How I became a Christian... Part 1
I think that if you want evidence of the existence of God, but come at it with a closed mind, ready to tear to shreds anything that comes your way, you won't accept anything as being legitimate evidence. They say "seeing is believing" - but I don't necessarily think that's true.
However, in response to a very interesting twitter "conversation" with a very interesting man, I have been prompted to provide my own personal evidence of the existence of God.The first thing I want to say is that I wasn't raised in a Christian family. I wasn't raised with any religious or non-religious beliefs imposed on me. I knew nothing about Christianity, and nothing about atheism. Yet when the subject of religion was brought up in school or later, at university, I laughed. Christianity and people who said they believed in God made me laugh, because the whole idea of the existence of God seemed preposterous to me. I said I was an atheist, but I wasn't. I hadn't ever researched the person of Jesus, or the existence of God, so I wasn't an atheist. I was just naive. It wasn't until I was 19, in my second year of university, that a Christian friend started talking to me about God. I was completely opposed to the idea of the existence of God. She gave me a leaflet that explained who Jesus was, why he came to earth (historically true - there is more historical evidence of Jesus than there is of Julius Caesar!), why he died, and how he came back to life. I had never read about Jesus before. It opened my eyes. But I still outright rejected it. I could not see how there could be any way that God could be real...
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