I am a Christian because…

Excerpt taken from: There is only one God

I am a Christian because….

I am a Christian because the Bible is too good to have been a fabrication of man. It had to have been orchestrated – by God. The contents of the Bible (66 books) were written over a period of hundreds of years, by writers who did not know the others nor collaborate with them – separated by hundreds of miles – and yet everything ties together without any discrepancies, and Jesus the Messiah fulfilled over 360 prophecies written by these writers. Impossible, except by God.

I am a Christian because of tangible evidence of the divinity of Christ. He fulfilled over 360 prophecies written about the coming Messiah – way too many to have been completed by chance. Christ was God in human form.

God came down to earth in the form of a man, as the Christ (the Messiah):

• to be able to die in our place
• to be able to give us pardons for our sinfulness
• to be able to satisfy God’s sense of justice
• to turn away God’s wrath against evil
• to be able to set us free from our death sentence
• to be able to make us perfect before the Great Judge on Judgement Day
  

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I am a Christian because I personally choose to repent of my way – and yield my life to God’s way, through Jesus Christ. I accepted God’s free gift of forgiveness, eternal life with God.

I am a Christian because God enabled me to have the faith to believe Him, to take Him at His word. I could not have chosen Him – if He had not chosen me first.

I am a Christian because Jesus said He was the only way to God the Father (John 14:6), that nobody comes to God – except through acceptance of Christ. Even if I wanted to, which I do not, I could not have earned God’s acceptance no matter what I tried to do.

*Excerpt taken from: There is only one God

John 6:35  Jesus uses the words “I am” over twenty times in this Gospel. Especially memorable are those places where “I am” is followed by a metaphor that declares His deity and His relationship to mankind as Savior (this is the first of seven such references); see 8:12 (Light); 10:9 (Door); 10:11 (Good Shepherd); 11:25 (Resurrection); 14:6 (Way, Truth, Life); 15:5 (Vine)

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