Before continuing with my essays on the truth it seemed good to me and the Holy Spirit that I tell you my own personal testimony concerning it.  Over thirty years ago, when I was a youth of but 20 years of age, I dropped out of my fourth year of college.  I had been a straight “A” student in high school, graduated 10th in a class of 300, and was president of National Honor Society.  I began college in the “Pre-med” program, changed majors during my first year to chemistry, and then at the end of my second year I changed majors again, this time to math.  I made good grades in college, making mainly A’s and B’s in math and science.  Then, I decided that partying was more important, so I dropped out of school so that studying would not interfere with that!

I turned 21 soon after this and worked part time at a music store.  You can imagine what I did with my time off.  But, one day during lunch break I walked across the street to the book store.  I  had been reading Krishnamurti and, as a math major, was naturally interested in philosophy.  I browsed the philosophy section and noticed a book called The New English Bible.  I said to myself, “I’ve always heard that the truth is in this book.  Why don’t I just buy this book and read it and see if it is?”  So, I bought it and began to read it.

I began reading the New Testament right away.  Then at night I would read the Old Testament.  Finally, after about three months, I had read the whole New Testament twice and was reading it for a third time.  At the same time I was up to Deuteronomy in the Old Testament.  One night I was reading Deuteronomy and suddenly I noticed that the “voice” of the person who wrote Deuteronomy was the same as the “voice” of the person who wrote what I had been reading in the New Testament earlier that day.   If you have read many books by, say, C.S. Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkien you will know what I mean.  You begin to know their style and you can’t miss it.  So it was with me this night while reading the Bible.  I suddenly knew that the same “person” had written both the Old and the New Testaments. 

But, I also knew the the two testaments were written hundreds of years apart.  So, as I considered that the same person wrote both testaments, I said to myself, “This is impossible, unless God wrote the Bible.”

Then the voice of God literally spoke to me and said, “That’s right, …, and I want you to teach my Word.”  And I responded, “If this is God’s Word, then I had better do what it says.”  I knew that I had found THE TRUTH!   My life was forever changed….