Why are you a Christian?

Question

Shalt02 - Because you tried everything not to be. Yeah right.

Godless slave - No need to cry. I`m not either.

Answer 1

When I was 18 years old I planned out my suicide. I also called a crisis line to see if they could find me a reason to not die. They referred me to a group of Christians.

I hung around with the Christians for a few weeks. On October 21, 1971 I decided I wanted what those people had , which was peace and joy. So I asked Jesus to come into my being and take over, because I couldn't do life on my own any more. He did and I'm so grateful. More than I have words to say it.

I am a Christian: because Jesus loves me and made a way to take me out of death and into life; because I needed God, I had been severely abused and the pain was too much to live with-without Christ it would have killed me. I'm a Christian because God came looking for me and loved me. He was the first one to ever love me, No One Loved Me before Jesus!! I am a Christian because I did everything I could to live without Him and it all failed and let me down. I have been a Christian now for 36 years and I have never found any other way of life that can begin to compare/compete with being a believer.

Answer 2

Honey, there just isn't enough space to list why I'm a Christian. First of all I have experienced the drawing of the Holy Spirit which is something that I know not everyone will understand so I won't go into details there. God didn't call us to a blind belief. I for one know why I believe. God is real to me and I feel His presence. If you don't. You're missin' out.That empty space inside you that you can't seem to get filled... That's where He belongs! You can keep trying to fill it with, money, drugs, alchohol, partying, sexual immorality or whatever your "pleasure" of choice, but in the end it's all empyness.
From the Old Testament alone, more than 2000 specific prophesies have been fulfilled.
No other so called Holy book compares.Most of the 333 prophesies concerning the Messiah were fulfilled by the birth and life of Jesus Christ and the rest will be fulfilled at His second coming. A mathematician, Peter Stoner, had his graduate students calculate what the odds would be of any one person fulfilling just eight of these prophesies. He found the chance was one in 100,000,000,000,000,000 !Only a God who knows the future could have revealed these prophesies to those that He would have record them in His Word.

In spite of what is being taught today, the truth is we can reconstruct most of the life of Jesus Christ through non - Christian writers of the first century. Even Celsus who despised Christianity, never considered claiming that Jesus Christ did not exist.This is what can be learned from the writing of Celsus...

He was born of a virgin in a small village of Judea;
He was adored by wise men;
His birth was followed by the slaughter of infants by order of Herod;
He took flight to Egypt, where Celsus supposed Christ learned the charms of the Magicians;
After returning, He resided in Nazareth;He was baptized and the Holy Spirit descended on Him as a voice was heard from heaven;
He elected disciples;
He was a friend with publicans and other low people;
He cured the lame and blind;
He raised people from the dead;
He was betrayed by Judas;
He was denied by Peter;
In addition Celsus refers to several details of Christ's passion, crucifiction, and resurrection.

Twenty seven books of the New Testament, nineteen Pagan writers, and three Jewish writers testify to Jesus Christ's historical reality. When I hear people say that Jesus or the Bible is just a myth I just realise that they are simply unaware of the facts.I recommend The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel and or Skeptics Answered or The Gate Of Hell Shall Not Prevail by D. James Kennedy, and The Signature of God by Grant R. Jeffrey. May all your thoughts be taken captive by the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Answer 3

Because Ive used the atonement in my life. Ive felt the power change my very nature. I am living evidence that it's real.

Answer 4

Okay, this is the bottom line why I am a Christian:

Because God wanted me.

I cannot tell you in more precise terms. God wants certain people and is willing to give them His influence to get them to respond to Him. All the rest of the people who He does not do that to He doesn't want, they are not counted as His children, and that's in His plan too.

So you got it now, you don't have to wonder any longer.

Answer 5

I am not christian I am a human being

Answer 6

Because I believe the Bible is the divinely inspired word of God, eminently suited to the life of my neighbor and because I believe in emulating the life of Christ inasmuch as such behavior is compatible with a life of sin.

Answer 7

I am a Christian because God placed circumstances in my life that lead me to a personal relationship with Him.

Answer 8

Because I tried everything I could not to be.

Answer 9

Because I am so grateful that Christ gave His life for me, even though He didn't have to.

Answer 10

Nothing else makes sense