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This 5 page paper discusses conversions to Christianity and St. Paul's comments on such conversions. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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here with ordinary people, not spectacular conversions such as those recounted in the Bible. Conversions generally can be said to take place when an individual cannot find the answers he
seeks within the scope of the religious tradition or intellectual beliefs he holds; failing to find what he needs within his current belief system, he goes elsewhere. At that point
the conversion may be said to begin. Malony writes that the process "begins with three predispositions: (1) an inclination to seek answers to the mysteries, tragedies, and the circumstances of
life through religion and (2) a sense of an enduring frustration that (3) has not been met through ones present faith" (Malony, 1998). The conversion then starts, it seems, from
a place of frustration or doubt. Some conversions have been set in motion when "seeking persons meet and interact with members of a religious group who have already found the
answer to the questions being asked" (Malony, 1998). Because they are already looking for answers, they are already "primed" to accept what the religious group tells them (Malony, 1998). An
example of the way this works follows: "Unification Church members in the San Francisco area met buses coming into the city and asked youth who looked lost and disoriented to
supper, a method based on the assumption they would be open to religious answers to their predicament" (Malony, 1998). At supper, there occurred "intense interaction between seekers and influences wherein
religious answers were provided within consistent social support" (Malony, 1998). Following this, the newcomers were encouraged to "engage in further study" with the group and cut off outside contacts (Malony,
1998). This sounds a lot like a cult, but at some point in the process, conversion occurred (Malony, 1998). (Malony could not pinpoint the exact moment.) It is possible that
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