hello in this video I'd like to share
with you how I came to the Lord my
conversion story my background was a
Christian background I was raised a
Roman catholic christian I went to
church on a weekly basis however at the
age of 20 I made my own choice to leave
the Church of Rome and I became a born
again Evangelical
Christian I believe Jesus was God of
course and I gave him my life and
accepted him as my Lord and Savior I
believed in all the Christian doctrines
the Trinity the Divinity of Jesus the
crucifixion of Jesus and the
resurrection of Jesus the original sin
and I believe that the Bible was 100%
the word of God I was also committed to
my faith I used to go to church on a
regular basis a non-denominational
church I used to be friends with a
pastor and fellowship with other
Evangelical born- again Christians I
used to watch TV shows where the gospel
was preached I used to also preach the
gospel to my
friends and there came a point in my
early 20s when I wanted to preach the
gospel to Muslims I come from a small
town in North America where there are no
Muslims uh in fact there were only white
people and Christians so what I wanted
to do was see the gospel spread to
Islamic Nations and basically I wanted
to make a starting point on the internet
preaching the gospel to Muslims so what
I did basically to find out a little bit
more about Islam was get some video
debates between Christian and Muslim
speakers and I got a bunch of debates um
by a Muslim speaker called Ahmed datat
uh he's a Muslim he was a Muslim from
South Africa and he was quite learned in
the Bible in the debates I started to
realize that ahmeda the Muslim speaker
was always winning and refuting the
Christian on every single
point um regarding the Bible D was
showing the Christians that it was not
the word of God he was showing us that
original sin is not teaching that comes
from the Bible and it does not come from
God he was showing us on all the major
issues the Christian doctrines were
false and not based on the Bible or
misinterpreted or they were simply
Fabrications corrupted or added to the
Bible by later
scribes so I came to see that the
Trinity Doctrine the Divinity of Jesus
Doctrine the death and Resurrection uh
doctrine of Christianity it was all on
thin ice it was very flimsy and weak
indeed and I was frustrated and angry
and I didn't I didn't like Ahmed in the
beginning I must say I was frustrated at
the Christian speakers because they had
PhD in Christian theology but they could
not refute Mr Ahmed didit who was
self-taught in The Bible and he of
course being a Muslim was using the
Bible to refute my own Christian
doctrines and he used to use the Quran
of course for you know just to back up
what he was
saying but I remembered a verse in the
Bible in the New Testament 1 Peter 3:15
which says always be ready to give an
explanation to anyone who asks for a
reason for your hope so I thought to
myself I better go away and study to
find out what D that is saying in my in
my attempt to basically refute
him I'm uh I'm a person who has a
skeptical mind I only believe in things
that I study and understand through
investigation so basically what I did
was I started studying the Christian
doct from an Islamic perspective I never
looked at the Bible before outside the
Christian Perspective D that was
confronting me with the decision here of
looking at the Bible from the Muslim
point of view so I started looking at
the Trinity the Divinity of Jesus the
crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus
the original sin doctrines and the
belief of the Bible being the word of
God I started seeing that datat was
absolutely correct and I as a Christian
was on the wrong path I was on the wrong
path to Salvation Christianity was not
the true religion of God this was a
great blow to me because I had been a
Christian for many many years I had been
a born again Christian for 6 years
almost and in general a Roman catholic
christian for 20 years so all of my
beliefs that I had been born and raised
with were turning upside down and this
was a great shock to me I didn't want to
become a Muslim at this point but I
needed to get to the bottom of the these
matters and find out what the truth was
so I also started studying Islam to find
out more about it because I didn't know
much about it so basically I found out
that Muslims believed in a God in one
God they had something called toed which
is pure monotheism they called God
Allah um they believed that Jesus was a
prophet and the Messiah sent to the
Jewish people which was a great relief
to me um they believe that salvation
comes from God's grace and mercy and you
get salvation as a Muslim by having
faith in that one true God and doing
Deeds as a result of that Faith uh they
also believed in a prophet who came
after Jesus called Muhammad and they
believed there in their scripture as the
word of God and their scripture is
called the
Quran so this was all new to me I knew
some things about Islam but not not not
in detail but when I found out as I said
that Muslims believe in Jesus that was a
great comfort to me because that was as
as you like a stepping stone or a link
between uh Christianity and
Islam and as I read the Quran more I
started to see that Muslims believe in
the same biblical prophets that I had
been born and raised to
believe so what I did was I started uh
we moved to the city we moved out of the
small town where I originally came from
and in the city where we moved there was
a mosque I went to I went to the mosque
knocked on the door and and ask could I
speak to somebody about Islam so there I
started to uh go to the mosque on a
weekly basis asking questions to the
Imam the Muslim leader there he gave me
more literature to read uh and the
biography of the Prophet Muhammad he
answered all my questions and he said to
me um I do not want you to become a
Muslim unless you're sure about the
faith and this was a great shock to me
as well because as a born- again
Christian I was used to the preaching of
the Christians and the Christians always
try to influence the person to become a
Christian they never say to you I don't
want you to become a Christian until you
you know go away study and pray about it
and then come back to me so this was a
great shock to me as well this man was
telling me that Islam is the true path
of of Salvation yet he was telling me
don't become a Muslim until you're sure
so that was new to me nobody was forcing
me to become a Muslim so
basically I saw in Islam all the truth
that I recognize in my
soul that appeal to me as being the the
the correct way of life that God would
want me to live I through Islam through
the Quran through Muslim belief was able
to understand Christianity in its right
context I was able to understand the
Bible through reading the
Quran and I said to myself at one point
I must become a Muslim I believe that
there is only one God I believe Jesus is
a prophet in fact in the Bible Jesus
never claimed to be God and he never
said I am God or worship me in the Quran
God was promising me me salvation in the
Bible God never uses the word promise
for
salvation uh in Islam salvation is made
easy to you which reflected God's mercy
to us because if God really loves you
he'll make salvation the path of
Salvation very easy for you in
Christianity the path of Salvation is
quite difficult you have to believe in
the unjust killing of an innocent man
who shed his blood for you your sins
which is of course not a reflection of
God's justice and of course you have to
believe as a Christian in the original
sin doctrine that God puts you into this
world with sin on your heart or on your
soul already before you even had a
chance to know right from wrong because
as a baby you cannot be a sinner and
Islam taught original forgiveness rather
than original sin Adam and Eve they
sinned but they ask God to uh forgive
them and they receive that forgiveness
so salvation to me was much more
appealing in the Islamic Doctrine rather
than the Christian doctrine it seemed
much more easier salvation is simply a
gift from God in Islamic teachings it
comes from God's mercy and Grace and you
you obtain that you obtain that by faith
in him and living a righteous life of
faith and Good Deeds resulting from that
Faith so to me Islam seemed to be more
Superior and
theologically um correct and appealing
to my soul in all the major issues and
to me me that was amazing as I have
already said I thought Islam was a
religion of Terror and murder and and an
alien Arab religion and I saw in the
Quran a message of peace and hope and
Tranquility salvation and kindness and
goodness and I recognize from the Bible
still there's some truth there and and
the Bible does in fact say that Satan
cannot be divided against himself uh if
he does his his uh house will fall or
something of that effect so basically I
said to myself these good teachings from
the Quran cannot come from
Satan so basically I made a decision to
accept Islam and I gave Allah my life
and accepted him as my Lord and Savior
and I believe that that day was the day
I chose the True Religion and that day I
became a true follower of Jesus as a
Muslim peace and blessings of Allah be
upon you