Why are you a christian?

I had a personal life changing encounter with God over forty years ago, and was instantly delivered from depression when I believed in my heart that Jesus died for my sins. i felt a love and a peace and a joy come into my heart at that time that disarmed all my hostility against God; and I stopped my habitual lying and stealing and profanity and hating others that day, and I started loving God, and others as myself.

listen why these believe......

http://www.freecdtracts.com/testimony/mickey_robin...

http://www.freecdtracts.com/testimony/carolkornack...

http://www.iamsecond.com/

I struggled with this for years. I'm a skeptic, I'm practical, I don't believe something unless there is hardcore evidence for it.

But the more I researched Christianity, the more sense it seemed to make. For example, the geographical and historical data all backed it up. (Read The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel. it was pretty helpful.)

But all the hard scientific data in the world couldn't convince me because it just didn't feel right. I know it sound stupid but it just felt wrong. I was stressing over this for months. If it's true than it's important! I should be able to believe in this but I just can't! But then again if it's wrong then it's billions of idiots. I don't want to be an idiot. I don't want people to think I'm an idiot because I'm Christian. And then one day I was watching tv and I just realized that I feel God in me. Like I just feel him there. I don't know how to explain it. It's just that voice I always thought was my conscience? That's God.

And so the accumulation of the emotional feeling of God and the hard data to back it up is why I a a Christian. don't get me wrong, I still have doubts. I explore every single possible reason for why this whole crazy thing might not be true, but I can never find a reason for why it might not be true. I just keep finding more and more reasons for why it's true. I also see him answer my prayers and working in my life. I know it sounds crazy but it's not. Sometimes I just wake up and I feel so loved by him. I just know it's true, in my heart and in my mind.

There was a family of six children who burned and died in a van fire. The parents were on a tv newscast interview, half burnt and looking horrible. They talked with such confidence about their dead children being in heavn. It was something beyond just 'natural'. I wanted to have that kind of conviction too for my salvation in heaven forever.

It has been a long difficult road, but I am glad I am on it. There is no other way for me.

i was born a christian.

look, i know lots of people disrespect christians, but i think theyre like every other person.

some of them are complete loonatics though.

personally i think god exists and is there for every living person, even though some of them are screw-ups.

and trust me, I KNOW people think that christianity is a weird religion and makes you seem posessed by some spirit (that some believe don't exist). but i don't care. i have friends that are christian and we are just like every other, we don't refrain from swearing all the time (if some wonder), i actually swear a little much :(.

hope that kinda answers your question

It was either that or suicide. I was coming out of denial about being Gay. I loathed myself, deeply. So, I thought that I would trust God because what did I have to lose?

But the real story is, God wanted me, and I decided to go along with Him.

I used to be but then I realized the dark stinky slime of the world without god was really the liner of my anus as my christian head was so far up it.

because when i was 9 i got free breads from a church party and errypne was relly relly nice to me. baseaball has been verry verry good to me.