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Originally Posted by awareness
Those good feelings, while sensing the presence of God, releases a dose of Oxytocin in the brain. And that is addictive.
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I had a dramatic, life-changing, never-forgetting experience of salvation regeneration while all alone in my bedroom. It was like no "dose" I had ever had before, and I had been "dosed" up for a long time. I knew without a doubt that God Himself had visited me. No amount of torture or persuasion could ever convince me that my experience was not real, nor not God Himself. I also knew assuredly that this God had a name, Jesus Christ, whom I had heard about all my life growing up in a Catholic home.
I never asked for any feelings, neither did I have any time of heart-wrenching or soul-searching repentance. I just was reading this Book my new friend gave me, who also had given me a ride home from school, after my car broke down. It was the first time in my life that I was filled with inner joy and peace. Without being told a thing by any other person, I knew that I knew that I was no longer destined for hell. After that experience, I had to tell everyone about what happened, and what my Savior had done for me.
I really don't think that "
releases a dose of Oxytocin in the brain" can adequately describe all that happened to me. Perhaps I am wrong, maybe I just got a mega-dose, like a super-sized salvation.
P.S. About 8 months after this experience, after numerous trials, both good and bad, I went to a gospel meeting near my home at the Church in Cleveland. In that meeting, I had the distinct feeling that the "dose" I received in the meeting was identical to the "dose" I had initially received, which was all the confirmation needed to stay with that church for a very long time.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.