Why are you a Christian?

[Nihilist Virus]

If A), feel free to share.

If B), share at your own risk - your arguments might belong in the apologetics forum.

 

[Serving Zion]

If A), feel free to share.

If B), share at your own risk - your arguments might belong in the apologetics forum.

Both, actually.

 

[Neogaia777]

If A), feel free to share.

If B), share at your own risk - your arguments might belong in the apologetics forum.

Both...

But most importantly, I love and love God, cause of the evidence that he first loved me, first, before I came to know and try to be love, I realized would only be possible by seeing his great love for me first...

And I see it and try to be it now...

God Bless!

 

[Tolworth John]

The evidence for the resurrection is overwhelming.

 

[redleghunter]

If A), feel free to share.

If B), share at your own risk - your arguments might belong in the apologetics forum.

In your opinion does "A" negate "B"; "B" negate "A"?

 

[Nihilist Virus]

Hmmm, so far it's a perfect split. Any predictions on future responses?

 

[Albion]

In your opinion does "A" negate "B"; "B" negate "A"?

I was thinking along similar lines.

If A refers to experiences like thinking you've seen an apparition or heard the voice of God or experienced a miracle healing, that's one way of looking at it. BUT is A meant only to refer to our upbringing? Those are experiences, too, and most of us grew up in Christian communities.

 

[-V-]

Both. Why does one option preclude the other?

 

[Nihilist Virus]

Both. Why does one option preclude the other?

That's fine if that's your answer. I just wanted to keep it all simple.

 

[Nihilist Virus]

I was thinking along similar lines.

If A refers to experiences like thinking you've seen an apparition or heard the voice of God or experienced a miracle healing, that's one way of looking at it. BUT is A meant only to refer to our upbringing? Those are experiences, too, and most of us grew up in Christian communities.

Hmm, I never considered childhood indoctrination to be a valid reason for believing anything.

 

[Albion]

You can probably still edit the poll to allow multiple votes if that's your wish.

 

[Albion]

Hmm, I never considered childhood indoctrination to be a valid reason for believing anything.

I'd lean that way myself but, after all, if we'd grown up in Saudi Arabia, we probably would not be nearly as open to the Gospel or find it as persuasive as we do, having grown up in a basically Christian society with Christian parents.

 

[Nihilist Virus]

You can probably still edit the poll to allow multiple votes if that's your wish.

I'm really just curious which reason is more common among Christians. Adding that option won't tell me much of anything and I'd rather not actively encourage it. It's fine if it's your answer, but I am interested in nudging people to vote one way or another.

 

[Albion]

Ah, well maybe you can edit it to make that clarification ("which do you consider to have been MORE important....?")

 

[Nihilist Virus]

I'd lean that way myself but, after all, if we'd grown up in Saudi Arabia, we probably would not be nearly as open to the Gospel or find it as persuasive as we do, having grown up in a basically Christian society with Christian parents.

Yep. Indoctrination does not allow for you to consider why something is true. It just asserts something is true. So it's not a reason for belief.

 

[Nihilist Virus]

Ah, well maybe you can edit it to make that clarification ("which do you consider to have been MORE important....?")

I read every response. The poll is just for convenience. In fact I'm interested in the response you're giving and I wouldn't have gotten it with your suggested wording.

 

[Albion]

Yep. Indoctrination does not allow for you to consider why something is true. It just asserts something is true. So it's not a reason for belief.

OK, but I don't think that what I was referring to was, strictly speaking, indoctrination. Even atheists who have grown up in a Christian society have made their choice partly on their experiences with religion and all the evidences of it that's all around us.

 

[Tigger45]

Well if A = a subjective means to believing in Christ and B = an objective means then I am a bit of both. First I've always intuitively 'knew' there was a higher power 'God' but it wasn't until I heard the Gospel properly preached that I found my calling to be a Christian.

 

[Albion]

I read every response. The poll is just for convenience. In fact I'm interested in the response you're giving and I wouldn't have gotten it with your suggested wording.

Yes, but I didn't feel that I was able to answer the poll itself as it stands.

You're going on what I've chosen to add in several posts. Most people who answer a poll don't also explain their vote that way.

 

[Nihilist Virus]

OK, but I don't think that what I was referring to was, strictly speaking, indoctrination. Even atheists who have grown up in a Christian society have made their choice partly on their experiences with religion and all the evidences of it that's all around us.

Well unless your parents constantly remind you that Christianity is just a belief and that you are free to believe what you want without judgment, or unless they provide arguments and counterarguments for and against Christianity, then filling an undeveloped mind with ideas (which are coming from the child's ultimate authority) is indoctrination.