There was a time when I thought that no one had to explain, or even have to understand, why one believes in God, and in Christ Jesus, and in the Holy Spirit. I thought that we’re born, get baptised, go to Sunday School, attend church, and when we grow up, we officially become Christians, and it was that way all over the world.

How wrong I was. And how disappointed to find out that there were people, living, breathing people, who didn’t believe in God at all. That non-belief was odd to me, because it was so obvious, to me at least, that there is a God.

As I read the Bible, and the Holy Spirit opened my heart to God’s Word, there was no way I could even consider Darwin’s theory of evolution, or that there was no God at all. The very notion that our ‘ancestors’ were swamp slime who crawled onto dry ground, and somehow evolved over millions of years into homo sapiens was so obviously the result of a sick mind to me.

It seemed to me that Darwin, his followers, atheists, and those who were non-Christians were being deceived. I was deceived in a way for many years myself, because I thought that going to church was enough. Doing Christian-ish or Christian-approved activities, like praying, reading the Bible, fasting, giving, and being kind, was enough.

All Glory to God, the Holy Spirit didn’t leave me alone. He kept drawing me to Himself and taught me that I had to receive Christ Jesus as my Saviour and Lord. He refined my beliefs and values, and made me realise that Christianity is about knowing God intimately, and growing in the relationship He Himself established.

Being a Christian is not only escaping hell, but is more about spending your whole life here on earth, and all of eternity in God’s presence, and in wonderful communion with Him.

If you want to compare the religions of the world with Christianity, I urge you to listen to Christian apologetics from C. S. Lewis, Dr John Lenox of Oxford University, England, J. Warner Wallace, Chuck Missler and Derek Prince. There are many others, but those are the ones I listen to.

May the Grace of God be with you.