Question for the Believers.?

Question

What comples you to live your life a you are told?
Why do you believe?
Is their any proof?
What do you gain?


(This question is not meant to scrutinise anybody or anybody's faith, just a genuine interest)

Thanks.

Answer 1

I live my life of faith because of the way my life has changed since I made the choice to believe. I was lonely, frustrated, financially struggling and just generally unhappy with life. Everything changed when I found my faith and God.

As for proof, it is difficult to produce hard evidence. So much of the proof is in within me. BUT there are some visible changes. Following God's word and principles set out in the bible, my financially situation is improving. I have not changed jobs or won the lottery or anything like that but thing are changing. To me that is physical proof that following God's word and doing what He says does work.

What have I gained? UNTOLD happiness, contentment and just pure joy. Yes I have bad days, but not many!!!! After having seen the changes turning to God has made, there is nothing that would make me go back.

Answer 2

I have been interested in this sort of thing for a good many years.

And I was determined that it would not 'brainwash me'
And still to this day I think like the above.

Is there any proof you ask?

Even though I have been going for the last eight or nine yrs.
I have had messages that do ring true in my life.

Things that I have been told about my Mom and Dad.

Comments about my future life.

What do you gain?

Well I lead unfortunatly a mundane life-and I go in the hope that there are a few good points in my life I can look forward to.

Answer 3

Qusetion 1. God is wiser than man, my trust in him is stronger than the trust in myself, I have let my own self down to many times.
2. Nothing else makes sence to me, there must be something that is much bigger and greater to create all that is, if you only think about your own body and how all the parts work. Who made it? It just didn't apear.
3.Proof? well most people only tend to believe what they can see, I can't show you God! but I believe by faith and no one has ever come up with anything else that makes to me. The big bang thing, come on, I just can't believe two big rocks crashed in space and created all liveing things. Evalotion some say we come from apes, where did the apes come from? and that still don't explane all other liveing things. What I do know is I believe in God and I have prayed to him and seen the prayers get answered and I know this life is short there must be something more to it. The Bible teaches you to live well and to love and I do believe it is Gods word.
4. What I gain is Gods grace!
If I'm wrong when I die, I have lost nothing, I just lived a good life with hope and faith. But if I'm right like I believe I am then My God has a place for me in his kingdom.
This life passes fast and know one knows when there time is up, I am much more concerened about what happens to me and others after this life, That will be forever and ever.
I am almost 50 and looking back on my life, it has passed very quickly, years seem like days. I know as big as this world is and all that is in it, It is not about me, there is something much bigger and that is God.

Answer 4

I used to be agnostic, if I have to label it all. I believed in God but rejected organised religion. One day I quite simply met with Jesus, in a spiritual experience rather than being talked into it, and I could no longer deny his existence and that he is still alive. After that I studied other faiths and the claims of the Bible and have remained a strong christian. On a daily basis, knowing that all things are in the hands of a very loving God and that I can lean on him and give to him all my problems big and small is a great comfort. I'm aware that not all will accept Jesus, but I'm grateful that my own eyes were opened. I enjoy spending time quietly talking to him, he does talk back although not in a booming voice, quite often he talks to me through other christians and things that happen, answered prayers and stuff like that. I've seen people changed by meeting him, like I was, and I've prayed for people and seen them healed, we have a lot of that in church too.
As for proof, you can find it everywhere but for me I didn't see it until I met Jesus. Like Paul/Saul, I had the scales fall from my eyes. Like I was seeing the world as it really is for the first time (think Neo waking up in the real world in The Matrix).

Answer 5

1. nothing compels me as such, but the truth that has been revealed to me happens to pass the test, at least for the most part and it accords with the traditions of my religion
2. I believe the account of John 1; for me that is at least 90% of the truth; all else is of secondary importance
3. the only proof I have is subjective and could easily be dismissed as an illusion; however it works for me!
4. I gain more than I could hope for by my own efforts alone

Answer 6

Better control of your own self. It's not necessarily reflected in lifestyle. 1 John 2:15-17 says: "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever."

Answer 7

The things God has done for me in my life, and my realisation of this, lead to me to live my life to Him and His only Son.
I had cancer at the age of 10 and prayed everyday that God would be by my side, even though I had never really gone to church, I was crying out and tears were falling, but He pulled through and gave me the strength to get through the days of anguish and hardship that I had to endure. God has also promised me that one day He will tell me why I had cancer, and other sufferings that have happened in my life, for example, my brother dying 10 minutes into his life and my Grandmother, who in my eyes was, well, still is, the nicest person on the planet, suffered a brain haemmorage and is now permanently disabled. God has promised He will tell me why these things have happened and I already now that the experiences that I have had in my life are openly being used by God for the help of others. Additionally, I have seen God, through His Son and the power of the Holy Spirit, perform miracles and healings, even to myself. I had quite a serious ACL injury in my knee that looked like it was getting to the point of surgery, until it was prayed for and God's presence was felt and my knee was healed. I still have a few problems with it, but on a minute scale than in comparison to before God healed me.
I gain a sense of living a life for an almighty, the giver of life in a way that makes Him happy to look on His creation and smile. Also, I hope that one day I will get to meet the Creator and stay with Him for eternity.



Note: Thanks for the thumbs down whoever gave me that!
Did you even read it, or you did and didn't like what you heard? Just wondering, doesn't bother me, a thumbs up (or thumbs down if I have done bad (e.g. sinned)) from God is much more important!

Answer 8

It's the fulfilling of the promise of The Holy Spirit of God, to be given to all who believe and accept Jesus into their heart. It's the realness of the Spirit of God.

Its the Spiritual Birth that takes place in a believers heart and life.

You ask what it is the comples us to live our life as the Bible (I think thats what you mean) tells us to?

In 1 John 3:9 we read; Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

The phrase "doth not commit sin" is speaking of habitual sin. Thats doing the same sins day in and day out, over and over.

The key to understanding is in the phrase "his seed"

The seed of God that John is speaking of here is the Holy Spirit of God.

In Genesis 1:11 we see the purpose and nature of a seed. Here we read; And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

Here we see that the purpose and nature of a seed is its "ability" to reproduce "after" his or "its" kind.

So, if a person is born of God, by the seed of God - The Holy Spirit - The Holy Spirit can only produce "after" the nature of God.

You ask "Is there any proof? The answer is Yes! Its the Realness of The Spirit.

You ask "What do you (or we) gain? The Apostle Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:17; Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new

Answer 9

I think it's an understanding of a bigger picture.

One must put one's trust, tried & tested in 'something'. Science for the physical, spirituality / religion for what's beyond.

I think the proof's experiential. When one lives according to ethical precepts / principles, one gains integrity - gradually over time. This leads to happiness & the priceless quality of being at peace with one's conscience.

If there is an afterlife, one would've provided as best for it as one possibly can.

If there isn't, then one would've lived a good life, gained good friends, confidence, fearlessness, praise-worthiness, a good reputation, etc, etc.

Those who appear to be experts with regard to the world, appear to concur, however, that there is a beyond.

Answer 10

"What comples you to live your life a you are told?"
You mean like thou shalt, and thou shalt not? You got the wrong Christian.

"Why do you believe?"
In Jesus? He convinced me. Have you noticed how many people want proof? Well, I got it. But God decides who gets it, and who doesn't get it. So I'd like to show it to you, but it ain't my job!

"Is their any proof?"
I got it, yeah. ( I'm being totally serious)

"What do you gain?"
A lot of things. Love ( really) , comfort, a future that exceeds this fu' cking life, peace with God, safety, . . . a bunch of stuff like that.

It's not what you think it is if you think that we have to be a certain way. For some of us it is because they have "Church Rules" along with God's rules. They are stuck in it. Not me. That's why I don't like religion. I belong to God, not some 'church'.