my mother is still in the church but she has a more theist view of Christianity. She believes God is real, and respects Jesus, but does not believe He is the Son of God. Personally I wasn't taught much about God in my early years, but then in primary school I did get top marks in my religion course and I wanted to join the church because all my friends were in it. But that didn't happen, and I remained more of an agnostic for most of my life. Seeking the truth I have always been somewhat of a truth seeker, but I was doing it outside of religion. So I became aware of many problems that humanity has. For example our industrial civilization is consuming too many of our finite resources (oil, coal, gas, minerals etc) and pollut...