Christianity, my journey.

Boy is this off topic, but I felt a need to share it.
I was raised a Catholic but my adolescent "intellectual self" rejected the teachings of the Bible as bogus. Eventually I came to realize that our world functioned way too symbiotically to be just happenstance and the Darwinest approach required much more blind faith than the idea of God making every thing mesh and working together.
Anyway, I'm pretty much a numbers and mechanical guy and the bible makes more sense than anything else.
 It still seems strange that we are forgiven of all our sins through Christ's crucification as long as we make a good honest effort to repent , but I'll take it!

I was not Catholic but that's pretty much how I solidified my faith. There's no way this world could be an accident. The things that cinched it was the intricate and logical way the human body works, all the prophecies have come true or in the process of coming true and many events that happened to me throughout my life at just the right time over decades and were connected that could not have been anything but GOD's hand at work.

Terry

Oh boy, the prophecies! There are things written back then that were truly unimaginable at the time such as man going to and fro about the earth and the fire from the sky that melts the flesh from the body (nuclear bombs comes to mind). We may not see Christ's return in our lifetime but all the pieces are in place. We are told that we won't know the hour and the day, but we should be watchful for the signs. He appears to be coming soon.
There are different schools of thought regarding whether we'll be raptured before or after the great tribulation but as near as I can tell, if we're alive we'll have to endure the miseries before we're lifted up to join Jesus. No matter which way it happens the unpleasantness of the tribulation will be akin to a mosquito bite when we get to heaven.