In My faraway corner of India, Christianity Is viewed as a ...

growing to be up in India, I never imagined i'd come to be following Jesus Christ. I belong to the Adi tribe, one of the most indigenous tribes in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, located in the remote, far northeast part of the nation. participants of my family practiced a traditional animistic religion that turned into familiar in our culture.

I regarded myself an omnist—someone who believes in all religions. On some degree, this even covered Christianity. before my conversion, I sometimes went to church features on the invitation of chums and that i would rejoice holidays like Christmas. I additionally frequently read a Gideons New testament Bible.

but the entire while, I kept idols of all the deities, together with the Hindu gods, Buddha, and Jesus Christ. and i visited lots of locations of worship: Hindu temples, a Buddhist monastery, and a gangging, the place Adi people pray to a god referred to as Donyi-Polo (in the Adi language, donyi means solar, and polo potential moon).

scared of Hell

In 2008, a chum invited me to be a part of an evangelistic early life camp geared up by the Jawaharlal Nehru Evangelical Union, a firm affiliated with the Union of Evangelical students of India. I can't do not forget the entire things I discovered at the camp, however I bear in mind asking one of the audio system no matter if a non-Christian can discover a spot in heaven. He answered that you can still best enter the kingdom of heaven with the aid of accepting Jesus Christ as one's very own Savior.

As someone who had read parts of the Bible earlier than, i was everyday with reports of God throwing all who didn't consider in him into hell on the last Day of Judgment. and that i become fearful of being tormented in a fiery location for all eternity. driven by means of a desire to get away that punishment, I determined to settle for Christ as my savior. In hindsight, ...

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