how did you come into christianity?

Question

did your parents raise you to believe it, or did you accept it on your own?
and a follow up question: how do you treat others who have a different belief than you?
ive seen some really bad christians like coughcadisneygirlcough
but ive also seen good ones like k for him, and lady phoenix
please feel free to elaborate

lol, i meant to say cadisney girl is the bad one
k for him, and lady_phoenix are the nice christians

Answer 1

Brainwashed from birth, like most. Luckily, I escaped into common sense.

Answer 2

I was raised a Mormon. Is that a Christian church? Some say yes, some say no.
I was in my twenties when I started searching for "the true church" and I found God and eventually he showed me that the Bible is true.
How do I treat others of a different belief? I could do much better, but I try.
I also see you are judging. You don't know if the people you have named are good or bad in Gods eyes.

Answer 3

I was raised as a church-go-er. When I became old enough to question religion I studied and searched and believed in God still.
Although I no longer believed in the type of religion I was raised in I prayed and found the truth.
I found things out about my earlier church's beginnings and found a church that is based on God's word and not man's.

I treat all people respectfully regardless of their belief but if they want to discuss religion and ask questions I will answer them straight from my heart.

Answer 4

I was brought up in the church. I attended church regularly and was happy in my faith until I turned 15. I was baptised when I was 13.

I didn't start going back to church until this year, and I'm 22. Its my belief that once you baptize yourself and give yourself to God, you ALWAYS belong to him, and no matter how long it takes, you'll come back to God.


If someone has a different belief than me, I can't do anything about that. The people I know, we respect each other enough not to try and 'convert' one another. We do have interesting conversations about of faiths and how different they are. I think its rather interesting to see how beliefs and faiths can vary from religion to religion.

Answer 5

I didn't grow up religious. My mother is a spiritual agnostic -- she doesn't acknowledge the existence of a Creator, but she believes in energy, spirits, Tarot, Chakras ... you get the picture. My father is a Pagan; he's been practicing for almost 30 years and follows mainly the Egyptian pantheon. My paternal grandparents have been Buddhists for about 10 years, but I'm not really sure what they followed previously. My maternal grandparents are Catholic, but they broke off all ties with my mother when she renounced her faith. I've never met them.

Neither of my parents ever brought me up into their religion. They basically told me that God was different things to different people, and I'd have to determine what God was for myself one day. I didn't honestly give it very much thought until I was about seventeen, when I started attending church with a friend. I wasn't sure about everything that went along with Christianity, but the teachings of Christ appealed me to first thing.

After doing alot of study, I found most of the Old Testament to be allegory and symbolic; and I found most of Paul's New Testament teachings to be hateful and contradictory to the teachings of Jesus that had become so important to me. Basically, I decided to put everything I wasn't sure of off to the side and try following Jesus's commandments -- to love God with all my heart, and to love other people as myself. And not to sound corny -- but wow, what a difference that made in my life. I felt close to God, and I felt a closer, better relationship with the world as well. After two years, I decided to follow Christ -- not the church, and not other followers. I've been happy and content ever since. Many other people don't quite understand my logic, and I've been accused of hypocrisy by other Christians, but I just continue to live by those two basic rules.

Answer 6

I went away to an NSF Student Science Training Program at New Mexico State University where several Christians witnessed to me!

Answer 7

there are finished books written in this subject. in short, initially "Christians" have been Jews who believed Jesus became the Messiah. over the years, disagreements between Jewish Christians and "universal" Jews introduced approximately a Jewish Christians forming a separate team. besides, Paul and others unfold the Christian message around the Mediterranean to non-Jews. those converts pointed out with being believers in Christ, and not being Jews or Jewish Christians. that's what i understand. each and all the suitable.

Answer 8

Well my mom is Mormon and my Dad is Methodist...when I was born we didn't go to a church. My aunt took my brother and I to the Church of the Brethren...my parents started coming too.

Church time was at church, religion never discussed except at Christmas and Easter...

after 10 years in that church I left...searching for the truth.

I stopped going to church all together for a while...

Now I'm back in the Christian church....so I was raised in it, but I chose it for myself...BTW I'm in a different church now than I was in while growing up...


Question 2---I had a friend who was recently coming to church, she doesn't believe it's true and stopped coming. She said she's going to keep praying but she quit because she doesn't believe it because she hasn't gotten an answer...

I told her that was fine as long as she never gave up hope that one day she would get an answer...

I dunno who coming is...THAT'S A LONG NAME!!!...

but I've seen k for him...and I'm not sure about phoenix...

Answer 9

I was raised up Catholic but never got Saved in that church.
I went out into the World when I got my car keys.
I bout' killed myself Living in the World and called out to GOD---HE Answered.

GOD is Real, and I do not need a Bible to Believe it Either!

GOD is Good!
satan is totally bad and lies about it by Blaming GOD for what he (satan) does.
satan Hates All Human Beings and Kills, Steals and Destroys.

I try not to Force AnyThing on AnyOne.

We all have the Right to Believe what we want to.
GOD (Jesus) will not Force You to Believe in HIM.

Answer 10

I was drawn to Christ by the Father.

Joh 6:44 No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

I am of the elect of God, not based on my works or actions, nor anything I would or would not do, but based on His grace, love and mercy.

Eph 1:4 even as He elected us in Him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and without blemish before Him in love,
Eph 1:5 predestinating us to adoption through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
Eph 1:6 to the praise of the glory of His grace in which He favored us in the One having been loved,
Eph 1:7 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of deviations, according to the riches of His grace

I was raised a Catholic, but wasn't saved or indwelt with the Spirit until about age 30.

I show all due respect to all people, as humans, created by God, but I do not have to respect everyone's beliefs, especially if their beliefs are anti-God, anti-Christian and anti-Bible.

Answer 11

the only way one person will come into christianity is to accept jesus as lord and savior. i used to be a catholic when i was a baby but then when i started growing up and looking for the truth i found it in a christian church. as i didnt know much about christ when i was little i only knew him as god but then as i started getting much a mature age i knew that i had much more to learn about christ himself accept him in your heart i invite you to go ahead you dont have to be in any religion to accept christ just accept him as lord and savior.you know what right now is a good time to do it.