Accepting Christ as personal savior can actually be a way of finding self-acceptance. You are taught that salvation means that you are forgiven, clean, and acceptable to God. This external stamp of approval enables you to approve of yourself. Clearly this has an enormous payoff. The effect can be life changing. From a psychological point of view, the impact is due to self-acceptance, which is often hard to achieve in life. For the born again Christian, the change is attributed to the conversion experience.
