Belivers Will you share your testimony on how you came to believe and why?

Question

take your time in responding to this question. answer in a way the reader and myself can understand the why, how, when...don't use three letter answers. If you have always been a believer there was a moment when you made that choice. So no one can say they were raised to believe since its a personal relationship commitment.

Answer 1

I believe there is no god. I came to this conclusion both slowly AND in an epiphany. Nearly every day something happens that confirms my knowledge.

Answer 2

I try to be very logical. So when I was 18 years old, I read a lot of history books on religion. I came to the conclusion that either the stories in the religious experience were just lies or they were true. It seems more reasonable to believe they are true, as, what did the majority of individuals gain from telling lies? (Most of them were killed and persecuted, not achieved any power over people.) So, starting with that premise, I studied language to read the Bible better. After some time, I was able to match up the majority of my questions about the world with doctrine that I understood from religion. Although I don't know a lot and have many questions still, I have the basis to understand that in time, all my questions will be answered.
Through this experience, I have had many opportunities to feel the presence of God in my life. I have felt the influence of the Holy Ghost and have come to know that God exists and loves each of us.

Answer 3

While I can think of a bunch of experiences and moments in my life growing up that made my testimony of the gospel grow. I suppose what stands out most to me is when I was 12, I read the scriptures by myself for the first time, and when I was done I prayed to Heavenly Father asking if it was true or not. All I can say is that the feeling that I got at that moment, was so wonderful, and so utterly undeniable, I just haven't been the same since.

Wonderful, positive question BTW.

Answer 4

I wasn't raised as a Christian. Through a rough childhood and as a young adult I didn't give God much thought. Until things got pretty bad for me. I was into drugs, alcohol and fornication with several partners. I moved in with my Grandparents who are Christians and they invited me to there Pentecostal Church.

It took me a long time to believe in Jesus. I had built a very thick wall in my heart. But he didn't give up on me. A new Christian radio station was gust getting started. So I listened to it and learned more about forgiveness and God's love.

I soon got on my knees and asked Jesus into my life. And the transformation that took place was a miracle. I no longer did drugs or drank or smoked cigarettes and the desire to have sex was soon replaced with the love of God.

I know many people don't believe in God and I say it is there choice but I don't know why they insist on cutting on Christians because it is our choice to believe.

I have been a Christian for over 21 years now and I'm not saying it is easy but with God we can do anything.

Answer 5

i'm no longer christian, yet even as i began examining the recent testomony, it replaced my existence. I wasn't raised with faith. My relations says they're christian even with the indisputable fact that. We not in any respect went to church even with the actuality that. I used to imagine church homes were in elementary words open on Christmas and Easter. In october 2001 i began examining the recent testomony, as i develop into examining Jesus' words, I replaced. i realized this develop into the right thanks to stay. Peace, love, understand-how. I felt a lot love for anybody. I went to the in elementary words individual in the international I had earlier hated, I hated this female a lot. I went to her paintings, instructed her how sorry i develop into for issues. And instructed her if she ever needed some thing i'd continually be there for her. I felt a lot love for her. the international develop into desirable.i imagine this sense is heaven.no longer an section, yet this sense.no longer some thing might want to've been extra perfect.and that i knew that anybody might want to in some unspecified time sooner or later sense this.definite I truly have had some unexplainable issues ensue because that element, i'd call between the failings that got here about a miracle.

Answer 6

Time & Space will not allow me to give you my 36 yrs with the Lord. But in a quick answer, In June 1969 I was in a head on collision, I promised God if my family lived, I will serve him, They lived, But I did not serve God, In Feb 1970, I was in another car wreck, & I heard that small still voice inside me said, don't you remember what you propmised me, Then in May 1970, I gave my life over to God, Not because of fear, But because I knew that I was missing out on something, I was baptised in Aug. 1970 in the Name of The Lord Jesus Christ, & on July 22, 1971 On a Thursday night in a little tent meeting at 10:30 pm. I received the Holy Ghost. & now here I am over 36 yrs. later still serving God, & have no intensions of turning back.

Answer 7

God always gives me more than I beg.
I wish to establish a library of only about 10,000 books for my learning and for the learning of my children, but He gives me all the libraries in the world. More than that, He gives His Creative Word which I didn't ask because I did not know its existence and its greatest value.
Because I beleive, I am living in the Golden Age while you are wandering in the dark world of doubts and sufferings! Even YahooAnswers is also my paradise, what is it to you?

Answer 8

...Before Christ: I was secure in my surroundings and the people who loved me. There were problems, like divorce and mental illness. My dad was a great provider, and he remarried. My stepmother and I fought and fought. I was a churchgoer as a young teen, but stopped going after while, and so did my friends – marijuana and other drugs destroyed the church youth group. I ran around with friends who my father really wouldn't have approved of if he knew, and we drank alcohol illegally, used cigarettes and smoked marijuana. My dad didn't really know what to do with me.
…After high school, many things started to change, and I could not stop these changes. My friends left for college, and family members were moving away. I felt I had nothing to hold on to, nothing I could trust in, nothing that would stay around forever; I also was not sure about right and wrong, so I started to read the Bible. It was just what I was looking for, and I tried to do in my strength – a miserable failure.
...When I met Christ…I talked to a pastor friend of mine, and I told him I was not happy - and he asked me if I was Christian. We talked for a while about what being a Christian really means (having a personal relationship with Jesus) , and that afternoon, I prayed asked Jesus to save me and to make me the kind of person He wanted me to be.
...After Christ: I am secure in Christ and in God's promises. He has promised never to leave me or forsake me. He empowers me to live right, and shows Himself strong in my weaknesses (I have several physical problems – diabetes, ½ blind, bi-polar). His word is my guidebook for life, and He promised me eternal life in Christ, as a free gift, so I am Heaven-bound.
...I married a fantastic Christian lady and we have 3 great kids, all teens now. I reconciled with my parents (my dad, mom, and stepmother), saw my dad recommit his life to Christ, and had many years of sweet fellowship with Dad before he died. My brother and his family are solid believers in Christ, and several of my in-laws are also believers - we share a wonderful fellowship with them.
...Real life to me now is to know Jesus and live for Him by His grace. I know why I get up in the morning. He gives a life with meaning, a life of divine purpose and significance, and Heaven to boot - where can anyone find a better deal than that?

Answer 9

See my answer to this other question

Answer 10

I was in a bad accident and my brain was removed then i became a christian i see god every where i go..