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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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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