Christians - did you convert to Christianity without ever having read the bible?

Question

I know someone people who have. They have only begun to learn about the bible now that they go to church.

Answer 1

Absolutely, only after getting saved did I start reading the Bible, they that are whole need not a Physician remember, thats what Jesus told the Pharisees. If you don't think you need God you are not going to read it, but something usually happens, and most Christians can point to this, it will snap you into reality, it did for me, I heard that small still voice telling me I needed to be saved, At the time I really new nothing about God but I knew at that time he was speaking to me and I knew I wanted to be saved and have my sins washed away. I also suddenly realized by heart was beating fast and I was sweating and crying and that was something I had never did before, I knew something supernatural and something very good was happening to me. And of course it was. As I stepped out to head to the Pastor at the church met me and we Prayed a sinners prayer and a great burden was lifted off of me that I didn't know I was carrying around, I hadn't realized that sin was heavy at the time but when you get saved and your sins are washed away you become lighter, Praise the Lord, he saved me that day and I am learning everyday about him as I read and Pray and just trust in him for the strength to endure each day. God Bless YOU with Numbers 6:24-26

Answer 2

For a whilst I grew to become a Fundi after I whilst I wasn't certain that they have been Christians seeing that they created a brand new gospel and I transformed again to Catholicism after being concerned with a couple of neo-pagan, occult and new age corporations. When you belong to a created faith it turns into meaningless after a whilst for the reason that you understand it involves "fact" that was once made up by means of a few one else. All those corporations have been made up by means of a few frame. You could make your possess stuff up and comply with that. The such a lot robust fact comes from out part your self from the creator of existence. When you uncover that you are set. Until then you're simply gambling video games along with your possess head.

Answer 3

Before I became a Christian, I couldn't understand the Bible.

Since I have received the Holy Spirit, I am able to read and understand the Bible, and just as Jesus said, the Holy Spirit will reveal Truth.

That's how I know the Bible is truly the Word of God.

Answer 4

I accepted Christ before I had completely read the bible. I have read it all now, and still am a believer.

A lot of people come to Christ when they see the different He's made in someone else's life and they want that in their life too. They commit their life to Him and then grow to know him more by reading the bible.

Others read the bible, come to know him, then accept him. It's all soo personal.

Answer 5

Yes I re-converted back to my Catholic faith and this was without reading the Bible, having said that I developed a hunger for the truth and the scriptures were invaluable .

Answer 6

baptism is a serious step BAPTISM
The Greek ba´pti·sma refers to the process of immersion, including submersion and emergence; it is derived from the verb ba´pto, meaning “dip.” (Joh 13:26) In the Bible, “to baptize” is the same as “to immerse.” In illustration of this, The Holy Bible, An Improved Edition, renders Romans
6:3, 4 as follows: “Or, are ye ignorant, that all we who were baptized (immersed) into Christ Jesus were baptized immersed) into his death? We were buried therefore with him through our baptism (immersion) into his death.” (See also Ro; ED.) The Greek Septuagint uses a form of the same
word for “dip” at Exodus 12:22 and Leviticus 4:6. (See NW ftns.) When one is immersed in water,
one is temporarily “buried” out of sight and then lifted out.

*** w61 1/15 p. 37 Should Your Baby Be Baptized? ***
Should Your Baby Be Baptized?
Does baptism wash away sins? Why did Jesus get baptized?
EVERYONE who has ever thought of his own or his child’s baptism should be vitally interested in this question. There is no doubt that baptism is a requirement for Christians. Jesus Christ himself was baptized in the Jordan River. But what is the Bible’s view of baptizing babies, which is usually done with a few drops of water? Does an unbaptized baby that dies suffer in a world beyond in what has been called “perdition”? Is there hope for unbaptized babies who die?
Just when infant baptism began is not known with preciseness, but it was definitely after the death of the apostles of Jesus Christ that the practice appeared.

Explains The Encyclopœdia
Britannica: “The whole early period knows baptism only for adults, who join themselves of their own resolve to the Christian community. Infant baptism appears sporadically towards the end of the second century and was practiced also during the following centuries, yet only as an
exception.”—Vol. 3, page 84.
This same authority shows that it was nearly four hundred years after the time of Jesus Christ that baby baptism came into considerable prominence, due largely to the influence of Augustine: “The theorist of baptism who has been most influential for succeeding ages is S. Augustine.”
What did he believe? “Infants dying unbaptized are excluded from the Kingdom of heaven in consequence of original sin, and live in the world beyond in some form of perdition, even if of the mildest kind. Baptism has effect upon original sin, in the sense that it takes from it its character of guilt.”
But what of the view that infant baptism is of apostolic origin? The religious historian Neander writes of the first-century Christians: “Faith and baptism were always connected with one another; and thus it is in the highest degree probable that baptism was performed only in the instances
where both could meet together, and that the practice of infant baptism was unknown at this period. . . . That not till so late a period as (at least certainly not earlier than) Irenaeus, a trace of infant baptism appears, and that it first became recognized as an apostolic tradition in the course of the third century, is evidence rather against than for the admission of apostolic
origin.”—Planting and Training of the Christian Church.

Answer 7

No, after growing up in the church it wasn't until about high school that i could really call myself a christian.

Answer 8

Alot people are, especially those in the third world country, who can't even afford a bible.

Answer 9

I know a lot of people who converted FROM Christianity after reading the BuyBull.

Answer 10

We were all born atheists if you think about it..
Most "Christians" are Christian just because it's "the normal thing to do".