Malredar† 0 Report post Posted March 8, 2010 Hello! As the title states, my username is Malredar. I'm seventeen years old and I live in England. To any who may wish to know, my hobbies are programming (though I have yet to become good at it), juggling, and socialising with people on the internet (something I am not good at in real life). As requested on #christianfurs in the IRC, here is a Testimony: Before I came to Christ, I was depressed. I had been ever since I was twelve because my parents were arguing (my mother has a persecution complex and my father is an adulterer and general slob/clutz). Getting immature remarks from an immature older sister weren't helpful either, and the whole way I felt about it proceeded to the point where I contemplated suicide daily. Mainly, the attempts that I did make consisted of hanging and running away from home to either starve to death or get killed by something. I remember my first running away: It was dark, being the middle of the night. The ground was wet from where it had rained during the day. I wasn't really bothered about what I was wearing because for all I hoped I would be dead anyway. Eventually the police came and took me home (I hadn't done anything, so they didn't book me). Other things that fostered my death-wish were the general seeming pointlessness of life and how I was failing at life. I felt as if I was an embarrassment to everybody and that I would be better off dead. About six months later, I was talking to a friend of mine on the internet. He was Apostlic. I pretty much never listened to anything that he said because he was a very soppy (and foolish) individual. The kind who claims to be a Christian but then pokes her girlfriend's breast soon afterward. I told him that I would be going downstairs to get something to eat so I signed myself as 'away' on MSN Messenger. When I got down, I felt something a bit strange. It was this peculiar urge to read the Bible. I shrugged it off as wanting to know about what I considered then to be an enslavement program masquerading as a belief system. So I took a book of Bible stories upstairs and hid it (my family was used to me being the family anti-Christ). As I read the stories of the Babbling Tongues and Caine killing Abel, I felt something resonating. What was in this book of Bible stories just struck a chord and I had a pretty good feeling that there was a God. So I decided to experiment. I prayed to God, seeing as if there wasn't a God, no harm would have been done. As I prayed, I felt a cooling sensation wash down my body. I just knew that it was God. So I decided to become a Christian. So here I am. Born again in the Christian faith. I am non-denominational. 1 poleposition16 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Voltomere 0 Report post Posted March 8, 2010 Welcome to CF Malredar! I really appreciate you sharing your story. *hugs* I am really happy you are here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spheniscine† 0 Report post Posted March 8, 2010 Welcome to CF! ^.^ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoJoJoshua† 0 Report post Posted March 8, 2010 Very glad you have come here. Hope we can make you feel that you made the right decision coming here (which you have!) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Direlda† 0 Report post Posted March 8, 2010 Welcome to our community. /me bows in greeting. Thank you for sharing that with us. Btw, you are welcome to join in our Bible study. 8pm GMT on Saturdays through skype (I'm direlda42, if you're interested in joining - just make sure to mention this forum or the irc channel). This coming Saturday we're finishing up with Ecclesiastes by talking about it as a whole. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flechmen 0 Report post Posted March 8, 2010 Welcome, a bit of a different intro Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Wolfin Report post Posted March 8, 2010 /me hugs tightly Welcome! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DeltaK9 0 Report post Posted March 8, 2010 Ohai! Neat intro thar. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chess123mate† 0 Report post Posted March 8, 2010 Welcome Malredar! May you grow in The Faith and enjoy the forums! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yuumichi† 0 Report post Posted March 8, 2010 Howzit brah!!!!! Or... bradess rather. Want a pineapple? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kail† 0 Report post Posted March 9, 2010 that's a beautiful testimony, man. Welcome to CF! I should write a song about that... "resonating". That sounds wicked awesome! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
poleposition16† 0 Report post Posted June 25, 2013 what a story! God in my life has almost always been slow and steady, but when he decides to get the job done he wastes no time. My dad has lost the battle against porn. My Mother is a strong christian woman who is both a realist and positive. I stuck closer to my mother- but was a little to careless in play- got hooked on furry, flew sideways off the track and landed here. welcome-two years after the fact. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lu-Man† 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2013 Now that is a dramatic entrance! Welcome! I'm Lu-Man. I attempt to write and post here now and again. I hope you grow in faith and enjoy it here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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Oren_Otter† 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2013 Welcome, Malredar. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
