Are you a christian? Why or Why Not?

Answer 1

YES... because the evidence fits.... and he had changed my life.... my parents divorced, my mom killed herself, my stepmom and my dad got divorced.. and my second stepmom and my dad gor divorced.... my brother has a mental disease... and the man I love is with someone else... and he loves me too... but Jesus has gotten me through it all.

Answer 2

I'm not a Christian, i tend to believe in facts and not hate other people because they don't like the same stuff as me. Most religions came at a time where the world and almost everything that happened was poorly understood. They made these stories to help people understand. With science today, still having religious people is rather dumb.

Answer 3

I am a Christian for many reasons, but the main one is that my parents raised me and my brothers and sisters that way. throughout my life, I have felt the happiness associated with being with those I love united in a larger family through one man who changed the world.

"Do this in memory of Me," Said He.

And so, I do. Although there have been many times that I have fallen away in faith and failed at love and faltered in hope, I know deep within me is this abiding determination to be like Him.

To be loving, and kind, and speak softly. This is my ideal as a Christian and as a human being.

Thanks, Mom and Dad.

Answer 4

OF COURSE... IT'S THE ONLY LOGICAL CHOICE! The people who claim that atheism is a logical choice either: (1.) Have bought in to one of the myriad FALSE Jesus concepts and thus disbelieve something that is actually false without seeking and finding the REAL Jesus among the distorted and twisted versions which are so common in today's PSEUDO-CHRISTIANITY. (2.) Have no real understanding of what it takes to make a valid logical argument so they are ill-equipped to consider the facts and make an educated rational judgment. (3.) Have allowed the distortions of pseudo-scientific philosophers to convince them that there are fallacies in the scriptures...

Is it LOGICAL to assume that the HUNDREDS of people who had DIRECT knowledge of the MIRACULOUS power of Jesus and were killed because they would not recant their claims about him DID THAT FOR NO REASON?

The work of Lightfoot and Ussher, the seventeenth century nut jobs that came up with the idea of creation in 4004 B.C. successfully convinced many people that their methods and arguments were valid. The opposite is really the case. The method is, by definition invalid, relying on scriptures taken out of context and used in a manner which is not in line with their intent. In effect they took numerous passages and shuffled them together like a deck of playing cards. They then selectively dealt them out in an arbitrary manner in order to reach their desired conclusion rather than truthfully interpreting them to learn what they have to teach us. Instead of doing "exegesis," (Studying the scriptures TRUTHFULLY to let them teach their own message) Lightfoot and Ussher did "exegesis," that is, they read INTO the text a particular answer.

...Their bit of improper Biblical interpretation did more to advance the cause of atheism than anything in the previous 15 centuries, probably even more than the work of Charles Darwin.

Answer 5

Nope, im not a Christian, for the simple fact that I dont believe in invisible super beings who create entire universes, and send people to all white, all perfect magical paradises in the sky, based upon whether you've lived your life according to a 2,000 year old book.

Answer 6

Yes, I'm a Christian,because I choose to follow Christ.

John 14

6Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Answer 7

Yes.
i FOLLOW the Christ (Messiah) Jesus

that was foretold in the bible but i do not follow TRADITIONS made by those claiming to be so with Pagan roots.

I follow Him because i believe he is the only thing that shed hope to humankind, that gave us faith, to give us a good message to hang in there and that God will make things better like the miracles of resurrection he had presented to us. I follow him because he is my Redeemer (Matthew 3:16- For God loved the world so much he gave his only begotten son in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have EVERLASTING LIFE) I follow him because he was a perfect example, he denied Satan in even deliberate acts. And who wouldn't follow someone who did good deeds and only loved the people? Especially die horribly as an innocent man just by "disturbing" the peace of the Pharisees and the people who were ignorant and haughty!

Answer 8

Faith-Definition: confidence or trust in a person or thing: belief that is not based on proof:
Yes, I'm a born-again christian. The sun rises/falls,the earth stays on it's axis. Look around God is all around us. Jesus was willing to come to earth and become a man. Of all the religions christianity is the only one that has a God that is still alive. God does not believe in athiest's. So athiest's don't exist. I can personally attest to a countless list of situations and things where that God has shown His Love and Caring for me. Think of it. God doesn't push himself on us rather he gives us freedom of choice. My question to you is. If I'm wrong then my life was neither wasted nor excellent. But what if I'm right?, If I'm right then all those who did not ask God to live in their hearts will live with Satan and all his nymphs for all eternity. There shall be weeping and nashing of teeth.

Answer 9

I am not a Christian though I was raised in the church. I am no longer Christian because I could no longer digest what was being spoon fed to me by the church.

Answer 10

I am christian, because Jesus never beheaded anyone, or burned crosses on people's lawns, or crashed planes into buildings. So, I choose to follow the example set by Jesus, and no one else.

Thanks for asking

Answer 11

Your question seems as if you are trying to come up with a good enough reason to believe in God or not to believe. Pope John Paul II said that the basic usefulness of faith lies precisely in the fact that a person believes and entrusts himself. Christianity is not made up to control people. People freely choose Christ. Children, even though they were raised by parents to believe, choose to remain in the end.

The mystery of Christ is something that is foolishness to others. Entrusting ourselves to God may seem ridiculous to to others because we are who we make ourselves to be, they say, and we don't need God because religion is burdensome and stupid. But this "burden" is what will make us identify with the suffering of our Lord. Our freedom is not hampered by religion. It is in fact, enhaced because we become free from the calls of evil. Others can't stop their vices even they try; this proves that they are traped in that state, that is, they are not free. But TRUE Christians freely choose to have this "burden" upon them. Just as Christ showed His greatness by freely choosing to suffer. Non-believers are afraid of suffering and discomfort, that is where their weakness lies.

If you are asking this question to weigh the two alternatives of believeing and not, I suggest you ask your Christian friends whom you really trust and they will be the ones to tell you of their experience with God.