Just a Jesus appreciation post

Once you discover the beauty of Christ you will love him, as he has loved you.

I grew up atheist for 25 years with atheist parents and never read the Bible or went to church. I loved space science and all that jazz, still do, and I used to actually debate Christians in the street thinking "I know best, god could just show me he exists by doing something that would make me believe". I never truly understood my own self.

Much like everyone who discovers Christ, I was going through a hard time that I needed help with. I felt I couldn't speak to anyone and I just went and sat on a bench and spoke to what I thought was "God". It felt good to speak to something else rather than just directly to myself (even though I was on my own). I thought the framing would help me get through it and it did. So I kept doing it,and after a few days I realised well maybe I'm not just talking to myself, maybe there is something listening?

The minute I thought of that *boom* a wave of warmth around my heart like the love of your favourite person and you haven't seen them in ages and then they're right in front of you.

That was it I was absolutely convinced of God. I knew God existed but then I thought "well what has everyone else said about God?".

I started looking into the monotheistic religions Islam, Judaism and Christianity.

Islam has practices that just don't seem to align with me morally but wasn't quite as violent or misogynistic as I thought, but had themes regarding them that morally I can't agree with.

I looked into Judaism and realised I wasn't born Jewish so that made it more difficult, but felt fine up until I discovered the beauty of Christ. This was it. Everything lined up, it made so much sense what he was saying. I couldn't refute what they claimed he said. There seemed to be nothing I admired more than a man who can pray for those who persecute him and forgive rather than retaliate. They seem so true.

This is why I said "once you discover the beauty of Christ you will love him, as he has loved you"