When did you have your conversion experience?
Conversion experience, as in some big emotional, heart warming, harps playing, automatically led by God....? That's a fabrication. it's only existed since about 150 years ago. The Church from the time of the Apostles, to then, never considered it to be that way.
However I was 9ish.
What was your world-view prior to conversion (atheism, Roman Catholicism, mainstream Protestant, non-Christian religion, etc.)?
To be honest, I was 9ish. My world view was more play, less church.
Did you hear anything on radio, read anything or watch anything on TV or video that influenced your decision to convert?
To describe it, I DID feel that "chest tickling" and compulsion. I'll admit to that. You decide what it was. I was a pretty bright kid, so I wasn't without faculties and brain washed. But, no, nothing on the radio/tv/etc led to the decision, although I will admit to enjoying hearing billy Grahm preach. Now, with my beliefs today, people would pose a wth?
Did any people you know encourage you to convert?
There was absolutely no one to push me to it. Nor encourage me. In fact, they tried to hold me back, both parent, and pastor.
Did you have any experiences that led you to become born-again?
I hate the term born again, it's so abused today.
My mother had been dead 3 yearsish?, I had no conscious awareness of that influencing me though.
Were you eager to convert, or did you have some misgivings?
No, I was pretty convinced and comfortable with that calling.
After you converted, were your experiences as a Christian all positive, or did you have some negative experiences?
Istill have negative experiences. God isn't santa claus at a drive through window to make our lives easier. It's through the negatives we grow and mature.
Would you say that Christianity has improved the quality of life?
No clue, I've only the one life to witness. It's been a life, worse or better quality there is nothing to compare it to.
What did you gain, and did you have any losses?
The question is odd. I have no question what you are trying to learn here. I'm lost. My allowance didn't get any bigger.
Do you ever have doubts about fundamental Christian claims, or are you certain that it's all true?
I'm a heretic. And a self proclaimed Xian Agnostic. Which any honest "believer" would claim as well. My beliefs are very much against most fundamental Xians. But there is a big picture and details, and usually they are close among the variables. But, I'm distinctively a problem for them all. It's sorta lonely sometimes.
Do you share your conversion experience with others hoping they will follow your example?
What experience. It's a commitment. Being XIAN is a job not a title. Biblically speaking everyone I know, abuses the word Born Again and makes a claim they dn't YET live up to, and may not if they think they are there.