I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.
I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.
Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.
After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.
On December 19, 1959, at 830 at night I placed my trust in Christ as Savior and Lord and asked Him to come into my life and forgive me.
As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.
If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
From that foundation, Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire and has continued to exert great influence down through the centuries.
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