Why Choose Christianity (or One of the Other Possibilities) as Your Religion?

I'm always answering questions like this on evcforum, but oh, well, here goes again.I was raised Catholic, but I gave up on it at 13. I read a book called You Were Born Again to Be Together by Dick Sutphen back in the 70's, and I became a New Ager, though I don't think it was called New Age back then. I believed in reincarnation, ordered the Tibetan book of the dead, and became very interested in everything that would be considered New Age today. (I really liked Richard Bach's stuff.)My first boss in the military at age 20 was the assistant pastor (part-time, obviously) of a black Pentecostal church. He was very outspoken, and we argued every day. I consistently won the arguments, but it never bothered him.One day he invited me to church and I went. I went through a pretty stunning experience there. I had also been reading the Bible, looking for contradictions to show to him, so I was becoming familiar, again, with the Gospels. Three days after that experience at my boss' church, I went to another, had an even more powerful experience, and I've been a follower of Christ ever since--about 22 years.

Thomas Paine: what an amazing man....Thanks for the link. I will probably find myself reading it several times.

A Religion is only as good as the book that its basing its philosophy on..Its whole foundation..So basically a rightness of a religion is determined by the credentials of its founder & by the divine inspiration of its text book..And when your basing it on the Bible which Christians do then your right because Christians dont reintepret Gods word...What is the proof of the bible? Well i could write for pages but ill only write 4 major ones..UNITY-Written by 40 or so men,most of which did not know each other,several continents,over a period of 1600yrs..Almost 2 milleniums..And they all came to together to make a perfect book without error or contradiction.This same book went on to be the foundation of law,morality and meaning of lifePROPHECY-In Isaiah 41:23 God challenges other religions to prove that they are the way.And to this day no book in the world has correctly fortold the future hundreds of times without mistakes.Buddha,Hindu,Muslims do not any contained writings of a fullfilled prophecy.(This is good evidence that there is a greater mind than man with guided the writings of the book)SCIENCE-Scientific information that ppl only discovered recently or centuries after..Everything from the earth is round(Isaiah 40:22),earch is suspended in space without support (Job 26:7)etc etc..The list literally goes on and on..(The Bible is only at Conflicts with Evolution,But remember Evolution is the science of Humanist..Not Science in general.Historical science is very different to practical science we see everyday..Historical is based on presuppositions,frameworks etc..A creationists and evolutionists are both scientist.ARCHAEOLOGY-Archaelogoy discoveries have confirmed the Bibles historical accuracy.In fact it was quite possible the first and earliest writings of mankind (Showing the source of the earth right to the end).All jewish,Israeli history is all confirmed in the Bible.This of course gives proof that the things in the Bible did happenThis is just a small pinch of what the Bible really is.The Bible is indeed the word of God without error...The inexahaustable depth of the book.Everyother book can be mastered in one or 2 reads expect the bible which can be read hundreds of times and studies thousands of times..So my point was that ppl become christians because were based on the Bible not a false religon that came after...

almeydaAs a Christian, I would really have to very strongly disagree with you.Christianity has to be more than the Bible, if for no other reason than there really is NO one Bible.The Bible has been written, re-written, interpreted (and of course Christians interpret the Bible), if filled with absurdities and contradictions, and was written by an untold host of people, the contents were set (as was most Christian Dogma) for political and economic reasons.It is not the foundation of law, morality and the meaning of life although if you actually pay attention to what Jesus said, you can devolve law, morality and a very good foundation.There is no conflict between the Bible and Evolution, IMHO, but I have yet to find any Science in the Bible.To say that Christianity is as good as the Bible is to say that the territory is as good as the map and that is simply silly.The Map is not the Territory.

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K well i wont argue with you but thats my opinion..If you havent found any science in the Bible then ill help you out a bit and let you know that there is science in the Bible...These are jus a few1. Hydrologic cycle- Genesis 1:6,7 (perfect conditions for life)2.Engineering - Genesis 6:15 (It was not until the 1900s that comparable sized ships were constructed)3. Air has weight - Job 28:25 (Job was written 2000bc,Yet People thought air was weightless until 1643)4.Light moves - Job 38:19,20 (Newton & Huygens first confirmed this in the 1600s)5. Time had a beginning - 2 Timothy 1:9,Titus 1:2,1 Corinthians 2:7 (This general relativity theory cause Einstien to a complete switch from Athiesm to some kind of creator)6. Stars are countless - Jeremiah 33:22 (For centuries ppl thought there were 1100 stars etc.Astronomers now acknowledge that it would take 100 trillion yrs to count all the stars making them countless)7. Ocean currents - Isaiah 43:16,Psalms 8:8 (Matthew Fontaine Maury earned the reputation of "Father of oceanography" after discovering mapping ocean currents for better sea travel efficiency in 1855)8. Global Wind patterns - Ecclesiastes 1:6 (Only with advanced satellite technology have scientist been able to accurately define global wind currents.Yet in Ecclesiastes written 1000 yrs before Christ describes a repeated cycle of wind)9.2nd law of thermodynamics -Psalm 102:25,26 ,Isaiah 51:6,Matthew 24:35,Romans 8:20-22,1 John 2:17,Hebrews 12:27 (This was discovered in 1850.Things run down hill not uphill as Evolution suggests)10.Atoms & Molecules -Hebrews 11:3 (Science caught up with Democritus theory that matter was made of invisible particles in 1803)11.Circumsision - Genesis 17:11 (In the mid 1900s research showed the risk of infections,cancers etc that could be carried in the foreskin of uncircumsized males)12. Sterilization - Numbers 19,Leviticus 13,Leviticus 11:29-40,Levitcus 15,Leviticus 12,Leviticus 6:8-13(Another biblical insight which was not understood until the late 1800s,Everything from washing hands to handling the dead)& Theres probably thousands more i havent discovered yet.But we can see the divine nature of the Bible.Telling us things that werent known at the time

You seem to have forgotten the great flood...

This might best be persued in a new topic. If you want to you might propose one. I think it will take this thread way off course.

I tried to make a new thread but it said i didnt have authorisation...Is that cause im new to the board or what?

New threads need to be posted in proposed topics, which when approved are moved to the apporporiate area of the forum.