Humble

Humility, or being humble, is the defining characteristic of an unpretentious and modest person, someone who does not think that he or she is better or more important than others. The opposite of humility is pride.

I strive for humility but fail on some many counts. However can I encourage you to approach your investigation of Christianity with that attitude, not thinking you have all the answers. God promises that if you do that he will supply you with his grace, he will help you...

How do you know which one to pick?

I have had a lot of questions over the past few weeks about different religions, beliefs and so on. The question has generally been, there are many sincere people all holding on to their beliefs 100% how do you know which one is true? A muslim, genuinely believes in Islam, a Hindu in the same way, an atheist and so on.

That is a great question. For me it has to come down to the claims and evidence for those claims. How do we know anything is true? If I was to say I was 6ft 10in tall how would you know whether I was telling the truth? Firstly I think you would look at me and know I was telling porkies, however you may get a measure out and test it, you may get me to stand next to someone else who is 6ft 10in and so on. You would test it, you would investigate it, you would examine the evidence and then draw a conclusion. So many people I meet have never investigated what they believe, they put it off saying one day, make a commitment to investigate is the first starting point.

Christianity has some massive claims and really they all centre on the person and work of Jesus Christ. Some of the core claims are;
Jesus is God, the Son of God
Jesus died and rose again 3 days later
Jesus is the promised messiah

There are many more claims, but these are central. Let's face it if this Jesus fellow was killed and then rasied from the dead 3 days later then that is pretty watertight evidence for him being God. I think we can all agree that only God could perform that miracle. One of the strongest pieces of evidences for this is to see the reaction of those closest to Jesus at the time. Everyone disowned Jesus when he was going to be killed, his best mate Peter denied he every knew him. They all sold out, the bible records that they all hid together, they thought this Jesus was a fraud and that the end of their journey had arrived. They went and hid in a room. Jesus then comes back to life, appears to these people and many others at different points and the result is truly amazing, these cowards (they were and so would I have been) were transformed into men who literally went out to die for Christ from then on, they risked their lives to simply tell the news that Jesus was who he claimed to be. They were tortured, beheaded, stoned, beaten and all sorts but nothing stopped them proclaiming this news. What had transformed them from blubbering wrecks into the instigators of the biggest movement this planet has ever seen? You decide that one, I've made up my mind.

Some people say, yeah but the church just fabricated this to make it look that way. These reports are written within 15-20 years of Jesus, other historians who were not Christians have written about this. There is more evidence for what Jesus did and the result than anything else in the ancient world. If people made this up they wouldn't have written that the disciples were cowards, that the empty tomb was found by women, that the LORD was killed on a tree. you know that saying you couldn't make this stuff up, that is true for this. There is just so many clues to this that Miss Marple wouldn't even show up to investigate. You apply this evidence to any court case today and it would be over by the end of the day.

The problem we have is that God demands something from us, you see if what I am telling you is true than it means we owe our lives to God because he made us. That is scary, but let me assure you when you stop running away and start running to it is the most amazing thing. I so want you to meet him...drop me a line georgeosborn@hotmai.com