Do you know why you are not a Christian?

If you are not a Christian I only ask that you take a few minutes to seriously consider why. Christians are always being scoffed at for their "blind faith," yet I know far more Christians with good reasons for their faith than non-Christians with good reasons for theirs. All people believe something - so why do you believe what you believe? The question is of maximum importance - for nothing in this life is worth spending forever suffering in hell apart from God. There are a lot of bad reasons given for why people should believe what Christianity teaches, and even more for why they should not. But while a bad argument for Christianity that is accepted might produce an ignorant Christian, a bad argument against Christianity that is accepted will send someone to hell.

I was not raised to be a Christian. I was a skeptic and heard a lot of people tell me I had to believe in this or that or I'd go to hell and it all sounded pretty stupid to me. Most Christians only confirmed that initial hypothesis by their inability to answer even my most basic questions about why I should believe in Christianity. Most. Some, however, did answer my questions, and one day I found myself unable to come up with good reasons not to believe in Christianity. I still didn't jump right in, but I at last came to see that the real issue was my will, not my intellect.

That's why I created this website - for the skeptic, the seeker, and the saved. This website is devoted not only to what Christianity teaches, but also to giving reasons to believe that those teachings are true. That's what the first section of the Main Menu is all about. Beyond that are other articles on topics related to Christianity that may not be all that interesting to someone who is not a Christian.

Do you think that maybe you are good enough already?

Maybe you don't think this whole Christianity thing is a problem for you because you are a good person (don't worry, most people do!). That's what I thought. I wasn't a particularly bad person - I didn't do drugs, get drunk, sleep around, murder, or rape. IN fact, I did not think the Christians were much better than me. And, unlike them, I didn't need Jesus in order to be like this. If Christians were so weak that they needed religion to get themselves up to my level, fine for them. But I thought I was doing fine just as I was. If you would have asked me, I would have said I was a good person.

But of course, "good" is a comparative term. For a thing to be good or bad requires some standard for comparison. By what standard do people consider themselves good? Usually only what makes them better than the worst of humanity. But should that qualify as "good"? Just for kicks, let's look at God's standard. Unfortunately for us, His standard is Himself - perfection, in other words (Mt. 5:48). God considers not only murder and rape sin, but also lying (even "white" lies), stealing (any amount will do), lust (which Jesus said was spiritual adultery), unrighteous anger (which Jesus said was spiritual murder) . . . and these don't even cover all of the ten commandments! So now how are you doing? Yeah, me too.

If God used perfection as the standard of good and bad, and only good people made it to heaven, would you make it? No, you would not. No one would. Now, God does not desire that anyone spend eternity apart from Him, but He has to put all the evil somewhere, so He created hell. And, as a perfectly just judge, God will not allow any bad to go unpunished or to corrupt heaven. But, as a perfectly merciful judge, He also paid the penalty for us in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus died on the cross, was buried, and rose again three days later and appeared to many people proving that He had the power of life over death and sin. And if you put your trust in His work you will be saved from your just punishment in hell, and gain the reward of heaven (1 Cor. 15:1-5).

How do you think you should you make your decision?

Of course, if all this Christianity stuff isn't true then it doesn't really matter right? Right, so what would be the most rational response to Christianity's claims? To simply test them. Christianity, unlike almost all other religions, has made claims that are testable - it's not just a collection of proverbs or a life philosophy. If you read the whole chapter of 1 Corinthians 15 (quoted above) you will see that if Christ did not rise from the dead the whole thing is sham. How many other religions open themselves up to this kind of criticism? Only one that can be proved true would be so audacious.

I hope that you will be honest enough to look into these claims and the evidence provided for them. The brilliant mathematician Blaise Pascal made the interesting observation that there are only four possibilities: either one believes in Christianity or one does not, and either Christianity is true or it is not. If Christianity is false, no big deal either way - you'll end up reincarnated or simply disappear or something. But if Christianity is true, then you have everything to gain if you believe and everything to lose if you do not. It is thus well worth your time to look into it.