The Answerer

Mostly because that’s how their parents taught them. Until we are older we do not think if ‘my Religion’ is right for me, and stands up to close examination. Later on, some of us – the thinkers, get to examine in our mind if is it a true way of seeing things. Maybe you have just been told, or heard of a ‘New religion’. A thinking person asks themselves: ”Is this new ‘Religion’, a real and better answer to the questions that persist in my mind?”

This is dangerous in some Muslim lands where converting from Islam to Christianity can result in loss of job, being expelled from family and community, or death. I kid you not, people get killed quite often for ‘converting’ to Christianity.

Thinkers are rare in some communities. Most do not like to change, or will not change their ways. It takes time and real effort. I thank God for thinkers. We need ‘em!

There is a question above: “What is the meaning of life?” (172). Such things do not bother most people – they think it is too much trouble and think: “I’ll just wait and see, I’ll take what luck offers and hope for the best.” Well, they live, sleep, drink, have fun and decide not to think about death and what lies beyond death. That’s gambling with the highest stakes I can think of. Moses has been dead – in heaven – with Jesus, for 3,000 years and came back once to be with Jesus. Peter, James and John saw it all. (Matthew Ch.17:verses 1 to 17).

If you asked me: “How come you think Christianity is the true ‘religion’?”, I would ask you to read the gospel of John, or Luke who was a doctor – an educated man. Read it carefully from beginning to the end while sitting by yourself. Then think about who Jesus was, what he did and how come he could do things nobody else has ever done. And is his resurrection from the tomb to life again in three days, exactly as he said he would, true or false? And another question: “After 2,012 years were Jesus and his 12 disciples mad – or is it all true?”

Then compare what you read with the vague and negative ideals of all the other ‘religions’ in the world and see if love, healing of the mind, caring for others and what if everybody followed ‘The ten Commandments?’. What sort of world would we have. A lot depends on what, and how, you think. “God bless.”