Why do you believe what you do? (Christians only)?

Question

Don't just answer that he is real or make some quotes from the bible. I could say the same from any fairytale book. Give me a good explaination on why do you believe what you do? The truth that lies deep inside you, the real reason.

xela 322 has the best answer so far.

Answer 1

some people like me think who created use and some of us beeper i don't wanna die and go no were so they think no I am going to haven

Answer 2

I was raised on hellfire and brimstone--tow the line or--suffer the consequences (the child of a Catholic and Methodist). Fear made me believe for a long time (I don't know what I believed -- I just did!!!) Now I've relaxed---God or a higher power has guided my life--I won't say I'm religious, I am spiritual. Having had cancer twice, having lost most of my family, I still think there is something out there somewhere. I recall my last bout with cancer when I asked my husband to leave the house for an hour---I picked up glasses and threw them at the wall and cursed God and the heavens and anything else that I could--my dog had cancer also--we struggled together--to this day I don't know if it was God or the love my dog and I had for each other that kept me alive. My dog died 2 weeks after my last treatment--he should've died months before--I'm not sure if my Boo knew I needed him or if God knew I needed my Boo. I'm now a 4 year survivor--still not what one would call religious, still spiritual . I know you asked for Christians only--I hope you'll at least read this, so many people quote Bible verses and make them "fit" into their own beliefs. My husband and I take on all religions, all beliefs, we celebrate the earth, the animals, God, whatever Higher Spirit there may be, as our kids tell us - "we won't really know til we get there!"

Answer 3

Do you love someone? How do you know you love them? Most people say "you just know." And that's kinda the way i feel about my savior. But it's so much more than "just knowing," it's also looking at the facts. Look at the world around us. The incredible intricacies of nature. The way the earth and sun are the perfect distance apart. Any closer and we'd all burn up--any farther.....and we'd freeze. All other beliefs i've learned about have flaws, loose ends and illogical
thinking. I don't see any other way we could all be existing if there wasn't a supreme being holding us all together, giving us all every breath we take. I think it's because of the scientific and time-tested facts which prove the Bible right that hold my beliefs together. Even though his very being is unfathomable for us, only God makes sense to believe in.

Answer 4

I came to a point in my life when by 'chance' I read a couple of verses of the Bible which spoke directly into my life and situation, because of this I exercised faith in asking God to save me.

Since then and from that very moment I experienced God in my life in many different ways. As a Christian I believe God is in control and nothing happens by accident, and many things have happened in my life that I know to be God but others will put down to coincidence, but I have also seen things happen that are by no accounts coincidence.

Cutting this story short, my step mum was very ill, dying in fact, we were told by several consultants that she had about 2 hours to live, she had septicaemia, and as we watched her life signs became weaker and weaker.

I prayed for her, and as soon as I finished praying her life signs turned around pulse became stronger and so on, and two weeks later she was home and leading a totally normal life.

I watched and listened as three consultants discussed her case and their conclusion was that they simply shook their heads in disbelief and held up their hands with no answer.

I have known and still know God in my life in many different ways, over the 10 years that I have been saved He has totally changed the kind of person I am, now this is not me trying to be a good little Christian but this is a total change from withn, changing how I think, my desires and so on.

No one can ever tell me that I have not experienced what I have experienced, no one can take this from me or change what I know to be true through experience.

Of course since becoming a Christian I have read and studied the Bible and the more I do, the more I believe, the more I experience, the more I believe.

The Bible tells me (and I have to quote scripture here as part of my answer) that "The Spirit of God will bear witness with my spirit to let me know I am a child of God" Romans 8:16

This is an experience that Christians have and one that only Christians have, so it is not something I can expect anyone that is not Christian to understand, but it is another thing that no one can argue or take away from me.

So for me it began by faith, then I experienced God, though faith is still required as there are many things which I come across that I do not understand, so in faith I believe and so on...

And now I simply know beyond a shadow of doubt that He is real, that I am His Child...

I have tried to answer your question as best I can, but some things are hard to put into so little words.

JB

Answer 5

Because I have come face to face with my sin and seen the enormity of it. I have seen the face of evil and know the depths to which it goes. I have seen and felt and experienced hatred, apathy, depression, hopelessness, emptiness, sorrow, misery and more on a level many people never will. I see the work of a Force of Evil in the world around me. And yet, through all of this, I feel the presence of God around me too, even when I didn't care about Him. He's been there the whole time, guiding every step, every detail to bring me to where I am right now, knowing the things I know, proclaiming them openly with a passion that goes far deeper than any guilt I may feel about what I've done. I have felt His forgiveness, and you just can't feel that liberation and not believe. It can't be explained; you have to experience it to understand.

Answer 6

The honest truth is that I have no real answer. I dont know why I believe in God and Jesus, I just do. I know the Bible says we're supposed to be ready and have an answer for anytime someone asks us that.. but I dont.. I just think that theres no way I could not believe in the Biblical God after sooo many things have happened in my life, whether its the things I've experienced, observed or learned.. How could I not believe in Him... sorry its not a better answer!

Answer 7

God showed me His truth. I wasn't looking for Him. I hated God and I hated fools that loved Him. God was an imaginary crutch of the weak. That all changed in one night, one second. It was a miracle and I have been a new creature ever since. The only thing I can say to you is God is real and He loves you and He is waiting for you, but time is short. What can I say to make someone believe? It is up to God and you. All I can say is that the Bible is truth and God is real.

Answer 8

i used to have an empty heart... i use to do things trying to bring myself joy, peace, fulfillment... i tried drugs, i tried drinking, i tired sex, i tried money.... i tried it all... and still, no matter how much i had, or how "good" i had it.... something was missing. i remember waking up one morning, massive hang over from the night before, rolling over in bed to see an attractive female and then thinking to myself, "there's got to be more to this life". you see, my heart was broken. i was lonely, i was searching for love. and one day, i found that love. now, i am completly satisfied with all i have in this world. now, i dont wonder about why im here or why any of this is even going on. now, i am not lonely... i have a love, a love that is so deep it blows my mind. my heart was healed, i had never before known such a love. its hard to explain, its one of those things that you have to experience to fully understand what it is like... words cant begin to describe it... i just wish that i could show it to the world, so they all could see the marvelous light.

blessings upon you my friend

Answer 9

My only proof of my belief is tolerating with the world and personal problems. When a problem develops and I stress to Christ for help, I have witness miracles. Sometimes I know not to expect too much, because we are constant being test.

God Bless

Answer 10

because I know him personaly. I recovered after a bad car accident suprissing the docters as a child. which I am sure was due to my parents prays. I have felt God speak to me when in egypt , where I realy felt the bible come to life. and I have felt a hug from Jesus when I finally gave my life compleatly to him. now I know he is with me always I have no doubt or fear.

Answer 11

I think you'll know by asking this question.
What's the whole point of salvation? Check this: God at the
beginning of time sets up laws, scientific laws, gravity,
etc. He also sets up a basic law of obedience: love God and
love your neighbor. Man broke these two laws (the core of
the Ten Commandments). All of us break these laws. God has
already said if you don't follow these laws you will be put
to death. But since He loves His creation, He doesn't want
to destroy them. He wants a way to save them. But how?
Sacrifice. Executing the consequence but on someone else.
But who could be worthy enough to be sacrified for billions
of people since the beginning of time? God. So He went to
earth, and died for the sins of man.

All He asks now is for you to accept that. That is
salvation. He doesn't want you to pull up a list of things
so you can be 'Christian'. He just wants you to accept that
He died for you and that your sins are forgiven when you ask
of it to be.

Now how about attitudes and following laws and
regulations and all this jazz. You have to see God as a
friend rather than a cop. Just for an example, if you
hang out with friends that smoke all the time, you are
influenced to do so yourself and might take up smoking.
In the same way, if you hang out with God and people that
believe in Him, you will be influenced to live that kind of
life. The change is progressive, and to some people
instant. But it all starts out with befriending God.