Years later I was taught that water does not conduct electricity, it is only the impurities in water that allow conduction. Still later I learnt that water does conduct electricity, it is just that it does not conduct it very much. Truth is indeed complex, and in the Bible God has entrusted us with spiritual truth in all its complexity. Back to Contents Christianity is dying In 1430 one in 99 of the world s population were Christians. Real, life-changing conversions to Christianity are increasing at an amazing rate.
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In our century, Communism declared the death sentence upon Christianity. In so many parts of eastern Europe where the atheistic experiment was continually and violently enforced, Communism is in deep trouble and Christianity is going well. In Communist China, in the face of sometimes frightening Government attacks, people are committing themselves to a spiritual relationship with Jesus Christ at a rate averaging about 28,000 new converts a day. This is happening in the home of yin and yang and other anti-Christian ideas and practices admired by New Agers. In this nation steeped for thousands of years in non-Christian religion, then mercilessly brainwashed into atheism, so many millions of Chinese have turned their back on all that and become born again Christians that it is now thought the figure is a staggering 80 million Chinese.