Do you have to know when you became a Christian?

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Do you have to know the date and time when you became a Christian? Frequently preachers claim that you must know a time and a place when you accepted the

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Lord as your Savior or became a Christian. The average hearer who hears this sometimes thinks, if I do not know this time or place when

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I accepted Jesus as my Savior, then I must not be a Christian. However, such a conclusion is actually false.

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You really do not have to know the time and the place. It is definitely advisable to know when and where you trusted

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Christ as your Savior for personal testimony reasons. However, the main point of the Gospel message is that we believe in Christ, as Acts 16 .31

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says, and not trust our works, found in Romans 4 .5 and Ephesians 2 .8

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.9. The Bible does not say, except you know the time and place of your conversion, you cannot enter the kingdom of God.

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Rather, it says that except a man be born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That's found in John 3 .3 -5.

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And also the same concept is held in John 1 .12 -13. Interestingly, John 1 .12

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-13 says that you are born not of the will of the flesh, not of the will of man, but you are born of God.

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That references to those who received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believed on His name.

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So you are born again in verses 12 -13 by believing, by receiving Jesus as your

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Savior. So we are not to trust a date, a time, a method, or anything else, but Christ alone.

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Whenever we believe, we are sealed with the Holy Spirit. This is what it says in Ephesians 1 .13.

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In Him you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation, having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the

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Holy Spirit of promise. If a person does not know the time or date of when he or she became a

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Christian, it is irrelevant. The key question is, are you trusting in Christ alone for your salvation now?