Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: johnw@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Warren) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: How did you become a Christian? Message-ID: Date: 5 Aug 90 22:59:47 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 30 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article cedric@fuzzy.corp.sun.com (Cedric Chin) writes: >I'm curious and would like to know how you became a Christian -- or >what's keeping you from becoming one. > > > >cedric@mariposa.sun.com I was raised Catholic and got all the Christian education implanted when I was growing up, but made a specific decision to have Christ as my master when I got out of high school, after reading a few books by C.S. Lewis. I'm not sure who or what is the object of your curiosity, but I'll continue. The only thing that can keep you from becoming a Christian is the lack of desire to follow Christ. You don't have to believe in inerrancy, you don't have to be righteous or holy (and you don't have to pledge to the Lord that you will try, after you start following Him, to be righteous, since He puts His righteousness in you in response to your faith), you just have to trust in the Lord. He gave you many things to go by: He gave you a book full of promises (which, again I say, you don't have to take the whole thing as true or the whole thing as false -- try starting with the Resurrection and work from there); He put you in a specific situation with its problems and joys; He gave you desires, knee-jerk reactions, loves, your whole psychological and physical makeup; He put certain people in your life. There are many signs and issues and opportunities to follow actively the Lord. I hope this answers your question.