2007-07-19 10:54:10 · 15 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
David S: really...that's incredible.
2007-07-19 10:59:17 · update #1
wefmeister: Please tell us about it...pretty please!
2007-07-19 11:02:05 · update #2
Gma Joan: Special knowledge...I see, you must be real special...isn't it a bit arrogant to think you have this special knowledge and that others don't have it...what if they had it and rejected it as piffle?
2007-07-19 11:04:48 · update #3
Wayne T: Jesus X is the Bible character that Xians worship and adore.
2007-07-19 11:10:36 · update #4
Abbasangel: I really think you are fibbing about the personal encounters part..but I would never take the mickey out of you personally on purpose, just your beliefs... I'm not mean.
2007-07-20 11:47:56 · update #5
Hehehe... Jesus X.
Yeah, that's like someone saying "I truly love David Beckham with all my heart and soul" when they've only seen him on the news or E! TV.
2007-07-19 10:56:34 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Mine is not a second hand report it's personal I know Jesus through my experience with him. I remember when I was four I heard the pastor talking about the story of Christ and it first it was just another story to me like Dr Sues. Then it was like something erupted inside me on the way home from church that day the best way I can describe it is hearing stories about wind and never experiencing it on my face then all the sudden i felt a breeze. Except it was in my soul that I felt it then I said to my mom "Mom I want to get saved. I highly doubt many people would want to ask forgiveness from someone they have never met so to speak. Hope that helps
2007-07-19 11:04:28 · answer #2 · answered by mmmk92 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is a Xian? And who is Jesus X? is he a relative of Malcom X?
If you are refering to CHRISTian and JESUS CHRIST. You have no concept of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit or the reality of Christian faith or you would not ask that question. We do not have just "second hand" reports we have a personal revelation and knowledge that transcends any kind of knowledge that you personally are able to understand at this point. That is why Christians claim a personal relationship with Christ.
2007-07-19 11:02:01 · answer #3 · answered by Gma Joan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a personal relationship with Jesus, I know that my encounters are with Him through what the Bible says...
I have first hand experience of His power, love and friendship...
You can keep trying to take the mickey out of me, if you want but you can never detract from my relationship with him, nothing you do, or say will ever change that...
Jesus Loves You too....
2007-07-19 18:12:56 · answer #4 · answered by Abbasangel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a new creation in Christ Jesus, A Believer, Born Again, Blessed and Heaven Bound by the Grace of God.
I love Jesus because he first loved me. He died so I might live and live more abundantly. Praise the Lord.
2007-07-19 11:09:40 · answer #5 · answered by movedby 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends upon your personal realationship with God. If you experience Him every day in life, then you would agree that it is a first hand knowledge, not a second hand knowledge. If on the other hand, you are saved just enouph to go to heaven, you more than likley have a second hand experience of Jesus... Press into Him and He will reveal Himself to you.
2007-07-19 11:00:25 · answer #6 · answered by JG-OR 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Excuse me, it's CHRISTians, NOT xians. And I love my Lord Jesus bcuz I KNOW he exsists. I read the Bible every day. And he lives in my heart, so i know him personally. I can talk to him whenever I want, and he listens intently! I will proudly say that I LOVE JESUS CHRIST! I am a Christian, and I am proud!!
2007-07-19 10:59:11 · answer #7 · answered by ♥david_archuleta♥ 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You are mistaken.
I have had a personal encounter with Him that forever changed my life.
I was born again.
something I wrote for another occasion:
Everyone has a story, an experience in life. What you need to discover is whether your subjective experience lines up with the objective truths of the Bible, the Word of God. Let me very briefly share my own experience. I was raised Catholic, but I was a full-time sinner. My sin began ruining my life, so I did what lots, perhaps most people do - I blamed God (see Proverbs 19:3). I told God to get out of my life. Scary thing was, He did. He left me to myself and I began to exist in a kind of Hell on Earth. I couldn't laugh, nothing was fun or funny anymore. I felt every day like my soul - the inner "Me" , was sinking into a bottomless Pit as a stone in a pond. But I refused to turn to God. Then one day, when I couldn't maintain my "Cool" anymore, I came home fell on my face in my living room, and a voice spoke into my heart saying "Maybe Jesus really did die for your sins". Instantly, I felt myself transported from the lowest Pit to the Highest Mountaintop. Light, Life, Peace, Joy, Love, and Understanding flooded my soul. I realized for the first time that this Gospel story wasn't just a lot of empty words, but that it was the Truth! Nothing but the Truth could have had such a profound redeeming effect on me. I knew Jesus was alive- that he loved me - that it was for me that he had died on the Cross. I knew instinctively that I was "Saved" - though that was not a word that was ever much stressed in my Catholic background. Still, it wasn't until perhaps a year later, when I started reading the Bible, that I realized that the experience I had - and I didn't know anyone else who had that experience - that it was in the Bible all the time! In John Chapter 3 Jesus described to a man named Nicodemus something called being Born Again. I realized that was exactly what happened to me - I was born again. My nature changed in an instant, from a hater to a lover, from a liar to a truthful person, from a scoffer to a believer. Since then I have come to see that my personal experience, in order to be reliable, has to line up with the revelation of Truth contained in the Scriptures - the Bible. Now I know that when I share my experience, it is not just a matter of opinion - which can be a very dangerous thing when you are speaking on matters of what will affect people's ultimate destiny; but that my experience is based on the proven realities revealed in the Word of God. I have also received the Holy Spirit - in measure when I was born again - in fullness through the baptism in the Holy Spirit, as described in Acts Chapters 2:1ff; 10:44-46; 19:2-7. It is the power of the Holy Spirit in my life that enables me to understand and testify to the truth of God's Word, as written in the Scriptures and experienced in my own life, with boldness and confidence. I hope this gives you some sense of direction into what is needed in your own life - Jesus said once to the Saducees " you are mistaken - understanding neither the Scriptures or the power of God" (Matthew 22:29). Make it your determination to know both - the Scriptures, and the power of God. "For the Kingdom of God is not in (mere) words, but in power" (I Corinthians 4:20). Then you will be able to say, as Jesus said "Truly truly I say to you, we speak that which we know, and testify to that which we have seen...) (John 3:11)
another man's story:
http://www.near-death.com/storm.html
2007-07-19 11:00:06 · answer #8 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because I have studied the bible and believe it is what it claims to be...given by inspiration of God. I have also lived my life with the touch of God, His intercession, protection, mercy, blessings and favor, and am grateful for all He has done for me.
If another thinks I'm just imagining all this....okay.
2007-07-19 10:57:00 · answer #9 · answered by Esther 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christians actually experience God through Jesus.
2007-07-19 10:57:17 · answer #10 · answered by Skunk 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋