2007-10-23 04:39:25 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I was born into a Christian family.
2007-10-23 04:41:58 · answer #1 · answered by slave2art 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
My father was a "Christian", but I liken him to the Pharisees and the Saducees. He was always, "Look how good I am, look how lowly you are, I am heaven bound, you are going straight to hell, blah, blah ,blah....". He said a lot of hateful and hurtful things to all of us (my parents divorced when I was 6, so I didn't live with him for long). When I was about 12 or so, I knew that I believed in a God, but I didn't know who He was or where to find Him. So, I began a search. I visited different types of churches, studied different religions, read religious texts, etc. I searched and read and studied for about 6 years, but couldn't make sense of it all. Then, when I was 19 and in college I went on a retreat with some of my friends. I wasn't really seeing any point in my being at the retreat, because it didn't apply to me on any level. The last day we were supposed to spend at the lake and hanging out, but God did a wonderful thing. He sent an incredible storm and we were stuck in the gym all day. We were all told to find a quiet place to be with God. I wasn't a Christian so I decided to go behind the stage area and take a nap. I opened up a cabinet to kind of hide myself and it was full of Bibles. I said, "OK, God, this is your last shot, if your real, then show me that you are." I decided that I would open the Bible and read the first verse of the first full chapter on the page that I opened it to. It opened to Psalm 59 and the first words were "Rescue me O Lord." I fell to me knees and accepted Christ as my savior and have never been the same since. The rest of my family now shuns me and sees me as the enemy that has followed the path of my Dad, but I am not judgmental and condemning like he was. I feel that I am a sinner among sinners, saved by grace and am very humbled by that. I am no better than anyone else on this earth. The only thing that I have that is great or worthy of praise is He that is in me, I am nothing without Him.
2007-10-23 04:56:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are a few reasons I became Christian. I was raised by someone with a strong faith in God. I needed and wanted unconditional love. I strongly need a set of rules to put structure on this world. For all of those reasons I explored many faiths and only Christianity met all of my needs. Once I decided to fully try Christianity, specifically do what the Bible says which is to "Test me and know that I am real", I have never found any reason to believe God or His Word are false. My life is not easy, everything I want does not fall into my lap, but no REAL need of mine has ever gone unmet. I am a Christian because the Father, Son and Holy Spirit have proven not just that they/He are real, but also that they love me and desire only the best for me.
2007-10-23 04:45:59 · answer #3 · answered by Rebeckah 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I had lived far away from my children for about a year, slowly realizing that my ex was not going to "snap out of it" and I just decided one day to give up everything in the place that had been my home for 7 years to be near my children. I had a great community of friends, a job and house that I loved, and was about to begin teaching art history in college ( a goal that I had worked many years to attain). I gave all of that up to move to a remote rural "community" in upstate NY where I was definitely a "fish out of water". I was a committed pagan but had been very active in the UCC as a teenager and studied early Christian art in the Roman Empire for my Master's thesis. It was just before Christmas when I made the move and my daughter started asking questions about the nativity, baby Jesus, etc. I started reading the Bible again (I'd read it twice in its entirity when I was younger). I realized that I had a lot more respect for Christianity than I'd thought. I'm able to bring both faith and reason to it this time around.
2007-10-23 05:04:01 · answer #4 · answered by metanoia 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Another good question would be can they think of a time when they were not christian and made a conscience decision to become christian. There are some who can give an answer to that question and there are some who cannot. However, it is an interesting thing to think about. I have never met an atheist who was not somehow a part of some religion at some time or another.
2007-10-23 04:43:40 · answer #5 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I was raised a Christian, but it wasn't until college that I made the conscious choice to worship God in a Christian way and to live according to the teachings of Jesus. During the first semester of my sophomore year in college, I went on a campus ministry retreat that really enforced my belief in God and made me aware of God's love and the presence of the Holy Spirit. So, I like to say that it was the retreat that made me a Christian.
2007-10-23 04:47:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I was raised in a protestant church from age 2-12. I quit after the preacher asked me when I wanted to be baptized.
So I knew that wasn't the right church, so I was looking for others. I went to the mosque near my town, some Catholic churches, methodist, pentecostal, and baptist churches....
I didn't believe any of it.
I was agnostic for 2 years.
But through all the time LDS missionaries kept coming to my house to visit my mom(who is an inactive LDS) and for 5 years they kept telling me how they knew it was true, but I never believed it.
One night, I took the book back to my room and I prayed to God telling Him that I would do anything if I could just know it was true. When I opened the book(without looking) I put my finger to the page. When I looked at what I pointed on it was Mosiah 2:34 and my finger was on the phrase "to render to Him all that you are and have to God"
2007-10-23 04:46:49 · answer #7 · answered by Love Yahoo!!! is a prince 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was born into a fundamental Christian family. I was baptized as a teenager, then fell away from God in my 20's. I still believed in him, but I was angry with him. I have had several amazing revelatory experiences in my life. I now believe and am very spiritual.
I had to cleanse my mind from all the dogma that had been embedded into my belief system as I grew up. I'm grateful that I did. I have a strong personal relationship with God.
2007-10-23 04:56:25 · answer #8 · answered by Soul Shaper 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well I am not a christian. but my opinion no disrespect to anyone they are not all a bunch of sinners. I notice the people that always claim they are so sanctified were something else before they were saved. the woman were ho's and on crack or something. the men were low life dead beat dads in and out of jail smoking crack etc and then there's the two faced ones who don't either category above but they have no integrity and are liars. ex: this lady i know is a minister, but she thinks her daughter is better than everyone and she looks down on people. she should know more than anyone NOT TO JUDGE. and she lies alot too.
2007-10-23 04:45:19 · answer #9 · answered by renosgirl2006 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My best friend became a Christian. You have to understand that this is a woman known for her intellect. Extremely intelligent and extremely well educated. She was writing an article for an anthology about C.S, Lewis and was consulting a local pastor because she wanted to understand the theology behind his work. She wanted to understand what a believer would see. In the course of this intellectual exercise, she became a believer herself. And then she bugged me to death to at least attend her church once. I finally broke down because there were some things going on in my life and I was saved that day.
2007-10-23 04:44:33 · answer #10 · answered by Sharon M 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋