Something happens when a person becomes a Christian. Everything is becoming different in contrast to the previous life. You see things differently, you hear people talk differently, their attitude towards you is different, each and every old presupposition falls to the ground...
It is like getting a completely new pair of eyes, ones that are precious, ones that show you the world as it is, but at the same time show you God as He is, the latter not normally seen at all without those glasses.
Andrew Fuller writes (and here John Piper talks about Fuller):
Whatever necessity there may be for a change of heart in order [for one to believe], it is neither necessary nor possible that the party should be conscious of it till he has believed. It is necessary that the eyes of a blind man should be opened before he can see; but it is neither necessary nor possible for him to know that his eyes are open till he does see.
Christian perspective. A touchy area, not very popular with *freedom lovers*. Do not ever abandon it, though. This is the only foundation of your life, and the only absolute truth. The only one that lets you see properly.
2Ti 4:1-4
(1) I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
(2) preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
(3) For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
(4) and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
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It is like being unplugged, transplanted, refurbish, restored, rewired, redone, reborn, remade. Given completely new inner life and given a glimpse of eternal life.
"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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