Nick, your post is a very personal one, and I hope you don't mind discussing your past and present views on salvation. I am curious about whether your initial experience of deciding to receive Christ actually counts in your mind as the moment you were saved. If not, is there another moment, and does the moment you described very much like an epiphany concerning Romans 9 and Ephesians 1 relate in some way to the moment you were saved? I seem to think from your testimony that you were saved earlier, but gained some additional wisdom later on that answered questions to some difficult scriptures?

Thanks,
Mike