What questions did you ask?

[DarkProphet]

Even if you were raised Christian (most likely) you must have asked questions before you fully accepted Christianity. What questions did you ask that convinced you afterward? Did the answer come from a purely Christian perspective? Have you ever sought answers to those same questions from a none Christian perspective? Have you ever asked a religious question that you did not get a satisfactory answer to? or worse no answer?

 

[TexasGirl06]

Even if you were raised Christian (most likely) you must have asked questions before you fully accepted Christianity. What questions did you ask that convinced you afterward? Did the answer come from a purely Christian perspective? Have you ever sought answers to those same questions from a none Christian perspective? Have you ever asked a religious question that you did not get a satisfactory answer to? or worse no answer?

I was not raised in a Christian home.
I was about 26 before I accepted Jesus as my Savior.

The big question that seemed to burn in my heart and in my mind..... was:
This life that I am living right now.....
do I do it all day and then....
do it over again the next day...
and so on.... ?

I wanted some genuine meaning to my life.
I wanted a purpose.

I know now....
that God put this seeking in me.
He was drawing me to himself.....
and then I started to open my eyes and ears to the teachings of the Bible.

I crawled, walked, skipped....and then ran .....
deeper into the knowledge of Him.

 

[childofGod31]

I was raised in a Christian family. I believed everything I was taught for the most part. Sometimes I asked questions and got unsatisfactory answers. (Many believers don't study the Bible and therefore don't have any answers).

But I always believed that God exists.

I would say that the reason I believe is just a feeling. I have a very strong feeling that I am right. Perhaps receiving answers to prayers helped, and hearing about many miraculous things (in answer to prayers). But most of all, I just feel more confident in my faith the more I study the Bible.

I read about non-Christian side (their answers to life) just so that I would know how to witness. There are no answers there to my questions.

We are sometimes called "brainwashed" and "delusional" but it feels to me like I am standing on the top of the mountain and non-Christians are standing on the bottom, and they can't see what I see. But I see as much as they see, and more.

 

[DarkProphet]

I was raised in a Christian family. I believed everything I was taught for the most part. Sometimes I asked questions and got unsatisfactory answers. (Many believers don't study the Bible and therefore don't have any answers).

What questions didn't get satisfactory answers?

I read about non-Christian side (their answers to life) just so that I would know how to witness. There are no answers there to my questions.

What questions have no answers from the non-Christian side?

 

[childofGod31]

Well, I have asked questions about the Bible (to explain what the Bible is talking about in a certain passage).


Also, "is there a possible explanation to the beginning of the world, other than "created by God"?"
Turns out - there isn't. Believing that the world began on its own is just as hard as believing that somebody created it. But if Jesus didn't come and didn't explain everything, I might have believed that way anyways. But since He explained everything, why believe something that doesn't sound more believable anyways? Jesus proved that he was supernatural by being resurrected. So he must have known something that we don't know.

Also, why did God have totally different rules for "before Christ" time and "after Christ" time. Why "tooth for tooth" in "before time" and "turn the other cheek" in "after Christ" time. (so far I don't know the answer, except that they lived in barbaric times and perhaps that was the only way to survive...)

Why is God angry with non-Christians even if he knows that they are in bondage to Satan and sin and don't know any better? - don't have the answer for that. But God said that he is just, righteous and good and that He cannot lie. So I believe there is a good explanation, but we are not to know it.

If I don't choose God, that means I am choosing Satan. And Satan's goal is to destroy everybody. Even those who obey him and serve him. (Just listen to the stories of those who had contact.) I certainly don't want to choose Satan. I dislike evil behavior and evil people and that's what Satan brings.

 

[ebia]

Even if you were raised Christian (most likely)

I was raised very much on the fringe.

you must have asked questions before you fully accepted Christianity.

probably

What questions did you ask that convinced you afterward?

I can't say my conviction came from anything anybody said, whether answering questions or otherwise.

Did the answer come from a purely Christian perspective? Have you ever sought answers to those same questions from a none Christian perspective? Have you ever asked a religious question that you did not get a satisfactory answer to? or worse no answer?

I don't expect to ever get to the point where all my (religious) questions have been satisfactoryly answered. I'd be rather scared by the thought that anbody thought they had got to that point.

 

[DarkProphet]

I can't say my conviction came from anything anybody said, whether answering questions or otherwise.

What about questions that you asked yourself and got answers to yourself?

I don't expect to ever get to the point where all my (religious) questions have been satisfactoryly answered. I'd be rather scared by the thought that anbody thought they had got to that point.

Many Christians I speak to feel that all their religious questions have been answered. Although I think that might be because they haven't asked enough questions.

 

[childofGod31]

Many Christians I speak to feel that all their religious questions have been answered. Although I think that might be because they haven't asked enough questions.

I agree with you on that.

I still have many questions. But I choose to believe that God is good (because He said so, and yes, I realize that it doesn't sound like much of a proof) and that whatever doesn't fit with that, is only because we really don't know what's going on.

Like when I start to watch a movie in the middle, I don't understand why a son giving his father a cold shoulder. He seems cruel. (But when I see what happened in the beginning, it makes sense.)

On the other hand, the Bible shed light on so many things.
1. God created us and had fellowship with the first people.

2. The Devil used to be a most important angel, but wanted to become like God and was removed from his position.

3. The Devil wanted to spite God and destroy his masterpiece (the people) so he tempted the first people and they disobeyed God and became separated from God because they became sinful. Death came into the world.

4. God sent his Son, Jesus, to die and to redeem the people (and to restore things to the original order, which is people fellowshipping with God.)

5. Meanwhile the devil is still the ruler of this world (I guess he became the ruler after the people sinned, maybe there was a bet or something, or some kind of a rule in Heaven about that....)

6. All the evil in the world is from the Devil. Even though God is more powerful, there must be some kind of a rule or a clause, or a purpose, that prevents Him from completely removing all the evil and to bring the good things into this life. Although He intervenes into believers' lives because they don't belong to the devil anymore. (But the devil still bites them to a point)

7. But God WILL bring the good things into this world yet. It will happen at the end of the age. Then Christ (and not the Devil anymore) will become the King of this world. And then there will be only good things here.


The bible also says that we will be co-rulers with Christ.

The bible says that Lion will lie with the lamb. ISA 11:8 The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child put his hand into the viper's nest.9 They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.


The Bible also says that trials come to us to test our faith and that if we endure and are faithful, will receive the greatest praise from God.

That God takes bad things in our lifes and turns them into good.

That God answers prayers. (and that is the most proof, because it still happens all the time)

The Bible also says that the god of this age, aka Satan, has blinded the minds of unbelievers. And that is why they don't see the light.

 

[ebia]

What about questions that you asked yourself and got answers to yourself?

I can't recall any particular such questions.

Many Christians I speak to feel that all their religious questions have been answered. Although I think that might be because they haven't asked enough questions.

Spot on.

 

[BereanTodd]

As I talked about in another of your threads DP, I was an atheist all my life, from an agnostic home, and so I had a great many questions I had to wrestle very deeply with. Among them (but I'm sure not an exhaustive list) would be ...

-does God even exist?
-how can a good God exist in light of the suffering in the world?
-can the Bible be trusted?
-who was Jesus?
-why are there so many hypocrites in the church?

We could keep going and going. I sought out answers from many sources, Christian and non-Christian. Ultimately after many long months of searching and seeking I found myself at the foot of the cross and I have never, ever regretted that descision, and I am more sure of my faith today than ever before.

 

[MelissaShae]

Even if you were raised Christian (most likely) you must have asked questions before you fully accepted Christianity. What questions did you ask that convinced you afterward? Did the answer come from a purely Christian perspective? Have you ever sought answers to those same questions from a none Christian perspective? Have you ever asked a religious question that you did not get a satisfactory answer to? or worse no answer?

Good thought provoking questions!!


I was raised Christian but not a strict Christian. So I knew about God and how Jesus died for my sins but I didn't know how loving God is. I also didn't know a lot about the bible and how wonderful God's word is.

I have asked some questions when talking or praying to God. Basically I asked him why I was here, what is my purpose, why am I so hard on myself, why did I go thru what I did in my childhood. And believe I got answers!! I turned to Christ and to the bible and found all the answers that I ever needed. God told me that I was here to serve the Lord and be a witness to his Word and that everything I endured in life was to make me stronger and more loving and a better Christian.

I have sought answers to any questions about Christianity or God in a non-Christian way a few times and I never really understood the answers and it never made me feel the way God makes me feel when I go to him with questions.

Any questions that have not been answered yet will be in God's time and I have learned that God will answer each question I have either in this life or the next and that is okay with me.

 

[Key]

Even if you were raised Christian (most likely) you must have asked questions before you fully accepted Christianity.

Ok.. I feel like the odd man out.. on that one.. because when I asked questions all I got was junk.. it was the Quiet Christians that made the biggest dent into me..

What questions did you ask that convinced you afterward?

Got noting here for you either.. I really wish I did.. to tell the truth...

Have you ever asked a religious question that you did not get a satisfactory answer to? or worse no answer?

In some cases the best answer was no answer, because that forced me to go to the source of where the answer would come from.. which was the Bible.. it was there that I found my answers.. to some of the really hard questions...

Simple Questions like Apologetics based stuff.. is the easy junk.. Contradictions and all the bunk are not "Conversion" questions, they are just challenge questions...

Conversion happens.. when we say "Ok.. what is in it for me, and how will my life change if I follow this"

That is an awesome question, and the only place I ever got a good answer.. was from the Bible...

God Bless

Key