Introduction to Why I Believe What I Believe (TMF:312)

Tuesday, January 05, 2016
Peace to Live By: Introduction to Why I Believe What I Believe (TMF:312) - Daniel Litton
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       When people think about life, it is important for them to understand why they believe what they believe. I mean, who wants to go through life just believing what you have come up with inside your mind, through your own thoughts? But this is what many people do. They believe things about life and the unseen world (if they believe in an unseen world) based on what they think—the rules they have developed in their own minds. Even religious people can do this. People who are professing Christians may develop constructs in their thinking about what the Bible means or says about a certain life issue or topic, all the while having never read or really understood what the Bible actually does say about the matter. It is true that I spend a great amount of my own personal time telling people the Good News of Jesus Christ, which comes from the Christian religion as the world sees it—the evangelical sect among others. But why would I do this? Why would I spend so much time, effort, and energy preparing and delivering messages about the Christian God? After all, isn't religion just something that is personal to people, and something that is whatever a person wants to make of it? Or is religion based in reality?