Christians: What is the biggest reason for believing in your religion?

Truth. What would be believed if thought untrue? A broader view of life beyond economic utility and social customs. A reason to love and be good. A reason to avoid evil.

There are many people who believe in my religion. I'm only guessing at what the biggest reason is. Some have put very little thought into it and some, I'm sure, think thoughts beyond my understanding.

Personally the way my religion deals with the complexity and ambiguity in life and avoids the mind-numbing black and white a rules based life is a selling point. It works.

The miracles I've seen and the gift that is everlasting life through Jesus Christ.

I don't believe in religion I believe in God

Because He is

historical evidence

The things I've experienced in life do not allow me to believe any different. I can't deny the existence of Satan or Demons or Hell. I lost the ability to wonder if these things existed or not. They do. I'd be lying through my teeth if I dared say anything different. As for planned, God does have a plan for every life, but we don't have to adhere to it. We can say the heck with it and do our own thing if we'd like. Does everything happen for some clandestine reason in my opinion? No, but God is supreme and his will supersedes.

Because it is true.
Christ rose on the third day.

Those who think seeking and following Christ is just "comforting" are not seeing the whole picture.


"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end;
if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth
only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. "
- C. S. Lewis

God is. We love his word, will and his every way. He's my bread when I'm hungry. He's my shelter from troubled winds. He's my anchor in life's ocean. And not least of all he calls me friend! (Jhn 15:15)

He is our Rock!

Deu 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

"My Anchor"

You're the Lord Almighty
Your every word is sure
And in Your love unfailing
I'm safe when oceans roar
Yes, I'm safe when oceans roar
My anchor, forever
My shelter within the storm
You're my deliverer
You never falter
You're the rock I stand on
Here within the struggle
And every crashing wave
You are more than able
Your hand is strong to save
I hold on to You
And You hold on to me
Jesus, I hold on to You
And You hold on to me

My biggest reason for believing in Christianity is the evidence for Jesus Christ historically and the way he has worked in my life.

http://www.uncover.org.uk/questions/history-in-the-new-testament/
http://www.uncover.org.uk/questions/whats-the-evidence-outside-the-bible-for-jesus-life-and-teaching/
http://www.uncover.org.uk/questions/can-we-believe-the-bibles-account-of-the-resurrection/

Put simply, I believe in Christianity because I think it's true. That is the only reason.

Because our God is the only one TRUE God. His name is JEHOVAH. - Exodus 3:15; Psalm 83:18.

He only can give us everlasting life.

The idea of being religious never really appealed to me as much as having a relationship with God.

(*SIGH*) Sadly, This, or similar, kind of question is asked - AND ANSWERED - many, Many, MANY times already, but most of the people who ask this kind of question don't really want answers, they just want excuses to continue living a sinful, immoral lifestyle, and they need to justify their immorality.

But let's put the hook out and see if the question has been asked in sincerity this time.
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In the Bible, Jesus claimed equality with God. He also said that He is the way, the truth, and the life, and that no man comes to the Father but by Him.

Then He said that if you REALLY want to know if His teachings came from God (implying the existence of said God), then "OBEY THESE COMMANDS (follow these instructions), and you SHALL know (one way OR the other)" (Referring to the Sermon on the Mount, beginning in the 5th chapter of the gospel according to Matthew)

This is an objective "litmus" test that Jesus gave, and He said nothing at all about having faith or believing. If you really want to know if Jesus really IS the Son of God (the God who is there), (er – DO you really want to know?) then read and obey the Sermon on the Mount.

If Jesus never existed, then nothing will happen.

If Jesus was a liar, then nothing will happen.

If Jesus was a lunatic, then nothing will happen.

If Jesus was just another ordinary man, then nothing will happen.

If the Bible is nothing more than the writings of some crazy bronze-aged, goat-herding cave men as the atheist mockers keep insisting, then nothing at all will happen.

In other words, to the atheists who claim there is no evidence, PUT UP OR SHUT UP! Actions speak louder than words, so put your money where your mouth is! Take the challenge Jesus gave and prove Him wrong!

(Note: For anyone who flat out rejects this test, I have to remind them of some other words Jesus said. Jesus said that the reason people reject God is “because they are evil (their deeds are evil), and they love darkness (i.e. they love their sins and immorality), and they hate the light (i.e. they hate Truth)!” The only reason they don't believe in God is because they don't WANT to believe in God, and for no other reason, and their mind is set in concrete, and their theme song is "Don't confuse me with Truth; my mind's already made up!")

In his famous book “Mere Christianity”, C. S. Lewis makes the following observation: “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great moral teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

Everything is planned? News to me. I make my own decisions and live my own life. I believe in my religion because its founder plainly demonstrated that He was God, by constantly doing things only God could do, and because He promised the one Church He founded the fullness of truth.

It makes them feel good inside.


My answer is confirmed, it makes them feel good inside.


"God's love"
"Everlasting life"
"Salvation from sin"



Yeah, so it makes you feel good inside.

None, we should be believers in God.
John 4:23, 24
23 Nevertheless, the hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshippers will worship the Father with spirit and truth, for indeed, the Father is looking for ones like these to worship him.+ 24 God is a Spirit,+ and those worshipping him must worship with spirit and truth.”+

God is love.

There is no reason to believe my religion. What you should believe is the Bible and God. There is only one reason to believe that, and it is because it's true. However, I realize it's man's nature to reject the truth, so I don't blame you for walking away from it.

I think it's cool that it's all in code and those without God's holy spirit can't understand it.

"12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.

13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:"

Because Christ in mercy called me from my sin and has given me hope, peace, comfort strength, passion, purpose, grace, love, and guidance ever since.

The need to feel that ever one else is wrong in their choice!

I have experienced God many times in my life. I know God exists.

There is no reason apart from fear.