Resources on becoming a Christian

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Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane by Heinrich Hofmann.

Below are some resources on becoming a Christian:

Evidence and arguments for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Dr. Simon Greenleaf is often cited in the field of Christian legal apologetics.

See also: Evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is critical to the Christian faith. The Apostle Paul wrote, "if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain" (I Corinthians:15:14).

There is a great amount of compelling evidence from multiple lines of evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ (See: Evidence of the resurrection of Jesus Christ).

Traditionally, Christianity has believed in a physical resurrection of Jesus Christ.[1] The Christian apologist Michael Horner of CRU has an excellent resource which offers a defense of the resurrection of Jesus Christ entitled Did Jesus really rise from the dead?. In addition, Dr. Gary Habermas offers an online audio library which defends the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

In recent history, Dr. Gary Habermas is considered the foremost Christian apologist for defending the resurrection of Jesus.[2][3][4][5][6] Dr. Habermas had a debate against the philosopher Antony Flew regarding the resurrection which was chronicled in the work Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? The Resurrection Debate and the debate had a panel of debate judges. J. Hampton Keathley, III, Th.M. in his essay Evidences for the Resurrection wrote: "The decision of the judges were as follows. The panel of philosophers judging content cast four votes for Habermas who argued for the fact of the resurrection, none for Flew, and one draw. The panel of professional debate judges voted three to two, also in favor of Habermas, this time regarding the method of argumentation technique." [7]

In recent history some notable defenders of the resurrection include: William Lane Craig, Ben Witherington, Lee Strobel, Josh McDowell, Edwin M. Yamauchi, N.T. Wright and Michael Horner.[8][9][10][11][12]

Legal scholars, legal authorities, and eminent lawyers such as Simon Greenleaf, John Warwick Montgomery, Lord Darling, John Singleton Copley, Hugo Grotius, Lord Caldecote, J. N. D. Anderson, Lionel Luckhoo, and many others have asserted that western legal standards argue for the resurrection of Christ.[13][14][15][16][17]

Video Testimonies of Christians

See also: Christian video testimonies

Ex-atheist Lee Strobel

Video Christian testimonies:

Ex-atheists Lee Strobel Christian video testimony:

Video testimony of ex-Muslims:

Tips on choosing a Christian church

Positive personality changes and religious conversion

See also: Conversion and Neuroplasticity and the ability of individuals to change their personality and Typical changeability of the Big Five personality traits

The Big Five personality traits change due to a person becoming more mature, efforts to change the personality traits or a major life change (See: Neuroplasticity and the ability of individuals to change their personality).

Personality changes due to religious conversion:

“ Religious conversion is one of the life events most strongly associated with personality change, because it often reshapes someone’s identity, daily habits, values, and social world. But the magnitude of change is usually not unlimited—it tends to be moderate rather than extreme, and uneven across the Big Five traits.

Average change: Studies suggest that religious conversion or increased religiosity is associated with about 0.3 to 0.7 standard deviations of change in certain traits over time.

Maximum documented change: In rare, profound cases (e.g., dramatic “born-again” conversions or entry into highly structured religious orders), people can shift by 1+ standard deviation on some traits, but that’s exceptional.[18]

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"A bell curve, also known as a normal distribution, is a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of data in statistics. Standard deviations measure the spread or dispersion of data points around the mean (average) of a normal distribution. In a normal distribution, roughly 68% of the data falls within one standard deviation of the mean, 95% within two standard deviations, and 99.7% within three standard deviations."[19]

There is a significant amount of historical and scientific evidence that Bible reading has greatly increased human flourishing such as people's physical health, psychological well-being, character and virtue, and social connections (See: Bible reading and human flourishing).

Books on being a disciple of Jesus Christ

  • The Complete Book of Discipleship: On Being and Making Followers of Christ by Bill Hull. ‎NavPress; Annotated edition (November 6, 2006)
  • The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges. NavPress; Enlarged edition (November 3, 2016)
  • The Practice of Godliness by Jerry Bridges. NavPress (June 1, 2016)

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/crj0056a.txt
  2. ↑ http://www.garyhabermas.com/articles/dialog_rexperience/dialog_rexperiences.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.tektonics.org/books/lichabrvw.html
  4. ↑ http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/Ted_Hildebrandt/NTeSources/NTArticles/CTR-NT/Habermas-Resurrection2-CTR.pdf
  5. ↑ http://www.garyhabermas.com/articles/crj_explainingaway/crj_explainingaway.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.apologetics.com/default.jsp?bodycontent=/articles/historical_apologetics/habermas-nt.html
  7. ↑ http://www.bible.org/page.asp?page_id=639
  8. ↑ http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/menus/historical.html
  9. ↑ http://www.leaderu.com/everystudent/easter/articles/josh2.html
  10. ↑ http://www.leaderu.com/everystudent/easter/articles/yama.html
  11. ↑ http://www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Early_Traditions.htm
  12. ↑ http://powertochange.com/discover/faith/jesusrose1/
  13. ↑ http://www.bibleteacher.org/sgtestimony.htm
  14. ↑ http://www.mtio.com/articles/bissart1.htm
  15. ↑ http://www.ankerberg.com/Articles/apologetics/AP0302W3.htm
  16. ↑ http://lawreligionculturereview.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_lawreligionculturereview_archive.html
  17. ↑ http://www.trinitysem.edu/journal/philjohnsonpap.html
  18. ↑ How big of personality changes are possible via religious conversion?
  19. ↑ Normal bell curve and standard deviations
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