Adrian's Christian Page

I know it's weird that I, a nominally rational person who (according to the Oxford University Maths Department) knows his way around basic logic, would ever consider being associated with the known fruitcakes who are Christians, but there you are. Nutty and full of cherries as charged, yer Honour.

I lose track of the different flavours of Christianity going around; I got baptised in the evangelical St. Aldate's Church in Oxford, my church in Bath was Walcot Methodist, the one I attended in East Hanover was Kitchell Memorial Presbyterian and I currently go to the Andover BaptistCchurch. Cosmopolitan, n'est ce pas? Anyway, the important things are the same. I believe in the God of the Old and New Testaments in the Bible, that His son Jesus died on a cross for me and all mankind, and that He rose from death after three days. I believe that God hears and answers prayers to Him. I believe in the eternal life after earthly death, and that we can't earn this life by whatever we do but that God grants it to us by His grace.

If you wish to take apart these beliefs with carefully reasoned argument, you are more than welcome. If my faith falls at the first challenge, it isn't worth having. But it's been challenged time and again over the six years that I've been a Christian, and it's as firm as ever. God has worked in my life, and although I'm very far from a perfect man I believe that the good in my life and in me has come from him. I'm grateful.

Oh, and don't confuse the followers with the Deity. Some pretty awful things have been done by professed "Christians" in the past, I'd be first to admit. Some may have even believed that they were doing what would please God. But to err is human. Jesus stated that the most important Commandments were to love God with all one's heart, soul, mind and strength, and to love your neighbour. Anyone got a problem with that?


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