Why Are You A Christian?

[Hussain]

Thanks for your responses. Keep them coming.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Hussain' date='10 December 2009 - 05:14 PM' timestamp='1260486888' post='2017943']
Thanks for your responses. Keep them coming.
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Why are you not Christian?

[Servus_Mariae]

Upon scrutiny in study, I have found that the Church is logically, socially, philosophically and theologically consistent in truth, and through contemplative prayer I have been confirmed in this experience of the indwelling Trinity.

[Jaime]

If you hang out with Jesus and his mom enough, you just don't ever want to leave!

[Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam]

[quote name='Hussain' date='10 December 2009 - 02:21 PM' timestamp='1260469287' post='2017604']
Hey, so I'm new here. I want to get to know how Christians feel about their faith. So please provide one or two sentences outlining why you are a Christian.

Thanks
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Umm...I don't think that when one chooses a faith to live his life by it is ever for reasons that can be fit into one or two sentences unless they are very broad and thus say very little that can be discussed.

That being said, the reason I am Catholic is that I look around me and see the world and the people around me are broken, weak willed, and often cannot do the good they wish to do. Christians call it Original Sin. My parents were Catholic and I had been dragged to mass for the longest time so I started looking into the faith. This faith said that there was an absolute being who has been involved throughout human history and He wishes to restore our broken humanity. This also seemed to be the truth to me for many philosophic reasons. However, I am a material body and a spiritual soul united as one being. For that forgiveness and healing to be communicable to me and for me to know it, it must in some way show itself through the physical. The Church's sacramental theology is the only faith that satisfies this theological need as I understand it. This is why I am Catholic. It is philosophically whole and takes into account all parts of humanity (and all its consequences one of which I perceive as something like what Sacramental theology does) as well as reminds me that the Divine wishes to heal me, be in relationship with me, and created me. It also demands that I live this out and not simply treat it as a personal philosophy and gives me a community with a 2000 yr history do be a part of to help me.

Guess that was a bit more than one or two sentences haha.

Edited December 10, 2009 by Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

[mortify]

Because the Truth is beautiful.

[Maggyie]

[quote name='hot stuff' date='10 December 2009 - 07:22 PM' timestamp='1260487330' post='2017948']
If you hang out with Jesus and his mom enough, you just don't ever want to leave!
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I am a Christian because Jesus loved me first.

[cmotherofpirl]

Because nothing else out there is a rational choice, and we are rational creatures.

[add]

because my mother said so, God rest her soul

[elizabeth09]

I a Roman Catholic, because my parents choose that for me at a early age. There were some tough times where I need God in my life. Without Him, my life will be different.

[Gregorius]

When I began to stop the business of my life and look around me, I felt the presence of the Triune God, calling me to Himself through reality. The feeling is similar to somebody you love so much that you never want to leave that person's side, because that person loves you. I believe the Church is the extension of the Life and Ministry of Christ, and so I stay with the love of my life.

[OraProMe]

Q. Why are you a Christian?
A. I am a Christian by the grace of God.

-Catechism of Pope St. Pius X.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='OraProMe' date='10 December 2009 - 11:37 PM' timestamp='1260506274' post='2018165']
Q. Why are you a Christian?
A. I am a Christian by the grace of God.

-Catechism of Pope St. Pius X.
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Good one!

[tinytherese]

Long story short I channel flipped to EWTN in seventh grade, in high school read The Case for Christ, and http://www.catholic.com/.

[OraProMe]

[quote name='Resurrexi' date='10 December 2009 - 11:40 PM' timestamp='1260506459' post='2018166']
Good one!
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I knew that you'd like that

[OraProMe]

[quote name='tinytherese' date='10 December 2009 - 11:42 PM' timestamp='1260506555' post='2018169']
Long story short I channel flipped to EWTN in seventh grade, in high school read The Case for Christ, and http://www.catholic.com/.
[/quote]

I might get that, is it good? What's it deal with? I had "this is the faith" by Canon Francis Ripley ages ago but threw it out

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='OraProMe' date='10 December 2009 - 11:47 PM' timestamp='1260506849' post='2018175']
I might get that, is it good? What's it deal with? I had "this is the faith" by Canon Francis Ripley ages ago but threw it out
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I wish you'd have sent it to me instead.

[Hussain]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='10 December 2009 - 07:18 PM' timestamp='1260487090' post='2017944']
Why are you not Christian?
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Good question. I am not because (don't take this the wrong way) it doesn't make logical sense to me. The 3 in 1 and 1 in 3 Godhead. I've heard all of the analogies too, the eggshell/eggwhite/yolk analogy, the ice/water/vapor analogy etc, and how it's impossible to fully grasp this idea because we're like a 2-d square trying to understand a 3d cube etc etc. My idea about Jesus, pbuh, is pretty simple, he was a great Prophet and his mother was one of, if not the greatest women to walk this earth. So a counter question, does the trinity make sense to you guys? Logically?

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Hussain' date='11 December 2009 - 12:14 AM' timestamp='1260508458' post='2018200']
Good question. I am not because (don't take this the wrong way) it doesn't make logical sense to me. The 3 in 1 and 1 in 3 Godhead. I've heard all of the analogies too, the eggshell/eggwhite/yolk analogy, the ice/water/vapor analogy etc, and how it's impossible to fully grasp this idea because we're like a 2-d square trying to understand a 3d cube etc etc. My idea about Jesus, pbuh, is pretty simple, he was a great Prophet and his mother was one of, if not the greatest women to walk this earth. So a counter question, does the trinity make sense to you guys? Logically?
[/quote]

The mystery of the Trinity is a truth that is above human reason.

[Hussain]

So it does not make sense to you?