A person flips the pages of a Bible.

I stud­ied sci­en­tif­ic athe­ism and was taught that God does not exist. Still I felt like some real­i­ty was pur­pose­ly being hid­den from me. Lat­er I real­ized what it was.

I felt like some real­i­ty was pur­pose­ly being hid­den from me…

I used to be very far from God. I grad­u­at­ed from three uni­ver­si­ties includ­ing the Marx­ism-Lenin­ism Uni­ver­si­ty in my coun­try, where I stud­ied sci­en­tif­ic athe­ism and was taught that God does not exist. Still I felt like some real­i­ty was pur­pose­ly being hid­den from me. Lat­er I real­ized what it was. I was being kept away from The BIBLE! No mat­ter how bad­ly my gen­er­a­tion tried to ridicule the things writ­ten in it, we didn’t even have a chance to read it!

Only now, years after, I have come to real­ize that all our life we were being stolen from! We were robbed of the Great­est and the most Per­fect Book on earth! I’m so grate­ful to the Lord that He did draw me to Him­self and showed me the true way to sal­va­tion; He for­gave my sins and gave me the mean­ing of life as well as peace and assurance!

— Andrew


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One night I had a dream, and when I woke up…I prayed and asked God to show me what the truth real­ly was.

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I am Mohamed, and I want to thank God for what He did in my life while I was serv­ing a three-year prison sen­tence in a max­i­mum-secu­ri­ty prison.

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After her death I became a drunk­ard and I lost every­thing. Con­stant­ly on my mind was the ques­tion, If I die, where will I go?” I knew that one day I must face death like my wife. I did not have an answer to the question.

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I grew up with many prob­lems and much con­fu­sion. Alco­hol had been for years my way to escape from the prob­lems, but after the effects of alco­hol are gone, the prob­lems are still there.

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I was not sat­is­fied in my life and was search­ing for mean­ing and real­i­ty of our exis­tence in this world. I used to think, Why I am here and where will I go from here?

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I’m a teenage girl liv­ing in a small vil­lage. After I received some lit­er­a­ture… I start­ed for the first time in my life to think about God.

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