Welcome!

Welcome to my blog! As the title suggests, I am of Guyanese origin and have a desire to know the things of God. In the way of introduction, it'd be best if I spoke briefly about myself:

When I was 11, I thought I had "accepted Jesus" into my heart. I remember distinctly believing with all of my heart that Christ was Lord and that He had died for my sins, and that I wanted to serve Him for the rest of my life. What followed shortly afterwards was a 5 year period of lashing out, disbelief, and confusion.

Growing up in a strictly religious household was both a blessing and a curse. The blessing behind it is obvious: I grew up knowing the things of God. The Bible, in all of it's authority and truth, was taught regularly and served as the basis for our lives. My father, being a pastor, made it a point to grow myself and my siblings up in the ways of God. But the curse, far from being associated with the blessing, is a testament to fallen human nature: in such a household, there was little to no room for shortcomings, failures, or freethinking. Therefore, it was difficult to express my doubts, concerns, and thoughts on various subjects concerning the Faith like, "Are Allah and Yahweh the same God, like the Muslims claim?" or "Does God really require us to believe in Jesus?" Couple doubt with the growing pains of life (puberty is not your friend) and one finds themselves in quite the predicament. Needless to say, I was a mess.

Fast forward to my junior year of high school, a particular unsavory event landed me in trouble with a teacher that I was on good terms with that almost lead to me getting expelled. Thankfully, that teacher showed me mercy and didn't alert any higher power to my wickedness. But something changed for me that weekend that really had me fed up with everything. I was tired of the way I was and I wanted something to be done about it. So in church that Sunday, I prayed something to the following effect: "God, I'm tired of this. I knew You way back when, but now I'm confused and lost. I need something from You right now, and if You'll answer me, I'll follow You forever." Well, God was faithful to that prayer. Less than 5 minutes, as a woman in our church was interceding on behalf of the church, says out loud for all the hear, "My son, why do you doubt me?"

This blog will eventually feature a discussion on continuationism and cessationism (spoiler: I'm a continuationist, though my particular view is a bit more nuanced than that), but whatever your stance on it is, I think we could all agree that this event wasn't mere coincidence. It is because of God's faithfulness to me that I in turn aim to comment on and deliver what I believe to be sound doctrine and exposition of the Word of God.

So, that's my testimony! Over the next several weeks, this blog will be an outlet for various topics. Soteriology and divine omniscience is one such topic that interests me greatly, and so I'll be doing several pieces to describe viewpoints pertaining to that to start this blog off. This will feature explanations of my personal viewpoint and why I hold to it over more popular viewpoints and some response pieces to articles that criticize my view.

With that said, stay tuned and God bless you!