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Post by Josh on Jan 31, 2008 11:54:20 GMT -8
Just a question for those of you who are interested in apologetics of any stripe:
If you are a Christian or seriously considering becoming a follower of Jesus, what is the most convincing evidence for the truth of Christianity that you have encountered on your journey of faith?
Perhaps maybe it was different at the time you were considering becoming a Christian than it is now? If so, how has it changed?
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Post by christopher on Jan 31, 2008 12:43:11 GMT -8
For me it's the formation and endurance of the infant church even after it's leader (Jesus) was crucified.
In the context of that time and culture, I can think of no other reasonable explanation for this than a risen Christ.
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Post by Josh on Feb 6, 2008 13:43:33 GMT -8
Chris, that's a great one you don't hear too often.
That's a big theme in Wright's books that's pretty compelling.
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Post by sonlyte on Apr 18, 2008 18:33:51 GMT -8
For me it was the failure of any other system of beliefs to answer the questions adequately. Science taught me a lot, but it was not able to stand alone. God does. I became 99% sure of divine intervention to account for creative and organizing activity in nature. So then it was simply a choice between 1% and 99%. Technically I would have been happy with 70%, I got a bonus, and a certain amount of security.
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Post by michelle on Apr 19, 2008 7:19:02 GMT -8
For me, I always had this inherent feeling that God was there, even before I could identify who he was. I'm very fortunate to always have had an inclination towards God. I know that not everybody has that and so just because I have a feeling doesn't mean something is true, but I feel that's always helped me.
Other than my feeling, I think the ability for Christianity to be able to stand up to and hold it's own against some pretty harsh criticism. There really have been no good arguments that I've heard that can shake the footing of Christian claims.
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Post by Josh on May 6, 2008 16:10:07 GMT -8
Sonlyte, Philip Yancey writes, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, in The Jesus I Never Knew that there are basically two reasons he's remained a Christian: lack of any better alternatives and Jesus.  For me, it's been a one-two punch of reason and experience. On the reason side, I have been most impressed by fulfilled prophecy, scientific arguments about origins, philosophical arguments about the nature of good and evil, and especially by historical arguments for the authenticity of the resurrection and other new testament events. On the experience side, God has "shown up", as it were, unmistakably in my life too many times to discount. Being somewhat subjective, experience is something that is hard to share with others in a convincing manner, but it has been a crucial corollary to the rational side of my faith. |
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Post by codybateman on Jun 15, 2009 20:09:55 GMT -8
His resurrection.
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Post by Josh on Jun 24, 2009 17:01:11 GMT -8
Do you mean that you find the historical evidence for the resurrection to be convincing?
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Post by Josh on Aug 27, 2009 8:44:17 GMT -8
krhagan- I'm curious your input on this.
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Post by krhagan19 on Aug 27, 2009 12:20:19 GMT -8
Calling me out, As it were. We as a culture measure time itself based on the date of birth (well the year of birth, his date was not December 25th) of a non biological son of a simple carpenter of a rather poorly off mother who was distantly related to David. Of all of the people in History that we could measure time off of, that someone with so obscure a family, from such a remote part of the Roman Empire would who never traveled more than a few hundred miles from his home. That he would become the Chronometer for the entire civilized world. That is a Testimony to the power of God. I am not saying that I worship him because we base time off his birth. I am saying the fact that we base time off his birth is like the central cultural axis, to which a wheel is attached and a great many measures of faith are attached to that wheel.
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Post by Josh on Sept 25, 2009 20:15:57 GMT -8
Yeshuafreak- how about you?
Margot?
Meghan?
Nate?
Others?
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Post by yeshuafreak on Sept 26, 2009 7:56:20 GMT -8
lets see- the fact that its teachings have lasted so long is an amazing feat in itself. the proof for the resurrection of Yeshua is almost irrefutable, historically- even those outside the faith accepted that fact, but deny it on a basis of materialistic (not a degrading adj.) science. ummm... my experiences with him are pretty wild and prove to me that there is God, and none else.
shalom
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Post by aimee on Sept 30, 2009 21:15:15 GMT -8
I agree with yeshuafreak, it's my experiences of God that have grown my faith in him. 'Taste and see that the Lord is good' Ps 34:8
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