Have you ever met anyone who converted to Christianity while happy?

Question

I know this sounds weird, but I was just sitting here thinking that I have never met someone who "found Christ" when they weren't at rock bottom emotionally. If you were raised in Christianity you came "back to Jesus" because your life was awful. I never hear someone say, "I was walking by a church just happy as can be and went inside to take a look. I'm Christian now!"

I'm not saying they don't exist. I'm just saying I've never met one or know anyone who has met them.

And you're right about when life gets good they drift away.
I was "saved" at 15 and it was a really rough part of my life. I was drawn in by the trust in Jesus and you'll be fine thing. Until I realized it was no where close to fine and ended up in the hospital all for my faith in "Jesus". I sort of had a wake up call on several fronts with that.

Answer 1

I have met a few people like that. I think a lot of people turn to Christianity when they are down and out, but not all of them. You just hear more of the first people's stories than the people who live perfectly normal lives and happen to believe in God.

And no I never hit my head in church, thank you very much.

Answer 2

Actually, no, I never have. It's always some traumatic event that makes people seek out mystical solutions to their problems. When people get desperate, they are willing to try ANYTHING that they heard will work, and being in a largely religious society means that the most common easily accessible "solution" is the church. There's one within a few miles of any populated area and there's no shortage of people telling you that you need to go to theirs.

It really is a last hope kind of thing, like when people lose loved ones and don't have answers to how they disappeared or if they're still alive or whatnot, they'll try every rational means first, and when those fail they start seeking the crazy stuff like psychics and the church. The only thing that separates these is that the church is the commonly accepted form of irrational measures.

Again, I've never seen a happy atheist convert. It just doesn't make sense. There may be some people that are predisposed to religion that may make that decision, such as those raised in religious communities or lack certain capacities (I'm trying not to insult anyone), but never a happy, well-rounded and well grounded individual.

Answer 3

Yes, some people are actually deep people. They have a genuine curiosity about life and where they came from and how the world began. I can't imagine living in a world happy as can be, and not even know my purpose or how I got here and not knowing the bigger meaning behind it all. Yes, I went to Christianity while happy and opened minded and seriously thinking about and research life.

Answer 4

I grew up in a Christian-based society. I was pretty happy most of the time. I was drawn to Jehovah's witnesses while I was in college through family members (aunts, uncles, cousins).

The appeal was the "thoroughness of their "study" approach. (Yes, yes, many will say they're not "Christians." What-ever.)

The Vietnam war was going on. Protests all over the place, and the witnesses were conscientious objectors and politically neutral so that brother was not killing brother because he happened to live in an "enemy" country. That was appealing.

So they "got" me on a lot of things I considered very positive. It wasn't until later that the ugly bottom-feeding underbelly appeared.

I have known many who joined because they were trying to escape from something. I don't think that was my situation.

Answer 5

Most people do. However, that's only because most people convert to Christianity at a really young age when they're happy and gullible.

You do bring up a good point. Adults rarely seem to be drawn towards Christianity because they are just happy. It's often a crutch for getting out of something that is even worse than religion.

I do think that if we didn't have this societal peer pressure, including childhood indoctrination, people wouldn't have to settle for religion just because they were in an even worse bind.

Answer 6

No, you're right. I have only heard of people who have 'found God' when things were at their worst and they had nowhere else to turn. Usually they were at the church to ask for money or something and got religion while they were there. Once everything is back on track, it's amazing how their religion seems to dwindle away.

Answer 7

I know for a fact that some men have converted to christianity to make their hot christian girlfriends happy. Never underestimate the power of sex appeal.

Answer 8

Me. I was at my house getting ready to go to a revival that night. I thought I was saved. When my husband came through the door and told me he got saved I began to think if I was. He left to go tell his family and I stayed behind because of my bird was dying. The whole time all I worried about was if I was saved. Well when he returned I went to our pastor's house for help but by the time we got there I knew I was lost and needed to be saved.

Answer 9

everyone has his own happiness to find. being a christian now doesn't mean you're not happy with your past religion it's just that you're searching for something or looking for an answer to your question.

Answer 10

Yea, when your lost, brain dead, and are running hopeless you can do some stupid things like covert to christianity. The christians will just take whats left of your money.