Answer to a young person

I thought it good to answer on this website to some good questions that someone recently wrote:

I am a young person, who is currently confused. I have not been brought up in a particularly religious household so I do not have a certain religion that I follow, so to speak. I have friends from a variety of religious backgrounds who are all telling me about their own religion. My grandparents are Christians but parents are Pagan.

I was wondering what was it that made you certain there is, as you say an 'Almighty God'. Have you never thought that it is a load of rubbish?

I never really thought this because before doubt could get too deeply entrenched in me, I saw and experienced the power of God in my life. But before this, I carefully considered the evidence that Jesus Christ rose physically from the dead. It is the powerful evidence for THIS that validates everything else in the Christian faith, including the teaching of an Almighty God.

If Jesus really rose from the dead physically, and it is historical fact, then everything else he taught, and especially his ability to keep the written record of his own teaching straight in the future, should be strongly considered as believable.

I do disagree with a large majority of Christian beliefs and I am just trying to explore the different religions.
Why is it that Paganism is frowned upon and almost hidden completely from everyday life, where as Christianity is paraded around? Why is it hushed up, as sex is to young children? Paganism has been around for ages, even
before Christianity, and a lot of Christian celebrations bare uncanny similarity to Pagan celebrations for example Yule and Christmas are very similar.

I don't know where you live but what you say does not apply so much today. Pagans everywhere are parading their beliefs without shame in the supermarkets, in the health food stores, on TV programmes - everywhere.

Historically Christianity has been more respectable and has centuries of influence in western culture but this is under attack. Pagans have tended to keep their religion more to themselves historically as they believe in occult practices such as casting spells and people have considered that witchcraft, if true, is more a force for evil than for good. This belief is based on centuries of experience. The resurgence of witchcraft under belief systems like Wicca has only been a phenomenon of the last few decades and people have not yet had a chance to fully taste the fruit of it, so they might believe it is really quite good after all.

There were times in history where the spiritual power of the gospel overturned the prevailing belief in polytheism and various forms of paganism and witchcraft. In the Middle Ages no doubt the Roman Catholic church violently suppressed the practices of paganism where it had the power to do so and strongly influenced public opinion in a way it is not able to do today.

The truth about something has nothing to do with how popular it is though. Today, ask around, and I think you will find that there are more people in the west who believe in reincarnation than in resurrection and eternal judgment. Th

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