This is a serious question that you might have asked yourself. Whatever you listen or read from a “born again Christian” – can you trust him for what he says? The Christians call it “testimony”, a new born experience with Jesus, and others call it a bogus idea to convert others. “I was a sinner, now I’m born again.”, you might have heard such kind of statements already. Then there are stories of guys addicted to drugs, alcohol and cigarettes – one fine day they get a sense of security that they are born again.
What would you do, when your child comes to you to tell you that he has fever, and does not want to go to school? You may not take him to a doctor unless he is serious, and you lose a chance to prove – is he telling the truth. This is the case with many who claim to be born again Christians. You don’t ask these past drug addicts, do they have a clean certificate from a rehabilitation specialist – you simply fall prey to whatever they say. The Christians of this time are vulnerable to “testimony scams”. The reasons are many, primarily who does not fear to question the leaders, who claim God is on their side?
Now, have you every thought, you would be a victim by a non-Christian writer. I was following the stories on James Frey’s a million pieces memoir. I had interest in his memoir, to read his experiences, and how did he clean up his acts. Before I was going too far, I read what the Smoking Gun has to say about his experience. Was it more than “duped” as Oprah Winfrey felt?
I think James Frey has been habitually lying for long time. Did he do it intentionally? May be, may be not. The worst fear he had might be how he was going to sell his books if he had said he spent only 86 hours at the prison – if that’s not a good assumption, then he might have had a blackout of the whole incident. I would call his book a fiction, and a good writing. Leave the lie behind, the million dollar question to ask now is, is James Frey willing to change, and tell the story with an honest heart. I think he is a good writer, and his writings will resonate better among the readers if he tells his memoir in ultimate truth.
I used to believe the “so called” born again preachers, and their stories true, but not any more. They exaggerate their experience similar to the problem James Frey’s book readers had. Being a Christian sitting at a Church bench, listening to the “born again experience” of the new visiting Evangelist, you don’t have a choice but to simply trust whatever the Evangelist say. Can you fix these new born Evangelists?
