Non-atheists: What convinced you of the truth of your religion?

Answer 1

I don't think it was any one thing, but a journey of events and discoveries.
I wasn't brought up in a religious home, my family didn't attend church, we didn't even discuss God in our home, and I never even gave any of that much thought until late 1990. However, having said that, I was also never convinced that evolution was the answer either. When learning about evolution in high school I immediately saw that Darwin's idea was built on erroneous data, and once I learned that there were no transitional fossils, and that evolution has never even actualy transitioned into a true theory, but remains a hypothesis according to the scientif method, evolution was no longer a valid option for my chosen belief system. I had graduated high school in May of 90' and did pretty much whatever I wanted, drinking, fighting, partying, etc.. but that life was leaving me more empty than I was before, not to mention I nearly died twice (once in a horrible rollover car wreck in which I suffered only a dislocated shoulder, and once when a group of gang members came to my appartment in order to kill me because I had "looked at one of them wrong, and hit on his girl friend.") Yet still I had no desire to become a Christian, because I saw them as no fun. So I began reading about Buddhism, and Hinduism, both were entertaining, but too far fetched for me to believe, and all the while my life continued to get worse.
I eventually joined the army, went to basic, then to jump school, then to ranger school, etc... and was soon told that I would be deploying with the 3rd Rangers overseas to a place called Somalia. While in Africa I was given a copy of the Qu'ran by an Islamic cleric. I read it through twice, and there were way too many descrepancies for me to buy into it. Once I returned to the states, I picked up a Bible, and read through it twice (mainly so I could argue with Christians, which I had found out very few actually have ever read their Bibles). Then I was again deployed to Bosnia and again spoke with many who practiced Islam. I found them to be unwilling to discuss their religion on an intellectual level, and also when their apologetics fall short they tended to become violent. I again returned to the U.S. and read all I could about Wicca, as well as the Humanist Manifesto I and II. Both were more emotional driven more than logically or intellectually driven, so I again came back to the Bible. The Bible seemed to make some sense to me, but I felt as if there were too many contradictions, and too many descrepancies in it for me to accept it as true... and I remained so for a couple of years, until I came across a web site called http://www.monergism.com/ which had not only interesting Bible study helps, but also many of the writings of the ancient Christian fathers and founders. I've read nearly everything that is offered on that site, and I must say I was impressed. I then learned propper hermeneutics (IE: how to read things in the propper context, be it historical, grammatical, geographical, etc...) and again read the Qu'ran and the Bible, and the Bible simply destroys the Qu'ran in that sense.
Thus I looked at as much evidence I could find supporting the evolutiionary P.O.V. and then compared it with as much evidence supporting the Christian P.O.V. and I am now quite convinced that Christianity is the truth.
I could go into more detail, but I've already written a mini-novel, so....
I hope that answers the question.

Answer 2

As a Deist, I believe in a higher power but not religion. I believe in a higher power because I am in awe of scientific discovery. For example, did you know every living cell is encoded with information? How does information come from nothing? Information suggests intelligence. That is also why I reject religion. An intelligent designer would not create unintelligent religion. Religion is created by men, not God. I believe that everything God wants us to know about him we can find in nature and within ourselves (his true creations). The only true laws of God are the eternal and unchanging laws of nature.

Answer 3

I remember when I was a wee kid, looking up at the sky and wondering if the God put life on other planets, and you know what? I hadnt even watched a movie with aliens in it before that.

No one had even told me aliens could or would exist. This was a self generated thought.

In other words, I thought of aliens existence before I even saw the whole concept on TV.

I reckon I did that cause I knew God could create anything anywhere.

And you know what? When I saw the first alien movie in my life, I was apalled to see how ugly it was portrayed. I always thought theyd look like us.

Answer 4

Nothing has proven it to me yet, per se. I started out believing the way I do because it's also the religion of my parents and grandparents, but now that I'm older I'm starting to believe it because I actively agree with it.

Answer 5

There is a lot of circumstantial evidence to support Christianity (archaeological, manuscript, tradition, & societal), but I suppose it came down to a gut level feeling that God was trying to convince me that this was right.

Answer 6

Nothing. If one could PROVE that his religion is correct, he wouldn't actually need to have faith.

Answer 7

Godzilla threatened to smash me if I didn't worship him/her/it.

Answer 8

most, especially christians, are brainwashed since childhood.

they didn't choose it. they were brainwashed by their parents and family. it's child abuse.