Why are you Christian?

Question

Actually I mean that have you accepted Trinity on basis of your own understanding or it was that you were born in Christian family.I guess so it was written in your destiny that you were born as Christian orelse Trinity is so irration that it is impossible for an intelligent man to accept it.

Answer 1

"Are you a Christian just because you were born to parents who were able to fill your head with teachings about Jesus before you were able to learn about other religions?"

This accusation gets brought up a lot. The thing is, whether a person grows up in a Christian family is irrelevant. All people come to a point in there life when they have all the religions thrown onto the table infront of them and they have to decide which one is true and which of the rest are lies. If there is even one religion that contradicts another one, both cannot be right. You have to come to your own understanding of which one is right. Your parents can't do that for you. They can try to persuade you(that's all anyone else can do), but in the end you're the one that comes to your conclusion.

Makes sense doesn't it? It is common sense that there are lots of Christian parents that have children that are not Christians. So, just because they are Christians doesn't mean their children will turn out that way.

Answer 2

I was born into a Christian family but i have thought about why i am a Christian and it is because it is the religon that makes the most sense and yes i accept the trinity Christians accept the Trinity if you think only Catholics do you are WRONG!!

Answer 3

Well, i was born into a family where my dad doesnt really believe in anything, and my mom was raised a catholic but has been a christian since she was 19. So, since i never see my dad, and i prefer not to I have been brought up as a Christian but that is my own will. My mom says that it is my decision on what religon i want to be and i have visited alot of differnt types of church's with friends but I prefer to stay Christian considering this is what i strongly believe in.

Answer 4

Why are you not? Is it because you believe you are the greatest gift there is to mankind? Or is it your self-centeredness makes you have a problem beliveing in something greater than yourself? Or is it that you blindly believe everything that you are told/taught? Maybe your arrogance is holding you back or maybe just your lack of acceptance. Take heed to the following quote, you might actually learn something. "There is a principle which is a bar to all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation."--Herbert Spencer
Stop following and start leading, by example.

Answer 5

I studied the Trinity for several years, and I accept it. I actually converted to a strong Trinitarian denomination. I guess that makes me unintelligent!

But I can tell you this. If you cannot define the following terms, then you do not understand the Trinity: ousia, hypostasis, physis, prosopon, pragma, energeia, dynamis.

Answer 6

When I was 6 or 7 my parents started going to church. Even though I didn't like it, the Holy Spirit still entered my heart. I didn't really understand the Christian faith until I was 13 or 14.

Answer 7

what?I don't know what you're talking anout when you
say Trinity but
I am Christian.Baptist actually.
I'm 14.
I was born into a Christian family but
that's not why I am one.I chose that.
You choose that sort of thing.I know
plenty of people who are in Christian
families that aren't Christian.
Now for my answer/opinion,
I am Christian because I am a child of God,
his creation.I love God with all my heart.
He's always there for me.Prayer is important.
God is the Savior.The master.The King.

Answer 8

I was not born into a "Christian" family.

In fact, we were always taught that Jesus was a liar, possibly crazy, but above all, very definitely dead.

In my early to mid-20's, I found myself at a low point in my life.

A young man asked me if he could pray for me, and even though I didn't like the idea, it occurred to me that it wouldn't matter, since dead people don't answer prayers, anyway.

Well, Bryan prayed, and God answered!

I had an encounter with Jesus Christ that has changed my life forever, and now I KNOW that Jesus is the Son of God!

Since then, of course, I have studied the Bible, and when you ask questions about the Tri-une nature of God, I can categorically tell you that it IS Biblical, from Genesis 1:1 ("In the beginning, Elohim (pleural)") right through Revations ("I am the first and the last"), I see it.

Perhaps it seems irrational to you because you have a closed mind to it, but I even see it in God's creation!

Look at time - you have Past, Present and Future.

Matter (using H20 as an example), consists of solids (ice), liquids (water) and gasses (steam).

Space is three-dimensional with Length, Width, and Height.

Even man, made in God's very own image, is tri-une in nature with a Body, Soul, and Spirit.

Isaiah 48:16 shows the Tri-une nature of God clearly:

Isa 48:15-17: "I, I, have spoken; yea, I have called him; I brought him and he makes his way succeed. (16) Come near to Me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning. From its being, I was there; and now the Lord Jehovah, and His Spirit, has sent Me. (17) So says Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I am Jehovah your God who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go."

You see Jehovah saying that Jehovah and His Spirit has sent Me (Jehovah).

Again, Genesis 1:1 starts with "In the beginning Elohim (God-Pleural) created the heavens and the earth."

Moving down, it says "And the SPIRIT of Elohim hovered over the face of the deep"

And again, "And Elohim (the VOICE of Elohim) said, 'Let there be light' and there was light."

Farther down in the same chapter, it continues by saying "And Elohim said, 'Let US make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness.' "

Of course in Isaiah, we read how God says "I am the first, and I am the last", then in Revelations, you see Jesus saying "I am the first, and I am the last."

And many, Many, MANY more Scriptures that confirm this, such as John 1:

John 1:1-5: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2) He was in the beginning with God. (3) All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being. (4) In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. (5) And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it."

and further down the same chapter, it continues:

John 1:14: "And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and of truth."

So, what is irrational? Is it irrational to believe the Scriptures, or is it irrational to deny them?

Answer 9

When God sent his first word to Moses, the first scriptures God gave to man he gave us the truth of who he is.
When Christ came to this world he told of his purpose and demonstrated that he was the Messiah, the lamb of God that Abraham and Moses and Isaiah spoke of.
Jesus explained that no man knows him unless that man knew the Father and no man knows the Father but the one who knows the Son.
Jesus said he and the Father were one.
If man chooses not to believe God then why claim to worship God at all?
Why not simply accept the fact that you don't believe God and therefore don't be believe in God?
The truth is God reveals who he is to those who love and seek the truth,
Man does not come to know God by his own wisdom but by trusting and seeking God.
We do not come to know God by molding him into what we believe...but by seeking him according to who he is.
God is real if he were a lie we made up this might work.

Answer 10

You are not born a Christian every denomination requires itsadherents to declare they are Christians, even those born to Christian parents.

I see no poing in arguing the rest of it, its a matter of faith. If you dont believe what we do, thats your right.