I read a lot. I had a religious grandmother who tried to convert me to Christianity and explain its most important principles. She loved me very much and had a great love for all of us. At the time, I didn’t understand that love was the most important thing in Christianity. I’ll probably mention that in more detail later. At that time, though, I was still a small child and didn’t care what it was about. The only thing I learned from my grandmother’s stories was that angels protect the human soul. I couldn’t take it anymore.

As I grew up, I became interested in mysteries and aliens. I was also interested in resurrection because it was another mystery. I was also fascinated by aliens because I had always longed for something beyond my understanding. However, later on, they became a stumbling block for me.

So, I started reading Däniken’s books. I was learning about history, which was not part of the standard primary school curriculum. It turned out that this was a good thing. I also learned that life on Earth could have been created. Then something happened that changed the direction of my search for truth. Däniken claimed that a NASA engineer had built a spaceship according to the prophecy of Ezekiel in the Bible. This was a huge sensation, but not for the reason you might think: the spaceship in question did not fly.

As a budding scientist, I decided to examine it because, at the time, I had inherited the Bible from my grandmother. She is now waiting for God to raise her from the dead out of His love and grace, mainly because, as a Christian and a believer, she has accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior. After reading Ezekiel’s prophecy, I decided to read the Bible from the beginning, starting with the earliest part of history: creation. I immediately realized that some human perceptions of God were incorrect. Still, I also learned that God could not be an alien, as I had previously thought, because God had created everything. My perception of God as cruel also emerged because, until then, I had only read the Old Testament. At that time, I had not yet read the parts of the Old Testament in which the Lord shows mercy. However, I told myself that God was just because they had sinned, so the punishment was justified. I also did not understand at that time that the purpose of the punishment was to make them turn from their evil ways and follow God, not for God to destroy them.

Sometimes I also met the Witnesses, and, full of joy from the beautiful painted pictures and richly illustrated books they gave me for free, I decided to visit and talk about God, that spaceship in the Bible, the origin of the universe, and my controversial questions. Finally

As I gradually finished reading the Old Testament and came to the New Testament, I came to believe that I had wronged God, that I had considered Him too strict.

How did I come to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior? God showed me several mercies that revealed my path, and I realized that the circumstances I could not influence were truly God’s mercy, despite my own actions. As I write this, I am reminded of God’s love for me. I am not writing this to make you envious of the fact that God loves me; I am telling you the truth that God loves you, too, so there is nothing to envy me for.

• The first such mercy was the interplay of life circumstances (which we will all have different). First, I was interested in various mysteries, aliens, and spaceships; the books of Däniken; and finally, the prophecy of Ezekiel, in which, according to Däniken, there was supposedly a description of a spaceship. So I decided to read the prophecy to verify, as a true scientist, whether it was so or not. In other words, I had a lot of free time, which I tried to fill with the computer, reading science fiction literature, and the topic of mimicking earthlings. And so I started reading the Bible to learn not only about interesting historical events, but also to find a solution to the problem of aliens, spaceships, and God’s creation in the Bible. One of the mysteries that I was also interested in was the resurrection of man. The pharaohs in Egypt believed in their eventual resurrection, prompting them to mummify themselves. I also learned, as I read the Old Testament, that even some Jews, God’s prophets, resurrected people with God’s help. This was amazing, previously unheard of, and completely unknown to them. For example, Elijah and Moses performed many “miracles” that I, as a scientist, was unable to explain, and even today, I have certain problems explaining them; I classify them as God’s miracles because I cannot explain them physically. I also discovered that after the thicker Old Testament, there is another thinner part in the Bible, the New Testament, about Jesus Christ. Since I had enough time, mysteries interested me, and, besides, the personality of Jesus Christ was obscured for me by many mysteries, legends, and myths, I also decided to read the New Testament to look for answers to my various questions there as well. Of course, this raised many more questions than it brought answers.

• At least I began to doubt that the atheistic view is just an attempt to avoid dealing with the problems associated with accepting God and that those concerned would rather say that God does not exist so that they do not have to deal with these problems, or because atheism considers man to be the highest being and therefore also God, which seemed to me to be the greatest degree of impudence and thoughtlessness. I also resented the fact that I grew up under communism and was not given any other option than evolution, which did not need God. But it must be emphasized now, as I write this, that Christianity is not a refutation of evolution but rather a different view of God’s creation and the origin of life, and therefore of evolution. Christianity does not deny evolution, but at that time, evolution and creation seemed to me to be two opposing hypotheses, two theories. But in reality, they are not opposing each other. I will write more about this in another paragraph, where God again had mercy on me so that I could understand it correctly.

• That he had mercy on me, even though I was a sinner who wanted nothing to do with God. That I was a computer maniac, a slave to computer games, shooting at everything that moved, and that I spent a lot of time unnecessarily, and did not fully enjoy the time given to me. I could not gain real friendship because I helped the people around me a little and considered them more like enemies than friends. Even now, I try to be a better friend and find more time for friendship. I was also not willing to accept that others might have problems trusting others because they consider other people enemies. But that is a bad situation, as it involves considering each other as enemies and not trusting one another. If things continue like this, what hope will people have? Some will perhaps seek it in materialism, buying as many safes, window bars, security doors, security devices, etc., etc., others will take drugs to “escape” in their thinking from this world, which sometimes begins to be a real hell, others will prefer to become independent and prefer to live alone, far from others, with animals, on walks, to relax from others. Now it occurs to me that humanity is experiencing a terrible time of darkness, a terrible fall, like during the original sin of Adam and Eve, when the gap between God and man widened. Into this extremely complex life situation comes another mercy of God…

• God gave me an understanding of His Word in the Bible. He helped me understand what I read, at least in some parts that are important to me. I prayed many times before that so that I too could understand the Bible. So I also recognized why Christianity is extremely important today: God’s love. God’s love will help solve all the problems I wrote about above. I asked myself the question, why do so many people become Christians?” Why are there so many commandments, or is there something much greater and more important, a single law from which the other commandments would be derived and from which they would result? I searched, and I found. The main meaning of Christianity, besides knowing God, is love, and this is often more important than knowing God himself. I read the commandments: “You shall love the Lord … your God …”, “love your neighbor as yourself” (again love or is it just a coincidence?), “… by this you will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (again love …), also three times Jesus Christ asked Peter if he loved him, three times he answered in the affirmative, then in that Bible, I think, they are to take care of the poor, give bread to the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, take care of orphans and widows and not only them, have love for all people who need our help. I remembered that “love is the fulfillment of the law, … love does no harm to anyone”. I also learned (what other religions hid from me) that God loves me, too, and this is what helped me choose Christianity. So if I am to have a God, then at least one who loves me, who has encouraged me a lot, and who will help me stand and encourage me in the most difficult trials of life. So here I almost suspected that Jesus Christ could really be my savior. But I did not accept him as Lord because I still had the Lord, whom I also had to obey, and because I also had to change my life drastically. Then it was probably time for another God’s mercy…

• And now another grace of God – mercy regarding the knowledge of evolution and creation, that they do not actually stand against each other as alternative (opposite) hypotheses, but that correct evolution is just a different view of God’s creation. So, to explain it. I came up with (maybe God told me, maybe not, judge for yourself…) such a small comparison. According to the Bible, man was created from the dust of the earth; evolutionary theory claims that man evolved from a monkey. These two statements are not refuted!!! I will show an example on computers, as I am a computer enthusiast. I will give an analogy about the historical emergence of computers. Historically, there were some 4-bit computers, and computer experts decided to create an 8-bit computer from a 4-bit one because 4-bit ones stopped being enough at some point. So if a 4-bit computer is like a protozoa, then 8-bit computers could be like … (fill in the blanks yourself). But here, the development of computers began to branch: different types from different manufacturers were created, and further branching occurred, similar to the evolution of animals and plants. So today we have Pentium in PC, Apple, … Some branches stopped growing, and development stopped here. Similarly, in evolution, development also stopped in certain species. And now, why don’t evolution and creation stand against each other as alternative hypotheses? I came up with this joke: A person who does not know the history of computers asks: Did the Pentium evolve from the XT, or was it created from silicon? A supporter of evolution will say that, over a sufficiently long period of time, and thanks to certain coincidences that helped improve it, the Pentium really evolved from the XT. A person who supports creation would answer here that man created the computer, various Pentiums from silicon (as God created man from dust), and that man also created various types of computers (just as God created various animals and plants). It is useless to discuss which of the two is right about the origin of life; everyone looks at the origin of computers and also life from a different perspective, but both are basically right. Only the one who supports evolution can claim that there is no God who did it all. Just as that person should not say that the Pentium evolved from the XT without human intervention!!! Of course, he can talk about coincidence, because many scientific discoveries and improvements in computers were certainly the result of necessary coincidence, for example, a random physical discovery in a new technology that helped push the development of computers a step forward. He can also claim that the Pentium evolved from the XT over a sufficiently long time, and this does not disprove that the designer and creator of computers is man. Also, the evolution of life on Earth does not disprove God, unless he explicitly claims that God does not exist. So this also convinced me that creation and evolution are not actually opposed to each other; they are just different views on the historical development of life. Now, one more mercy from God that I received, so that I could accept Jesus Christ as Lord.

• God did not appear to me as a strict, evil, but as a gentle, kind, wise friend, whose advice to listen to is not a burden for me, but a joy, because it is also wise and reasonable for me. Then I remembered the comparison of two Lords, or rather rulers: a wise, calm, and just ruler is loved by the people and popular, but a greedy, evil ruler can never find much popularity with the people.

And what can I tell you? We all have a different path; some don’t even want to go to God yet, or are hesitant to go. We all walk a different path; we all come from somewhere else. We will each face different problems on our path and, in all honesty, have to overcome different obstacles. I wrote to you about the obstacles that prevented me from accepting Jesus Christ as my Savior and Lord.

At first, I felt bitter and afraid that my life would change significantly, requiring me to make drastic changes in a short time. That is why I was afraid of acceptance and hesitated. Maybe I was like other people who prefer not to hear about religion because they would have to change their lives. I was also concerned about that, and I am writing this to be honest. The change in question was supposed to take place, as I mistakenly believed, at baptism, or rebirth, a resurrection into a new life. And now I am supposed to be better in everything, not to sin, etc., etc. I was afraid of such a rapid change, and that is why, like other people, I did not even want to hear about baptism. But this was a mistake; it was probably not yet time for me to be baptized. “Okay then, I’ll wait; maybe it will get better later. I’ll hope in God that He will advise me and help me here too…” So I waited, believing that everything would happen in such a way that I would later be able to accept God. Until then, I had only accepted Jesus Christ as my savior, but I didn’t really listen to Him as Lord.

Only now has God shown himself to me as a gentle and kind Lord who is still tolerant towards me. I am not writing this to make you envy me, but I am telling you that God is certainly gentle and kind to you, too, and that He loves you, too, and that you, too, can expect His grace and mercy at any moment. This is what prompted me to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. I was baptized at the KS Prague.

I hope that my testimony will be of some benefit to you as well.