Was christianity something that your parents passed down to you? Did your grandparents pass it down to them? Maybe it even goes back 40 or 50 generations since your ancestors weren't christian. Do you think that because you are raised to be a christian it has to be true. Should you question whether or not your ancestors had it wrong afterall, they were only believing what they were told to believe.
2007-09-23 17:46:21 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think you have a good question here.
I was raised christian and my whole family is christian and even after generation are christians, but Im now Muslim. When I was a christian I wanted to go but when I started to not understand I didn't want to go then I was being forced to be christian.
Since im a different religion then my whole family they accuse me of calling my grandparents and the generations after that liars, not my inention but I just choose a different path that seems right to me other then Christianity.
2007-09-23 17:59:45 · answer #1 · answered by FeshFash 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Why are you a Christian?"
If I have to boil it down to the bare essence of why, then I would say that it was because God wanted me.
"Was christianity something that your parents passed down to you? Did your grandparents pass it down to them? "
Heck no. They wouldn't go to church. Neither did they allow us to talk to those who wanted to talk to us about it.
"Maybe it even goes back 40 or 50 generations since your ancestors weren't christian. Do you think that because you are raised to be a christian it has to be true. Should you question whether or not your ancestors had it wrong afterall, they were only believing what they were told to believe."
I believe they had it wrong.
It wasn't the first time I stood alone against them on something, there was all the racist issues I was standing against with them too. I was real popular with them then (sure I was!) , and I am even more popular with them now that I am a Christian! (sure I am!). lol
I am an oddball in my family. Now that my Dad is saved I wonder how they look at me. But I am just rambling.
2007-09-23 18:01:45 · answer #2 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian because during a near death experience I was exposed to something that I conceived of as Christ, but there were no names, no voices, no scriptures, just love. I may have been prejudiced by my human thoughts which would be weird since at the time I was in Wicca. I'm becoming aware that it could be the experience behind all those prophets and God names and that all that history is differing interpretations of a common experience. I get inspiration from what Jesus teaches but Paul was just trying to build an earthly organization. I get inspired by Buddha, Rumi, Krishna, and Zoroaster as well. There's no point in thinking any one of them were different than any one of us. We are all manifestations of God, we should treat each other accordingly.
2007-09-23 17:57:00 · answer #3 · answered by gnosticv 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even though I was raised in a Christian family, that doesn't automatically make one a Christian. It is a personal choice I made for myself as an adult.
What I believe makes me what I am. I believe in Jesus Christ, our Lord. I believe in God's Holy Word as the TRUTH. I believe Jesus died for my sins, so I could be forgiven, and have eternal life. I accept Him as my Lord and Savior. I live my life for Him.
Everyone is born into sin. No one is automatically born into Christianity, even though being in a Christian home did show me the way when I was young. However, I know a lot of Christians who weren't born into a Christian home, and still became Christians. It is a personal choice, about a personal relationship with God. Thanks for asking.
2007-09-23 17:55:14 · answer #4 · answered by byHisgrace 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At some point in your life you have to decide if it is true or not. As adults we are not children just believing. You decide whether you think it is true, if you believe it isn't true then you decide whether or not you want to pretend (because you like the lifestyle, scared, ect) or don't care.
I have a friend who has came to her own conclusion the opposite way a just described. She believes it to be true but doesn't care. " I'm going to hell and I know it but I don't want iGod." So even if you believe you still choose what you are going to do about it.
2007-09-23 17:54:50 · answer #5 · answered by Peggy Pirate 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None of my parents or family were Christians, I chose it because it is truth.
I chose to believe what I believe because faith and spirituality is the ONLY truly global constant. Science is nothing but a set of rules that is constantly being rewritten, changed, broken, altered, and scrapped.
GH : Have you ever been to a christian church? I have never heard any of my pasters/priests tell me I am going to hell if I chose to not believe. Christianity teaches that a single man, a son of God came to earth to form a relationship with everyone and Christianity is a basis by which we grow that relationship.
2007-09-23 17:50:28 · answer #6 · answered by Danny N 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well.first of all I believe in Gods word!Of course in God too!Both of my parents came from a different religion and I didn't grow up going to church with them!It was a choice I made on my own!I know the Bible has all the answers I need.God has also shown me in many ways,as He does for everyone.Its just whether you pay attention.=)
2007-09-23 17:54:42 · answer #7 · answered by Sweetheart 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian because I believe what the Scripture says - that a Christian is a person who has the indwelling Holy Spirit and thereby believes that Christ is God, that he resurrected from the dead (and is alive today) and was born of a virgin (establishing his sinless nature).
'... however, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him (Romans 8:9);
'... do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?' (1 Corinthians 3:16).
2007-09-23 17:52:08 · answer #8 · answered by cheir 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I was taught a lot of false doctrine growing up. I searched in a lot of very un-Christian places for the truth.
God calls those who are to believe. They are the ecclesia, meaning "called."
God calls us and like a lost sheep comes and finds us where we are and answers questions we didn't even know we had.
2007-09-23 17:54:18 · answer #9 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being a Christian is a personal choice everybody makes. Either you have a close relationship with Jesus Christ, or you don't. Are you really a Christian or are you pretending to be one? Only the person individually can answer that for themselves.
2007-09-23 17:50:31 · answer #10 · answered by jenshubby97701 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋